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French Pavilion / XTU architects

  • 16 May2016
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Architects: XTU architects
Location:Ingresso EXpo, Milano, Italy
Design Team: Nicolas Senemaud, William Bianchi, Stefania Maccagnan, Gaelle Le Borgne
Partners: Atelien Architecture(Architects),Studio Adeline Rispal (Exhibition Designers), Innovision (Multimedia), Licht Kunst Licht (Lighting Designers), Grontmij (Engineering), Oasiis (Environmental Technology and Engineering), Agence Laverne Paysagistes (Landscapers), Viasonora (Sound Designers), BECP(Kitchen Designers), Chevalvert (Graphic Designers), Lordculture(Cultural Engineering), Les Films d’Ici(Film Production)
Type: Culture, Exhibition
Project Year:2013-2015

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France is a major agricultural country. Geology has endowed it with an abundant array of terroirs and it boasts a deep-rooted genealogical heritage that thas given rise to cultural and gastronomical traditions celebrated throughout the world. The French Pavilion conveys this productive diversity with a new twist on the iconic covered market through shapes that simultaneously echo the territory and “pieces” of the landscape.
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1 A territory building
How do you symbolize France’s identity when it comes to food?
How has consumption and production changed?
How do you showcase innovations from France?
1.1 The market archetype
The architects began by talking with agriculture experts and sociologists, which gave them an image of France’s food identity as a product of its amazing geological and genealogical diversity. These natural resources shaped the peaks and valleys, the climate regions, the way people use the land, the varied cultures and products – and its superb cuisine.
The contest specifications referenced the Halles de Baltard market, a landmark of production and consumption, a timeless confluence of all the links in the agri-food chain. XTU galvanized the idea of a covered market as the crossroads where all foods meet and decided to produce what it considers the archetypal market: free-standing spaces sheltered under one huge roof.
1.2 A built landscape
“France symbolizes a cultural wonder, industrial know-how, the good life,” reflects architect Anouk Legendre.”That is what we wanted to show the world by inventing a ‘built landscape’ that all at once portrays the geographic diversity of France’s regions, its unique agricultural offerings and culinary traditions.’ When asked about the them “Feeding the planet, energy for life,” XTU says, “Terrain as fertile ground for the new food revolution,” with a building that stands for the promise of France’ regions.
The pavilion, inspired by France’s hexagonal shape, seems to have been pushed up here and there by tectonic shifts.
This “built landscape” has sidled into the “market” on the underside of the ceiling, the only part crowds will see as they stream into the 2,000 m2 space. Contorted by reminiscent ripples, the “landscape ceiling” casts a striking feature that abstractly depicts the wide breadth of France’s terroirs. That is what introduces the scientific content staged by Adeline Rispal’s exhibition design.
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2 The structural principle
2.2 Upside-down
Eager to lure in visitors, the architects engineered a full-immersion approach to the stagecraft by pushing the “pull factor”. The “territory building” invites people from the outside to embark on a journey inside. Once past the pavilion’s doors, visitors are plunged into the upside-down world of the hilly countryside. Tree-like pillars support the “lived-in roof” that frames the spaces, functional areas and pathways; the ground floor houses the exhibit booths, an actual market and partner zones. Unlike conventional covered markets where products are displayed in stalls, the staged version features a variety of themes the pavilion covers in chambers created by the structure.
These “vaults of plenty” serve up a menu of offering like regional specialties, delicacy tastings scientific and biotechnological research, agro-ecology, new agri-food technologies, genetic discoveries,life chemistry and beneficial flora.
The next floor hosts offices and VIP rooms. The top floor is a restaurant.
2.2Free forms
The glue-laminated structure is completely made of French wood: the interior in spruce and the exterior in larch.
Every building element – from the main and supporting structures and ceiling to the floorboards and facades – is made of interlocked pieces forming a single unified edifice that simultaneously outlines the exterior casing and the simultaneously outlines the exterior casing and the interior expanse. The carpenters Simonin used a super-high precision digitally controlled robot to cut out every angle of the framework with the architecture software. The main structure is made of lattice girders and pillars spaced at 4.5m and braced by a supporting framework slotted in every 1.5m.
The result is a series of highly uniform rightangle cubicles. The project is ground-breaking because this orthogonal frame is “cragged”(notched) into uneven shapes called “frees” that create a stunning vault-like effect. The complex geometry of the French Pavilion’s framework creates a roller coaster of curves that demonstrates wood’s ability to mould into unexpected organic contours. Beyond its dramatic form, this marquee is a showcase for French innovation in wood architecture using invisible fastening systems patented by Resix.
2.3 A low-tech green structure
The French Pavilion adopted a low – tech approach, so the entire building can be taken apart and put back together. With its cross-ventilation and the central clerestory designed for its heat extraction process, the “landscape market” will be naturally ventilated and cooled down, making it a low-energy consumption building.
WA: How does your pavilion design respond to the them of the Expo – Feeding the Planet?
XTU: Regarding the them of the Exhibition, it was an obvious fact to choose wood as the main material. Compared with other structural materials, wood is the most environment-friendly. The glue-laminated structure is completely made of French wood: the interior in spruce and the exterior in larch. The main structure is made of lattice girders andpillars. The result is a series of highly uniform right-angle cubicles. The pavilion makes a reference to the diversity of regions and French identities. The shape of the building follows the diverse geographical topology of the country – its hills, the mountains, the valley.
Inside, a big market, inspired by the “Les Halles de marche Baltard”, is set in the form of a ceiling with an inverted landscape, indicating a scenography around French products and agricultural wealth.
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WA: What is the most creative and attractive tectonic design in your pavilion project?
XTU: Two main challenges were: how to have the invisible fixations: solved by the use of the patent (certificate) Resix – and, how to have a continuous shape with “plastic artistic effect” – the cutting (division) “slice curve” of the subface of beams, as solved by the use of robots of cutting.
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Comments
CHEN Haoru: A wooden gird structure planted with vegetables, herbs and hops, as if entering Salvador Dali’s surrealist world. Anouk Lengendre and Nicolas Desmazieres show the way to present the transformation process of farmer’s market. The structure form a new irregular geometry reminiscent of vaves or organic forms. Combined with the use of natural materials, this building became almost an artwork of land scape, clearly expresses relationships between agriculture and nature, and formed a cohesive market atmosphere. The external part appears to have three levels, on inside it is only one level of continuous high cave space, a gesture that is thought-provoking.
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YU Chunshui: Architects’ temperate concepts reflect their clear logic as well as the integrity of design and planning. Through a built landscape with fruit trees and vegetables from France, visitors reach the main building for landscape architecture and come into the exhibition hall spontaneously. The design absolutely follows the route and the feelings of the visitors. A big upside-down form inspired by the “Les Halles de marche” market, the glue-laminated structure and the interlocked pieces forming of woods, all give a strong sense of the purity of the design. A huge continuous free space of upside-down building looks like the peaks and valleys, and the towering trees of France. French food products and ingredients, seasonings, cookware and digital screens are all inlaid and huge up in unit grids of wood structures, integrated exhibition with building. “Form follows function”.
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Nzingha Prescod: 'Yes, there are black fencers'


Nzingha Prescod, olympics, fencing, featured in the Body Issue 2016: Fully Exposed on ESPN the Magazine
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"I'm so proud of how hard I've worked for this body. It's the most genuine display of my dedication. I hope my feature encourages women everywhere to embrace muscles and strength and to love their bodies."
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U.S. fencer Nzingha Prescod is 23 years old and preparing for her second Olympics. Thing is, that might not even be the most impressive thing about her. Prescod sat down with the Body Issue's Morty Ain and talked about how she got into the sport and what it's taken to reach the top.

Yes, there are black fencers.
Yes, fencing is a "real" sport and requires you to be very athletic. I feel like there's this myth that it's just something you see in movies. But it's not. It's really fast-paced and high-energy, and you have to be really athletic and able to change directions and change speeds. It requires a lot of control and endurance.
People come up to me and ask, "Is that hard?" That's a question I get a lot: "Is it hard?" I'm like, "It's really hard" [laughs].
You live up to who you're told you are. I'm named after a 17th-century queen from Angola, Nzinga Mbande. During the colonial period, the Europeans would try to come to Africa and take their land, and she defended her territory. I think it's not a coincidence that I'm named Nzingha and I go off with my sword and fight people for my country. I was always told that I'm a strong woman, and I was named after a strong woman, and I think it's not a coincidence that I've become this top fencer.
I think I fell in love with fencing because you never do the same thing twice. No one touch is going to be the same. It's not like you're swimming the same 100 meters every single day at practice. You're always trying new things and making things happen. It's never boring because no one is perfect at it -- someone is always going to get hit. You could fence the same person every day and it's always going to be different.
My boobs get in the way a lot when I'm working out. When I was younger, I didn't know how to deal with them. I would always run with my hands a little bit under my boobs so they wouldn't move as much and I ended up looking really funny. My coach would make fun of me; he had to get someone to teach me how to run. But I knew how to run, I just felt uncomfortable with these things. They are just heavy and a lot of extra weight. But I do feel very comfortable putting my fencing stuff on because I get to hide them. I don't have to worry about them moving around. I'm really glad that I do a sport where I'm so covered, otherwise I'd be really self-conscious.
At the Olympics, I get asked a lot, "Oh, what track event are you?" "Fencing." "Oh, I thought you did track." I guess because our quads are very similar to track quads. Fencing is a quad-dominant sport.
I think of fencing as part calculating and part doing. It's very mental. When Plan A doesn't work, you have to be ready to shift quickly to Plan B, C, D, E. People call it physical chess, but that's a corny analogy; I hate when people say that.
Fencing is basically being able to capitalize on someone else's mistake. I talk to myself a lot when I'm fencing -- to be confident, to be strong, just giving myself encouragement. With my psychotherapist, we work on avoiding thoughts that make you hesitate. Hesitating in fencing is not going to work.
On the subway, I get a lot of stares, so I try to avoid eye contact. Growing up in Brooklyn, I'd be taking the train with my fencing gear, and people would be staring at me like, "What are you doing?" People would always ask me, "What are you doing with that?" ... that kind of thing. Now I get more, "Oh, you fence? That's awesome! Keep it up."
This was my mom's bright idea. I started fencing when I was 9 at the Peter Westbrook Foundation. I started with my sister, my best friend and one other girl. Fencing is usually pretty exclusive because it's so expensive, and Peter started the foundation to make fencing more accessible to minorities. I was doing ballet and gymnastics and tennis, swimming, karate, all these sports. But the amount of resources that the foundation had and could offer was so much more, so this was the clear path for me and my sister.
I think I fell in love with fencing because you never do the same thing twice. You could fence the same person every day and it's always going to be different.
Nzingha Prescod
This is an opportunity to be special. That was my thinking going to practice all the time: "This is a privilege, and I'm going to take advantage of this privilege." With other people, it might have felt very normal to them to do an after-school activity like fencing, but it wasn't normal for me, it was amazing.
I think I was born to be an athlete. I was pretty good at tennis. My coach would call me and my sister Serena and Venus. I feel like tennis would have been a sport I would have pursued if I had the right resources. But with fencing I got the whole package.
Except I'm really bad at basketball. I used to think I could do anything, but no, no basketball for me. I don't even want to try -- I'll just make myself upset. I'm really not good at catching either. I just have butterfingers.
I wouldn't say I've dealt with any overt prejudice. But my first couple World Cups I was definitely the only black girl in the competition and that would make me feel weird. I don't remember people being prejudiced toward me, but I know that when we traveled to these tiny towns in Germany, with me and my mom, people would stare at me. I remember that being kind of discouraging. In New York you have a sprinkle of everything, but you go to Europe and everyone is white. And then you get to the competition and everyone is still white. That was new to me. But I didn't let that bother me, it's just something I noticed. I remember getting on that strip and being very eager to win that bout, and I'm sure that feeling of being the only one gave me some fuel.

Fencing gives you really athletic legs. That's probably my best feature. When you fence, you are primarily using the front of your legs, so any time I'm working out, I try to hit the back to even it out. That's why I do a lot of dead lifts, because it's for your glutes and your hamstrings. People tell me I have nice legs, but they're just a little bulky because there's so much muscle in them.
Pants are the worst. I don't wear jeans. First of all, my waist is so small. This is the problem with all clothes I have: My boobs are kind of big, so I'm a 38 on the bust and a 28 waist and I'm a 38 in the hips. People don't understand my struggle.
I do like my curves. I just don't think they make clothes to fit my proportions.
Fencing is really asymmetrical -- you develop your right side way more than your left side. So if you see a fencer who is right-handed, they'll have bigger right legs than left legs. I'm pretty even because I cross-train a lot. But it's very asymmetrical. I really have to take care of being stable and not being imbalanced because that just causes injury.
A lot of black girls look up to me, and I want to make them proud. -- Nzingha Prescod
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"A lot of black girls look up to me, and I want to make them proud." -- Nzingha Prescod
My physical therapist wants to salsa with me. Salsa is very rhythmic, kind of like fencing. You kind of move on a linear plane and there's a lot of change of direction. It's very fluid like fencing, and he thinks it would be a good complement to training.
I can jump rope through my arms. I'm double-jointed and have really flexible shoulders. I actually think it helps with being able to reach people. I'm only 5-4, but I have pretty long limbs for my size.
My length and power are pretty unmatched. I was so flexible from all these years of ballet and gymnastics. My length was probably my biggest asset growing up.
They are going to put a plug in my hip after the Olympics, that's the plan. I had a labrum tear. All these years of long lunges was just eating away at my hip, and I was feeling this pain. Not even lunging -- just picking my leg up to step forward and advance was hurting. I had surgery a year and a half ago, but I didn't fix the cartilage defect in my right hip. They said they could put a plug in my hip and it would take a year and a half to recover, but that would have overlapped with the Olympic qualifying season. So I'm dealing a lot with how to manage that. It's a little worrisome. It makes it hard to lunge, and it makes it hard to retreat. It will even hurt to walk on it.
Everyone has some kind of issue, and this is my issue. If I were to focus on [my hip problem] I wouldn't win any bouts. So I have to push myself to take care of it when I can.
Losing motivates me. When I'm tired and don't want to practice or fence anymore, I think of my competitors and what they are doing in their practice. "I bet she's not taking a break right now."
A lot of black girls look up to me, and I want to make them proud. I want to show them that they can do this and give them a platform to achieve. Erinn Smart [a black fencer who won a silver medal at the 2008 Games] has done that for me. I don't know without her what I would be doing. She made it very clear that this was possible. I saw her have success when she was training and competing, so I knew what I was working toward was achievable.
I was 19 in my first Olympics. Fencers I was going against had been around way longer. Sometimes it felt overwhelming. Am I going to be able to do this? That thought would run through my mind a lot. But once I actually passed that threshold of making the podium, it gave me some confidence that I could beat the best people in the world. Being able to maintain that confidence is what I'm working on. Even if I have a bad bout, just step up to it again and be like, "OK, I've done this before, I can do it again."

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