The Theatre of Trees

The new Expo Centre offers Thessaloniki a new green heart that celebrates Greek nature and embraces the culture and history of the city. A new radial array of trees and park landscape carves its way through the exhibition halls and surrounding functions binding them to the heritage structures with landscape.

This grand gesture populates the scheme with a variety of intimate moments to explore. Theatres of trees and provide centres for activity creating a unique landmark and more human scale experience to the expo park.

The proposed design connects the surrounding green spaces and carves back the buildings to create three distinct hearts of activity at the intersections of
historical axes between the seafront, the mountain and the city centre. These spaces introduce a generosity of green space, a variety of inspiring public and outdoor expo spaces that provide program flexibility and seamless integration to the city fabric.

A clear logistics and security strategy are integrated into the public realm design in a seamless manner to create the impression of promoting a public space first, whilst acknowledging the functional requirements of the expo centre.