Officially inaugurated on June 23, 2019, Olympic House is a project in sustainability that allows for innovative collaboration between stakeholders under one roof.

All the IOC staff under one roof

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#### The Olympic House allows the IOC to bring together its staff – 500 employees currently spread across Lausanne in four locations - under one roof at a single site.

The IOC will now benefit from two Olympic centres in Lausanne: the **Olympic House in Vidy** to cater for its administration and offer a welcoming meeting place for IOC Members, and the entire Olympic Movement; and **The Olympic Museum and the Olympic Studies Centre** dedicated to general public activities **in Ouchy.**

More than a just a construction project, the Olympic House has been designed with flexibility and people’s engagement in mind. This was achieved through a dynamic internal collaborative process involving the IOC staff. By addressing individual and collective needs, the Headquarters will offer the IOC workforce a qualitative and contemporary working environment. It has been built to adapt to strategic or organisational changes to come, with an agile working environment dedicated to a mobile workforce.

### **Bringing together IOC staff currently located in different sites in Lausanne**

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### **The Olympic House project timeline**

*   **December 2012 -** Presentation of the feasibility study for the consolidation of the IOC headquarters to the Executive Board.
*   **March 2013 -** Launch of the international architecture competition.
*   **June 2013 -** Selection, by the architecture competition jury, of the 12 architects invited to develop a project for the new IOC headquarters.
*   **December 2013 -** Choice of the architecture competition laureates by the competition jury and the IOC Executive Board.
*   **January 2014 -** Launch of the Parallel Development Studies with the three architecture competition winners.
*   **April 2014 -** Choice of the preferred architecture partner for the consolidation of the IOC headquarters by the Executive Board.
*   **December 2014 -** Presentation of the Olympic House project to the 127th IOC Session.
*   **3 March - 2 April 2015 -** Deconstruction permit public inquiry.
*   **10 April 2015 -** 100-year anniversary of the IOC in Lausanne.
*   **30 June - 30 July 2015 -** Request for the Olympic House building permit.
*   **8 December 2015 -** Symbolic laying of the first stone of the new IOC Headquarters.
*   **February 2016 -** Launch of archaeological studies on the Vidy site and start of deconstruction.
*   **Summer 2016 -** Construction starts on Olympic House.
*   **23 June 2019 -** Inauguration.

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### **The Olympic House functional description**

*   **Ground floor**: Hosting all hospitality functions (restaurant, conference centre, Agora and gym) and covered by a green plinth to foster integration within the park.
    
*   **Office floors**: Three identical office floors organised around a central staircase and favouring flexibility. These three office floors promote transparency through a double-skin glass façade.
    
*   **Roof**: Outdoor terrace and solar power installations (producing the equivalent of the yearly electricity consumption of 60 households in Lausanne).
    
*   **Basement**: Underground car park and support areas (logistics and technical areas).