Latvia Expo
Expo Pavillion
Location: Milano, Italy
Client: Ministry of Economics
Size: 850 m2
Year: 2013
Status: Competition
Team: Emīls Rode, Pēteris Bajārs, Klāvs Sedlenieks, Voldemārs Dūdums, Brigita Stroda, Rita Ruduša, Germans Ermičs, Klinta Āze, Tālis Laizāns, Līga Vanaga, Ausma Ķibilde, Leonards Kalniņš, Katerina Smirnova, Mārtiņš Smilts, Ilze Rukšāne
Feeding the planet, energy for life - those are the keywords of international exhibition EXPO 2015 in Milano. Latvia choosed to present Apiary of Life. In our proposal that meant to build entire pavilion using five thousand bee hives. The pavilion's shape is stylized map of Latvia, but inner organization represents our mountains and valleys, leading the visitor through fields of wild flower, making zig zags and collecting pollen, i.e. information about our country and it's eco system.
