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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.
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

Herzog & de MeuronHerzog & de Meuron

Zürich, Switzerland

Typeworkbureau
Year / years2010Unrecorded
PlaceLausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandZürich, Switzerland
Place contextLausanne, Vaud, SwitzerlandRepresentative site: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Climate17°C · 13.7h daylight · 11 km/h wind25°C · 12.9h daylight · 11 km/h wind · via Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
FocusUniversity learning center6 works in corpus
Architects
  • Kazuyo Sejima
  • Ryue Nishizawa
  • Herzog & de Meuron
  • Jacques Herzog
  • Pierre de Meuron
Linked context

Bureaus

  • SANAA

Notable works

  • Tenerife Espacio de las Artes
  • Tate Modern
  • Beirut Terraces
  • Elbphilharmonie
Typologies
  • university building
  • learning center
  • academic building
  • house
  • performance venue
  • museum
  • adaptive reuse
  • cultural building
  • housing
  • residential tower
  • high-rise
Materials
  • concrete
  • glass
  • steel
  • brick
  • steel
  • glass
  • concrete
  • stone
  • wood
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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible3 of 4 recorded works are publicly accessible
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