Expansion of the "Essen Fairgrounds"

Essen, Alemania
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
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© Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
© Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Mario Bellini Archive
Foto © Messe Essen GmbH
Arquitectos
Mario Bellini Architects
Año
2001
Cliente
Messe Essen GmbH
Equipo
Mario Bellini with Loretto Buti and Carlo Malnati, Collaborators: Giulio Castegini, Antonio Borghi, Reinhold Wuttke, Giovanni Pigni, Alexandra Von Geyso, Mio Shibuya, Marco Piccione, Luca Rossi, Matteo Bulli, Egle De Luca
General Contractors
Phillipp Holzmann AG, Stahlbau Queck, CLaus Queck GmbH
Photovoltaic system
Flabeg Solar Int. GmbH
Structural Engineers
ARUP GmbH
Local architect
HHS Planer+Arch. BDA
Kassel Landscape
LAND Srl, Milan/Duisburg
M&E Services
Gertec GmbH

International competition: Winning Project.

After doing the Milan Fairgrounds, Bellini was called to realise a project to add on the Essen Fairgrounds.
The new pavilion, an extension of the city’s historical fairgrounds, recalls – albeit with different formal results – some themes which Bellini had already explored in past projects.
The project is safe, it solves the functional and distributive issues and thus concentrates on emphasising the values of the places suggested by functional programme: paths, large coverings and definition of the exterior of the building.
The roofing of the pavilion is surprising, inside, for its size and for the theatrical effect created.
A glass gallery with vaguely semi-circular sections leads visitors into the pavilion and the exterior covering of coloured cement defines the façades.
The dialogue with the city comes at the only possible point: a semicircular “nose” faces out onto the street accompanied by a long tail characterised by the design of the windows and by the variously inclined septums that support its movement.

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