The Rolex Learning Center

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Campus EPFL
Built on the campus of EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Rolex Learning Center designed by the internationally acclaimed Japanese architectural practice, SANAA, will function as a laboratory for learning, a library with 500,000 volumes and an international cultural hub for EPFL, open to both students and the public.

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Jenya, the adventure traveller
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Jenya the adventure traveller
Take a tour around the Campus of two main Lausanne Universities - UNIL and EPFL. The campus is located in the idyllic place on the shore of the lake. Start from EPFL with its futuristic design and slowly stroll towards nature-inspired UNIL campus. Make a stop to visit EPFL Learning Center - Rolex Library and get your opinion if its form reminds you of a Swiss cheese or mountains. Finish your tour with UNIL tree alley leading you to the lake where students are usually chilling after classes.

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Spread over one single fluid space of 20,000 sq metres, it provides a seamless network of services, libraries, information gathering, social spaces, spaces to study, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal ʻpatiosʼ, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, which required completely new methods of construction.

Called Forum Rolex, the conference and event venue has a seating capacity of 600, arranged around a collapsible circular stage of 70 m2. Equipped with all the latest technologies, a cloakroom and a lodge, the Forum Rolex can be booked every day throughout the year.

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