“SubZero”, or Floriade 2022 Fertile Ground
The Innovation Workshop SUBZERO PAVILION, designed by DoepelStrijkers, is a landmark building on the Floriade Almere 2022. It will be the first building on world exhibition. Terrain where students, businesses and knowledge institutions develop crossover innovations around the themes of nutrition, health and wellbeing. During the Floriade 2022, the Innovation Workshop will function as the Flevoland Pavilion. Here visitors can see and experience the innovations that have been developed in the period leading up to the Floriade.
The design embodies the story of the “making of” Flevoland, the largest polder in the Netherlands. What once was water is now fertile ground where people live and work on an average of five meters below sea-level (NAP). The innovative strength of this former Zuiderzee project is still felt in Flevoland. It even called one of the seven wonders of the modern world.
Innovative water management, sustainable energy and food production form part of its DNA. The Innovation Workshop portrays this in a unique way. A five-meter thick layer of fertile soil is lifted up to the NAP-line, hence the name SubZero. Hence, the lowest level of the building will be five meters below sea level-just like the majority of land in Flevoland, while the roof will function as an elevated winter garden. Hence the name of the pavilion – “Below Zero” (“Sub Zero”).
Contrasting the lower section, the upper walls and roof will be built from earth and include a greenhouse. The space underneath is enclosed by a reflective façade creating the illusion that the mass floats effortlessly above the ground. The dominant height levels of Flevoland are visible in the pavilion and an orchard on top of the building symbolizes its fertile soil.
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