EcoGate

by Simone Micheli
with Breda Sistemi Industriali

Concept
EcoGate is a symbolic door to eco-compatibility. EcoGate is a whole of signs reminding the visitor of how an intelligent path to a really sustainable future can start only through a series of new relations between the intellect dimension and that of the possible built-up.
EcoGate is a transit icon designed to promote a reflection on the possible expressions and contents of our architecture.
EcoGate is a dynamic geometry meant to stress how basic is man’s patient and copious work in order not to lose everything, not give up everything, to enable our children to see the sky once more.
“We have been asking our world for more and more, never thinking of possible gifts!
We went too far and we are still going too far. Maybe in order to put an end to this bizarre and irresponsible way of approaching life, it would be enough to stop and look, even for a second, at the bright light in the eyes full of beauty and enthusiasm of our children and everything would be clear at once!”.

Project
It’s a cubic installation marked by a structure in white iron with an outer edge formed by a thick cord weaving and a reflecting flooring.
The players of this urban, technological setting are two sectional main doors by Breda Sistemi Industriali designed for this event. Carried out in top quality materials (wood/polycarbonate/steel) and 98% recyclable, Breda doors, Wood Line mod. Disegni Speciali in slide S3, are formed by sectional panels in wood and polycarbonate, that run on semi-vertical slides, a solution that allows to occupy less space in the ceiling and have a minimum visual impact of the mechanics of the product also from the inner side of the room. The sections of the door surface are pinch-proof, with a patented contour. The automated door is supplied with safety devices complying with the applicable rules. The painting was made with procedures making use of eco-compatible products (water paint for the wooden section and epoxy paint for the slides). A sharp acid yellow stresses the aesthetic, technological and building features of the system offered in a dynamic motion that, together with lights, sounds and words, becomes the visual knot of the whole composition.

Breda Sistemi Industriali
For over twenty years a market leader in the manufacturing of sectional doors, Breda’s strong points are dynamism, innovation, technology and creativity. Safety and user-friendliness, noiselessness and thermal seal complete the technological features of Breda products and make the company synonymous with global quality.