Ausstellung NEAT
Expo Milano 2015

The exposition "NEAT" is a part of the Swiss Pavilion at Expo Milano 2015. The Swiss Pavilion was designed and implemented by Netwerch in collaboration with the Federal Office of Transport. Its purpose is to inform the public about the engineering masterpiece "Gotthard Base Tunnel" in a sensuous way. With its 57 kilometers the tunnel will be the world's longest railway tunnel, officially opening in June 2016.

Tweaklab was commissioned by Netwerch to plan, programme and install the media technical installations as well as to implement the animation for the prominently positioned LED screen. The pixel pitch on the LED screen gives the animation a unique look which is evocative of 8-bit computer graphics.
Another highlight is the visualisation of the speed of the train. The tunnel, built according to perspective, was equipped with 3 x 18 metre long LED strands that illuminate the dark of the tunnel in a predefined temporal rhythm. Through an audio installation you can listen to the statements of tunnel workers and politicians talking via the rail station's loudspeakers.
Particularly impressive is the installation "Transportation Weighing Scale". It is displaying the total weight of 25’000’000’000 kg of the transports traversing the Gotthard tunnel within half a year. On a second display the respective body weight of all visitors is being added up and contrasted with the first figure. Which number will be higher is yet to be seen...
In another installation the visitors are rewarded with a very special present: A train ticket "Milano–Zurich" showing the actual time of departure and arrival of the visitor, at the time when they will travel through the new Gotthard tunnel much faster than now in the year 2016. It looks remarkably like a real SBB ticket and is printed via a touch screen.

Exhibition concept and design: Netwerch

Duration of the exhibition: 01.05.–31.10.2015