Open to both students and the public it is designed to be a learning laboratory a library with 500 000 volumes and an international cultural hub.
Rolex learning center floor plan.
Charged with housing a complex programme for nearly 900 students of 120 nationalities providing facilities for study teaching research socialising entertainment and administration that are now open from 7am to midnight sanaa.
Sanaa s rolex learning center is scarcely orthogonal cellular or conventionally institutional looking anywhere on its 88 000 m2 site.
Information desks including technology checkout at 3rd floor east desk mac wing digital media lab reading room north tower.
Grounded at all four corners the building conforms to the regularity of epfl s bland campus masterplan.
Rolex learning centre by sanaa case study.
The rolex learning center is above all a library and learning space devoted to the cultivation of knowledge through an array of different methods.
Classrooms center for teaching and learning offices.
The centre is located on the campus of science and technology university epfl ecole polytechnique fédérale de lausanne and will be open to both students and the public.
With this the 65m rolex learning centre was born financed by curvature contributions from rolex logitech bouygues construction credit suisse nestlé novartis and sicpa.
The building spans a single uninterrupted space of 20 000 m providing a seamless array of services libraries p.
The spaces which have very low height are abandoned without any proper function.
The rolex learning center a university study centre by japanese architects sanaa opens in lausanne switzerland next week.
Classrooms jittery joe s mlc security lost and found study space group study rooms and presentation practice rooms.
The rolex learning center at the ecole polytechnique fédérale de lausanne in switzerland will open its doors on feb 22th.
The rolex learning center was designed by internationally renowned japanese architecture firm sanaa.
There are many different experiences of spaces which you can feel from both inside and outside but at the same time they didn t maintain well the space underneath the building.
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