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Defining an entire nation in a single building, especially one as complex and contradictory as the US, is a daunting task. Expo Milano 2015 is themed ?Feed the Planet, Energy for Life? ? an entire Expo focused on the issues of global food security and the impacts of our personal food choices.
Courtesy of Biber Architects – Photographs : Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
The USA Pavilion for Expo Milano showcases America?s unique role in the future of food and hosts a global conversation about the challenge of feeding more than 9 billion people by 2050. ?American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet? tells America?s food story ? one of innovation, diversity and entrepreneurship ? through topics including food security and policy, international relations, science and technology, nutrition and health, and culinary culture. Courtesy of Biber Architects – Photographs : Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
The pavilion participates in the conversation by acting as a scaffolding for ideas, and by embracing and displaying some very American hybridization : analog and digital, natural and technological, innovative and recycled. On the extremely long and narrow site, defined by the unusually urbane master plan, the pavilion is bounded by an analog wall (containing elevators, escalators, stairs, mechanical shafts, etc.) ; a purely digital roof (glazed in SPD Smart Glass that instantly switches from clear to opaque to respond to envir...