Downtown
Fields of Tomorrow
This is the heart of the Israel Pavilion, a functioning prototype that is unique in the world: a vertical cultivated field (12 meters high by 70 long) with over 100 thousand plants of wheat, corn and rice that keep on growing day after day. Rather incredible to find out that some of these crops have even been harvested. This technological (and also agricultural) virtuosity is instrumental in the debate on the scarcity of farmland, proposing a genuine alternative cultivation model that expands upwards. A project that is quite literally “extra-ordinary” (in the sense of “outside the norm”), developed by David Knafo and Avant Video Systems (AVS). This is a pavilion that is striking to look at, with the addition of a very special sensory effect involving touch and smell. The graphics set out to describe an organic texture, in fact, being real plants that grow day in day out, the sensory experience could not be bettered. Fascinating, there's no denying it!