
Visitors will enter the “Area del Futuro” (Area of the Future) and follow an immersive route that leads to a vast indoor hydroponic vegetable garden. Here, anybody can choose to plant seeds in a hydroponic tank, and monitor their growth. In fact, the “Area del Futuro” is designed in such a way as to highlight the whole sequence of the maturation process. The hydroponic tank itself slides fluidly throughout the farm as if on a conveyer belt, exhibiting the many stages of plant growth.


Area del Futuro (Area of the Future), Bologna
Program: pavilion
Design: Carlo Ratti Associati
CRA team: Carlo Ratti, Giovanni de Niederhausern, Andrea Galanti, Chiara Borghi, Valentina Grasso, Emanuele Protti, Andrea Riva, Gary di Silvio, Alberto Bottero
Client: FICO Eataly World
Year: 2016

For a new ecology of living
Ada Bursi’s legacy is transformed into an exam project of the two-year Interior Design specialist program at IED Turin, unfolding a narrative on contemporary living, between ecology, spatial flexibility, and social awareness.