NYC-based firm Biber Architects have unveiled their design for "American Food 2.0," the US Pavilion at the Milan World Expo 2015. The feast of culinary-themed delights includes a vertical farm, a boardwalk, rooftop gardens, and parking spots for regional food trucks. Riffing off of the Expo theme of “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life," the pavilion has been christened “American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet,” and presents itself as an open, barn-inspired structure with an airplane hangar-sized door. The exhibition spaces housed within are meant to educate visitors. Like most of the pavilions in Milan, the US structure will feature ecological elements including a harvestable vertical farm, rainwater irrigation system, and photovoltaic panels. The vertical farm is a hydroponic facade that runs the length of the pavilion. It will grow crops that will be a spectacle themselves, exposing the often hidden process of farming. The pavilion will also be alive with an acrobatic performance harvest, where aerial performers will act out the harvest. The wall is a “didactic display talking about the past, present and future of the American farm and the American diet,” said founder and principle of Biber Architects, James Biber. {% ...
NYC-based firm Biber Architects have unveiled their design for "American Food 2.0," the US Pavilion at the Milan World Expo 2015. The feast of culinary-themed delights includes a vertical farm, a boardwalk, rooftop gardens, and parking spots for regional food trucks. Riffing off of the Expo theme of “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life," the pavilion has been christened “American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet,” and presents itself as an open, barn-inspired structure with an airplane hangar-sized door. The exhibition spaces housed within are meant to educate visitors. Like most of the pavilions in Milan, the US structure will feature ecological elements including a harvestable vertical farm, rainwater irrigation system, and photovoltaic panels. The vertical farm is a hydroponic facade that runs the length of the pavilion. It will grow crops that will be a spectacle themselves, exposing the often hidden process of farming. The pavilion will also be alive with an acrobatic performance harvest, where aerial performers will act out the harvest. The wall is a “didactic display talking about the past, present and future of the American farm and the American diet,” said founder and principle of Biber Architects, James Biber. {% ...