X-TU DESIGNS LATTICED FERTILE MARKET FOR FRENCH

PAVILION
Paris-based X-TU has envisioned a more cohesive, sustainable market
where food is not only grown and harvested, but sold and consumed on
the spot. Serving as the French pavilion for the 2015 Milan Expo, X-TU’s
competition-winning scheme will celebrate the coun try’s “rich genetic
heritage” and future in innovative food production with a timber “fertile
market” that supports the growth of the produce it sells.
Within the vaulted halls of the market, herbs, vegetable and hops will take
over the wooden lattice structure.
On the ground floor, visitors will walk through a living exhibition of
France’s food production, before heading upstairs to a terraced restaurant
that serves the pavilion’s fresh produce.