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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

Frank Lloyd Wright FoundationFrank Lloyd Wright Foundation

1940 · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years20101940
PlaceLausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandScottsdale, Arizona, United States
Place contextLausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandRepresentative site: Wyoming, Wyoming, United States
Climate15°C · 13.8h daylight · 8 km/h wind-1°C · 13.7h daylight · 3 km/h wind · via Unity Chapel
FocusUniversity learning center121 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
  • Frank Lloyd Wright
Linked context

Bureaus

  • SANAA

Notable works

  • Unity Chapel
  • Rookery Building
  • Louis Sullivan Bungalow
  • Walter Gale House
Typologies
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • chapel
  • sacred space
  • office
  • civic building
  • building
  • house
  • landscape
  • education
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • steel
  • timber
  • plaster
  • brick
  • stone
  • concrete
  • glass
  • copper
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Glass

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

  • Concrete
  • Steel
  • Brick
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.
  • 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.
  • Review masonry extent, reuse opportunities, and alternate assemblies where the design language allows it.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible40 of 40 recorded works are publicly accessible
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