This Italian theme park built a chocolate building you can eat

Nov 26 , 2017

An Italian architectural firm has created a building at Fico Eataly World, a new Italian theme park in Bologna, out of 30,000 chocolates.

Pavilion commissioned by high-end chocolatier Venchi, at Bologna’s Fico Eataly World – dedicated to Italian cuisine – made of 30,000 chocolates

In true Willy Wonka fashion, designers from the Italian firm of architects, Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA), constructed a building with edible walls.

The pavilion, commissioned by high-end chocolatier Venchi, is made of 30,000 chocolates.

Visitors to Bologna’s Fico Eataly World are free to pick the chocolates off the building’s exterior walls, which measure three metres long and six metres tall.

The project was led by Carlo Ratti, founding partner of CRA and director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT.

Last Wednesday the building debuted at Fico Eataly World, a new theme park dedicated to Italian cuisine, in Bologna, Italy.

Visitors are free to pick the chocolates off the exterior walls, which measure three metres long and six metres tall.

Inside, there are screens that use facial recognition to measure visitors’ emotions while eating the chocolate.

The system, developed by interaction design studio DotDotDot, analyses each person’s movement of their lips, eyebrows, eyes, nostrils, and forehead. Their face is then projected on the interior walls.

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