Project Details
- Project Name
- Rolex Learning Center
- Location
-
Lausanne ,SWITZERLAND
- Architect
- SANAA
- Client/Owner
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- Project Scope
- New Construction
- Size
- 215,280 sq. meters
- Year Completed
- 2010
- Shared by
- Thomas Guignard
- Project Status
- Built
- Cost
- $110,000,000
- Style
- Modern
Project Description
Built on the campus of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), The Rolex Learning
Center functions as a laboratory for learning, a library and an international cultural hub for EPFL, open to both students and the public. Spread over one single fluid space of 20,000 sq
meters, it provides a seamless network of services, libraries, information gathering, social spaces, spaces to study, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal ‘patios’, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, which required completely new methods of construction.
(Excerpt from the EPFL press kit)
