Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 HiTec American/Swiss joint venture on the Lake Of Neuchatel: Hi res image: http://www.martin-pub.ch/Bildmaterial/expo02/Wolke.jpg . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Botch Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 Aliens! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 That's where they make the cheese, I reckon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted May 21, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 "Blur Building" Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland - 2002 An architecture of atmosphere. Water is pumped from the lake, filtered, and shot as a fine mist through 31,500 high-pressure mist nozzles with a diameter of 0.12 mm. A smart weather system reads the shifting climactic conditions of temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and processes the data in a central computer that regulates water pressure. We call it simply "Die Wolke" of Yverdon (cloud of Yverdon), a walkable artifical blur planned by the New Yorker architects Elisabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio: http://www.dillerscofidio.com/blur.html http://www.dillerscofidio.com/projects.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 Angelo, have you seen it in person.... can you tour the building? was it erected purely as art, or does it have scientific value? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rudolf von Hagenwil Posted May 21, 2008 Author Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 Angelo, have you seen it in person.... can you tour the building? was it erected purely as art, or does it have scientific value? Yes I have walked in the artifical cloud. You pick up a rain coat at the beginn of the footbridge. It is said that it is a scientific master piece but it is for the senses, quasi education and entertainment. The French name is: Nuage Artificiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 Wow... I would LOVE to tour that at night!! Does the spray make a loud sound? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super 8 Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 Man, someone has GOT to do a concert there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted May 21, 2008 Members Share Posted May 21, 2008 A hell of a lot of trouble to steam some lake mollusks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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