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design team portfolioExpo.02Yverdon-Les Bains, SwitzerlandThe ‘Arteplage’ of Yverdon-les-Bains was one of the foursites of the Swiss National Expo that took take place in2002. By winning an international design competition,the team ‘Extasia’ (West 8, Morphing Systems, Véhovar& Jauslin, Diller and Scofidio, Techdata) was awarded theproject to transform an existing horse racing track andathletics field at the Lake of Neuchatel, into a stunninglandscape.Jerry van Eyck led the overall site layout design andrealization stages for the project.The surreal design for the site was to form a dialogue withthe surrounding Swiss mountainscape using the lake frontsetting. Large man-made ‘hills’ were the main organisingelements. Wandering between or over these hills, visitorswere confronted with masses of flowers in psychedelicpatterns, vivid colors and (dis-)orientating fragrances. Ineach hill at least one pavilion had been integrated, withexhibition spaces, media installations and concessions.Completing the series of hills, one ‘hill’ was to be locatedin the lake, in the form of a ‘cloud’. This artificial, floatingcloud, conceived in West 8’s Master Plan (which became“Blur” under Diller & Scofidio’s design), was the ‘object dudesir’ in the lake, accessible only by vanishing into its whitefoggy substance. The other built structures with exhibitionswere concentrated in two intersecting buildings withcontrasting architectural concepts: one integrating withand the other contrasting with the landscape.Client Reference:Ms. Ariane Widmer, Espace de l’Europe 2-4. casepostale, 2001 Neuchatel, La SuissePhone: +41 327262080S T A T E M E N T O F Q U A L I F I C A T I O N S3.6