Swiss Pavilion Expo 2012 Yeosu

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The Korean Honor Guard is escorting the Korean-Swiss delegation to the Swiss Pavilion on May 21, 2012, the Swiss National Day at Expo 2012.

The Swiss Pavilion Expo 2012 Yeosu at the Expo 2012 in Yeosu , South Korea , covered an area of ​​869 m 2 in a hall made available by the organizers. The exhibition theme of the 2012 World's Fair was The Living Ocean and Coast . The Swiss Confederation presented itself with its pavilion on the sub-topic The Source. It's in your hands . It's in your hands. The official opening of the Swiss pavilion took place at the same time as the opening of Expo 2012 on May 12, 2012. Expo 2012 lasted until August 12, 2012.

Confirmation of participation, project management and budget

Religious sisters in the Quelle pavilion area , a room with a circular basin filled with water, from which moving images on the subject of water rose up, which seemed to flood the entire mirrored room.

On June 5, 2009, the Swiss Federal Council advocated the participation of the Swiss Confederation in the Expo 2012 in Yeosu and approved a total budget of CHF 7 million. On June 8, 2009, the Swiss Federal Council officially accepted the invitation to participate in Expo 2012. The Swiss Federal Council delegated the project management of the Swiss Pavilion to the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs , Presence Switzerland . As general commissioner of the Swiss pavilion, Dr. Urs Lustenberger, President of the Swiss-Asian Chamber of Commerce, appointed. The director of the Swiss pavilion was Olivier Roos.

Concept and construction of the pavilion

The prequalification process, accompanied by a jury of experts, provided for five interdisciplinary teams to be selected, which then had to develop an overall study. This comprised the conceptual design, design and implementation of Switzerland's official presence in South Korea. The winner was the design team Steiner Sarnen Switzerland / Tamschick Media + Space / Nüssli , which realized the pavilion together with Habegger AG . The pavilion offered a sensual experience of the Swiss mountain landscape and demonstrated its importance as a water reservoir and source of water in Europe. The heart and crowd puller of the pavilion was the 4,345-year-old ice core , which was extracted from the Monte Rosa massif by the Paul Scherrer Institute . The ice core was thus as old as Korea according to the myth of the legendary founding of Go-Joseon , the first Korean kingdom, by King Dangun in 2333 BC. Chr.

The Source. It's in your hands: a tour

A Korean children's yodel group on Swiss Nation Day, May 21, 2012, in the room with the over 4,000 year old ice core.

The entrance facade of the Swiss pavilion adorned the Jungfrau massif . The tour through the Swiss pavilion led from the mountain massif over the glacier to the source of the water and combined a sensual experience with the knowledge of the importance of the glacier landscape as a water reservoir, as the glaciers store over 70% of the world's drinking water supplies. During the tour, visitors had the opportunity to drink a sip of Swiss spring water from a special hand bowl. It was the aim of the design team for the Swiss pavilion with the sub-theme The Source. It's in your hands to draw attention to the fact that the sustainable use of drinking water supplies is in the hands of the people. The more than 4,000-year-old ice core also showed how long ice can last and that this eternal ice, which has stored climatic changes over millions of years, is an important source for science for researching changes on our planet, especially in the atmosphere . After the 2012 Expo, the ice core was released to the sea on the coast of Yeosu.

Awards

The Swiss pavilion at the Expo 2012 in Yeosu received the Gold Award for the best implementation of the main theme of the living ocean and the coast on the recommendation of the expert commission of the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE) . He was also honored with the red dot design award for high design quality and he received gold in the category Best Interpretation of Theme and 2nd place as Best Pavilion from EXHIBITOR magazine .

Prominent visitors in the Swiss pavilion

The prominent guests of the Swiss Pavilion included a. President of the National Council Hansjörg Walter , who opened the Swiss National Day ceremony on May 21, 2012, Nobel Prize winner Prof. Kurt Wüthrich , Crown Prince Willem-Alexander , Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen , the marine researcher and nature filmmaker Philippe Cousteau and the Australian top model Jessica Gomes .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Federal Department of Foreign Affairs: Press release. May 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Federal Department of Foreign Affairs: press release. January 26, 2011.
  3. ↑ Federal Department of Foreign Affairs: press release. March 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Federal Department of Foreign Affairs: Press release. August 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ Federal Department of Foreign Affairs: press release. May 21, 2012.