The Milan Expo 2015 is still quite far away. But perhaps with sharing proposals for the international pavilions, we can get a hint of what each country has in store for Expo 2015.

Our latest one comes from Brazilian firm ATRIA Arquitectos + tiarstudio based in Italy. The team recently won second place in the competition to design the Brazilian Pavilion.

Check out their project below.

Project description:

"Projecting the Brazilian Pavilion in the Expo 2015 was a twofold challenge for our team – it meant both the responsibility to design a building that came up to the resumption of Brazil’s participation on international events of such importance and the understanding that this contest affords one of the unique and valuable historical moments in which the architecture can exercise in such a thriving way its humanist role, stimulating the society through new concepts and ideas."

"The brazilian pavilion may be the concretization of the jovial role that our country plays in the international scenario and of the exemplary respect which brazilians pay to the most diversified cultures. Overall, the pavilion’s construction is intended to be a lesson of humility and governance and to use the creativity and skills of our people as a paradigm capable of supporting the new changes that the world demands."

"The projects concept is based on the balance between different requirements, for it seemed essential to us respond to the challenge of harmonizing architectural beauty and functional simplicity, high technical demand and reasonable execution cost, environmental thermal control and energy costs of the building."

"Therefore, grounded on the rationale of compensations, the pavilion’s project will culminate in an object build of moderate urban presence, exalted technical adequacy, aligned to its civil function, accurate according to the programme’s demands, but also alert to the obligation of being attractive, friendly  to the visitors and visually stimulating."

"The setbacks in the volumetric composition create internal areas to be used at social gathering and events. The biggest of these areas, called 'Piazza Brasil', is surrounded by two other resting zones. It is also possible to observe the pergola spaces that work as channels of cross circulation."

"Another important aspect of the project is the combination between external and internal expositive areas, which contribute to create an entertaining and educational environment (edutainment). This variation of  closed and open areas, balconies, creates an innovative spacial relationship, allowing the visitor to go into diverse and stimulating environments, all well illuminated and ventilated."

Team: 
Gustavo Costa (ATRIA) 
Federico Florena (tiarstudio) 
Danilo Fontes (ATRIA) 
Larissa Sudbrack (ATRIA) 
Matheus Mendes (ATRIA)  
Rafaella Brasileiro (ATRIA)  
Antonello de Leo (tiarstudio)

Images courtesy of tiarstudio.

Click the thumbnails below for project drawings.