A journey to the center of the earth and beyond

The exhibition "Building the Future," promoted by the Webuild Group with Triennale Milano, takes visitors to discover the secrets behind mega infrastructures, telling the story of how they are grafted into the places where they rise. 

Through impressive art installations, visitors are guided to the center of the earth in the company of TBMs that dig tunnels for metros, railways, and hydroelectric plants, subsequently rising to the surface, into the sunlight that illuminates works like bridges, dams, highways, cultural buildings, airports, and stadiums.

A journey that chronicles the courage of those who start a new infrastructural project, bringing with them their wealth of experience that, from year to year, is transferred to younger people, the builders of the future. A physical and symbolic journey into the future. A bridge, a subway line, a hydropower plant, a railway, a road, a desalinator: works that serve to speed up the development of an area, reduce pollution in a metropolis, ensuring clean water for a region, also protecting millions of people from flooding.

This is Webuild's mission, the group that specializes in the design and construction of large complex infrastructure that has become one of the largest players in the industry.

The path

The "Building the Future" exhibition is a journey through 8 thematic areas, 6 of these dedicated to the main infrastructure sectors where Webuild works, and its iconic projects built worldwide; the seventh thematic area delves into construction techniques and technological, material and process innovations, which ensure increasingly sustainable projects, with the utmost attention to training, and people's health and safety.

The path is completed by the most futuristic area, designed as a landing place to the future - the best vantage point to see what will happen tomorrow.

Webuild's projects, in the first six thematic areas, dialogue with as many site-specific installations curated by Triennale Milano. These critical insights, designed for the occasion, by researchers, architects, and landscape architects like Fosbury Architecture, Michel Desvigne Paysagiste, Bureau Bas Smets, Studio Ossidiana, Superflux, Catherine Mosbach with Shandor Chury (Studio OVVO), make us try to answer new questions, broadening the gaze to the ecosystems of which infrastructure are a part, and to the incessant movement of transformation that landscape and infrastructure continuously and mutually enact.