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Lausanne: The Rolex Learning Center

The Rolex Learning Center
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The Rolex Learning Center is situated in the campus of EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - in Lausanne, Switzerland.

EPFL is a public research University established in 1853, specializing in engineering and natural sciences. The University has an urban campus that extends alongside Lake Geneva and includes the EPFL Innovation Park as well as university research centers and affiliated laboratories. 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. The building consists of library, training centres, social spaces and studios, bar, restaurant and open spaces. To enter the Rolex Learning Center, it is necessary to cross the space under the huge vault with polymorphic curves, pierced by numerous openings. The visitor, immersed in a unitary and homogeneous space, is hardly able to fully embrace the landscape painted by the undulating slab.

The project required an elaborated design process due to the complexity of the construction system. The final shape of the ondulated slab is the result of a complex research process developed by the Japanese engineer Mutsuro Sasaki who developed a new shape-analysis approach - Extended Evolutionary Structural Optimization (EESO).

The full video episode is on our Youtube channel

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Location: Rolex Learning Center, 1015 Ecublens, Switzerland

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