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Exterior view of the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, showing the broad curving roof and glazed openings across the sloped floor plate.

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Rolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Rolex Learning Center exterior view

Exterior view of the Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne.

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Rolex Learning Center

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland · City-level coordinates only

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Rolex Learning CenterRolex Learning Center

2010 · Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Douglas Cardinal ArchitectDouglas Cardinal Architect

1964 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20101964
PlaceLausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandOttawa, Ontario, Canada
Place contextLausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandRepresentative site: Gatineau, Gatineau, Canada
Climate14°C · 13.8h daylight · 12 km/h wind7°C · 13.7h daylight · 22 km/h wind · via Canadian Museum of History
FocusUniversity learning center3 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
  • Douglas Cardinal
Linked context

Bureaus

  • SANAA

Notable works

  • Canadian Museum of History
  • Telus World of Science Edmonton
  • National Museum of the American Indian
Typologies
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • museum
  • house
  • performance venue
  • landscape
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • timber
Carbon signals

Concrete, Steel, and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass

The recorded material palette leans lower-carbon on paper, but procurement and quantity still matter.

No dominant drivers yet.

Lower-carbon levers
  • Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
  • Prioritize recycled content, efficient sections, and procurement-specific EPD comparisons.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Track sourcing, certification, and assembly logic rather than assuming timber is automatically low impact.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 3 recorded works are publicly accessible
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