Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne

New Rolex Learning Center will open next week in the Swiss Lausanne. The project of Japanese bureau SANAA.

Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

The centre is in a campus of sciences and technologies of university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the educational centre will be accessible both to students, and for the public. The centre will function as training laboratory, library with 500,000 volumes and the international cultural centre.

Having extended on the area in 20,000 sq.m., the centre there is an extensive network of services, libraries, information, dialogue, training, with restaurants, a cafe and vacation spots on open air. The building is innovative on the structure and the form, and has demanded use of the newest technologies for its building.

Rolex Learning Center receives financing from the Swiss government and large businessmen of the country. Participation of company Rolex in the project is a fruit of long-term cooperation with university EPFL in which frameworks researches of microtechnologies were carried out in hour design.

Rolex Awards

It also is traditional for the company, always a having reputation of the philanthropist in the field of arts, a science, culture (award Rolex Awards for businessmen, initiatives in sphere of arts Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative). Among other financial partners of the project — the companies well-known all over the world; Logitech, Losinger, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis, and SICPA.

Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne

New Rolex Learning Center will open next week in the Swiss Lausanne. The project of Japanese bureau SANAA.

Rolex Learning Center by SANAA

The centre is in a campus of sciences and technologies of university EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), the educational centre will be accessible both to students, and for the public. The centre will function as training laboratory, library with 500,000 volumes and the international cultural centre.

Having extended on the area in 20,000 sq.m., the centre there is an extensive network of services, libraries, information, dialogue, training, with restaurants, a cafe and vacation spots on open air. The building is innovative on the structure and the form, and has demanded use of the newest technologies for its building.

Rolex Learning Center receives financing from the Swiss government and large businessmen of the country. Participation of company Rolex in the project is a fruit of long-term cooperation with university EPFL in which frameworks researches of microtechnologies were carried out in hour design.

Rolex Awards

It also is traditional for the company, always a having reputation of the philanthropist in the field of arts, a science, culture (award Rolex Awards for businessmen, initiatives in sphere of arts Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative). Among other financial partners of the project — the companies well-known all over the world; Logitech, Losinger, Credit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis, and SICPA.

House Apartment-modern dugout in Switzerland

Whether it is possible to hide simultaneously the house in a slope of the Swiss Alpes, to open before inhabitants a tremendous kind on surrounding city and the nature, and to make this dwelling accessible to light?

Small house in the Swiss Alpes

The input in a building is combined with a small court yard. Rather big facade of the house, with a more potential for spacious windows is inside hidden. The corner of the review from the house is slightly under a corner.

Local authorities do not welcome modern decisions in architecture. But this design has been apprehended positively, as an example of the pragmatic unostentatious project in very sensitive district.

It is interesting, that in Switzerland the statement of the building project is carried out after on a site the wooden model of a building is erected. Then inhabitants of the given district, representatives of local community either approve the project, or reject the project, proving it that the architectural design is not entered in a district general plan.

House Apartment-modern dugout in Switzerland

Whether it is possible to hide simultaneously the house in a slope of the Swiss Alpes, to open before inhabitants a tremendous kind on surrounding city and the nature, and to make this dwelling accessible to light?

Small house in the Swiss Alpes

The input in a building is combined with a small court yard. Rather big facade of the house, with a more potential for spacious windows is inside hidden. The corner of the review from the house is slightly under a corner.

Local authorities do not welcome modern decisions in architecture. But this design has been apprehended positively, as an example of the pragmatic unostentatious project in very sensitive district.

It is interesting, that in Switzerland the statement of the building project is carried out after on a site the wooden model of a building is erected. Then inhabitants of the given district, representatives of local community either approve the project, or reject the project, proving it that the architectural design is not entered in a district general plan.