Green and Amazing Structure Milan Expo 2015

Centred on the theme- Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life is currently happening in Milan Italy.

I had the golden opportunity to visit the Expo and see some of the extravagant marvels.

Created by British artist Wolfgang Buttress and Engineer Tristan Simmonds for the British Pavilion, The Hive is one of my top favourite as it showcases an enormous space inspired by the apiarian lifecycle and role that bees play in the ecosystem. It is also one of the few pavilions that will be reused, rather than demolished, after the Expo.

Made out of 169,300 aluminum and steel pieces that form a 14 meter cubed (494 cubic feet) honeycomb structure, that is situated at the edge of a planned, pollinator-friendly wildflower meadow, the installation allows visitors to walk into its open, globular core, on top of a glass platform.

Bee sounds play as recorded from a study at Nottingham Trent University that investigated the health of bee colonies.  These are played to give visitors an approximate sense of what it is like to be a bee. The level of brightness of the structure network of LED lights are interactively linked to the level of activity in a hive back in Nottingham, so visitors can literally sense the aliveness of a real beehive.

Amazing, Green and Worth Seeing