Vertical agriculture

The Barilla Pavilion is conceived as a multi-level stage where agriculture and visitors interact in a dynamic exchange. Inspired by both nature and industrial production, the design elevates fields into stacked planes, creating a vertical journey through open-air crops, greenhouses, and exhibition spaces. By revealing the hidden processes of food production, the pavilion breaks away from traditional industrial architecture, exposing the relationship between people, machines, and raw materials. Visitors experience crops and cultivation at multiple levels, navigating through vertically stacked thin slabs designed to accommodate various soil depths. This light, open structure fosters a three-dimensional exploration, seamlessly connecting each... More