Origami: Euroflora 2025 – Genova
Site: Genova
Year 2024 2025
Architectural Design: Matteo Fraschini, Architect – Urges S.R.L
Structural Design: Ing. Giovanni Noseda Pedraglio
Construction: Puppo Legno
Green Installation: Aster
Client: Porto Antico S.P.A.
Along the exhibition route, visitors will encounter three structures named “Origami”, as a tribute to the renowned Japanese practice. These structures serve as Landmarks in the narrative of the exhibition, creating a visual dialogue between the different curated areas. Within the context of Euroflora, Origami embodies the concept of land transformed into image, transparent and light, like a sheet of paper. This symbolism reflects the Italian, Mediterranean, and European landscapes, where human intervention has engaged in a centuries-long dialogue with nature, shaping it into form.
The Origami structures draw inspiration from three iconic images of Liguria:
• Upon entering Euroflora, the Sail, symbolically linking Genoa with Euroflora and its Sea.
• Beneath the tensile structure, the Strelitzia, with its unique, asymmetric flower, whose “petals” fan open in a vertical crescendo from a horizontal plane.
• Within the Nouvel Pavilion, the Net, which naturally references fishing and the sea; its form is derived from the water in which it is immersed. The Net is conceived as a light, airy structure suspended between sky and sea.
