In the Swiss Lobbying system transparency and equity do not have a say. This project proposes an open, accessible and transparent system that will be added in order to inform about the influences of lobbying as well as allow every Swiss citizen to participate and to meet with the parliamentarians.On the one hand, this project includes the creation of the Swiss Lobby App, which is a phone application where parliamentarians’ influences are visualized in a diagramatic way and where users can ask parliamentarians to have a meeting, both physically and virtually.
On the other hand, the project also includes the Swiss Lobby Add-on, which is an expansion of the Wanderhalle, the physical place located at the parliament of Bern where lobbyists meet with their parliamentarians. This new transparent extension, which is accessible for everyone, includes different spaces suitable for physical and virtual meetings in an informal typology where everything is at the same time transparent, open and intimate.
Glass is the main material, as in lobbying transparency is key and as with this material the add-on does not hide the facade of the building behind, it just adds to it. However the structure is all made in metal and it lays and hangs from the masonry of the building’s facade.
The interior organized itself as a traditional american diner where screens located in the walls and tables allow to show information and have virtual meetings. The program also includes a bar as it imitates the places where lobbyists usually meet with the parliamentarians. With all this the project proposes a place where new channels of influence are in contact with parliamentarians, a space where lobbying and transparency have the same meaning.