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Designed under the theme “The Land of Hope” China’s pavilion for Milan is an ethereal, scaled structure that gives the impression of wind blowing across fields of grass: an aura difficult to achieve in a built structure.
Chinese architects Yichen Lu and Qinwen Cai, and American Kenneth Namkung have joined forces with researchers from Tsinghua University to create the structure. They have rejected the usual notion of the pavilion as an object in a plaza and instead designed the space as a cloud floating over the “field of hope.”