The pavilion is built out of white prefabricated concrete panels and is conceived to be moved to Bahrain at the end of the Expo in order to serve as a botanical garden that will reconnect the local and international audiences in Bahrain with the often overlooked agricultural heritage of the Islands.
The prefabricated components of the buildings, visible through the seams that connect them to one another, refer to the inherent shapes found in the archaeology of Bahrain.
Bahrain Pavilion, “Archaeologies of Green”, Expo Milano 2015
Architects: Anne Holtrop
Landscape architecture: Anouk Vogel
Project engineering: SCE projects, BREED Engineering and Mario Monotti Engineering
Contractor: Restaura SAL
Client: Bahrain Culture Authority
Brass work: Marzorati Ronchetti
Prefabricated concrete panels: Magnetti
Lighting: Viabizzuno