From April 17th to 25th, in Piazza del Duomo, in front of the Royal Palace, the Salone will offer to the city the project "Living Nature. La natura dell’abitare", developed together with the international design and innovation firm Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA).

In a single environment of 500 square meters, conceived with energy saving criteria, four natural and climatic microcosms will be enclosed and it will allow the four seasons of the year to coexist at the same time, one next to the other. Visitors can immerse themselves in nature and experience the changes through the four areas: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn.

If climate control is often associated with excessive consumption, this project proposes a radical change of perspective, demonstrating the feasibility of a technology for climate control that is sustainable, based on the use of photovoltaic cells and energy storage, with a wide potential for future applications. Last but not least, the project offers a new starting point and a different perspective on how to deal with environmental protection and climate change issues. This in order to improve our living conditions at home and in the city and to satisfy the need for "biophilia" - theorized by Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson - according to whom we are all instinctively drawn to nature and "programmed" to feel better when we are immersed in it.

Credits

Design of Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) for “Salone del Mobile. Miano 2018”

Concept Design: Carlo Ratti Associati & Studio Römer

Development Design: Carlo Ratti Associati

Scenography: Studio Römer

Engineering consultancy: Ai Studio

Landscape and Botanics: Patrick Blanc; Flavio Pollano

Main contractor: PAC Team Expo

Graphics: studio FM Milano

Living Nature. La natura dell’abitare

April, 17th – 25th

Piazza del Duomo - h. 10.00 – 22.00