Kazuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA), and structural engineer Manfred Grohmann designed the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne's Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne Switzerland.
The EPFL center has a library of 500,000 pieces of scientific literature and provides spaces for leisure, study, and lecture. The rectangular structure is conceived as parallel slabs of floor and ceiling suspended by slender columns. This allows free connection of spaces and views, with ribbon windows for the exterior threshold. Blobs of courtyard are punched out of the rectangle, and the concrete structure is gently lifted at places to allow pedestrian access to the courtyards. This change in interior elevation effects the relationship of spaces inside. A hierarchy of spaces forms forms with private study and public collaboration spaces.
Working with compression forces, the structural solution for the organic slabs and for the floating ceiling required great mathematical precision.
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