Learning Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
The City: Vision of a Métropole Lémanique Today, the area around the campus of the EPFL is a typical, ubiquitous Swiss city-landscape, a bit urban, a bit rural, and not really either. But this is not just any location; it is a location where two university campuses define one of the most important poles in the landscape of higher education in Switzerland. The incomparable natural panorama of Lake Léman and Alps distinguishes the location. To date, no master planning or any single architectural project has been able to exploit this extraordinary potential that would allow the location to become a vital and major centre in a future Métropole Lémanique. Our urban vision of a Metropolis sees the entire Coast of Lake Léman as a chain of independent and yet linked cities, villages, and industrial poles, nestled in park-like surroundings, like different neighborhoods in a single city. The campus of the EPFL/UNIL and especially the project for the Learning Centre (LC) could symbolize this process of urbanization and make it clearly visible. The LC offers a unique opportunity to orient the campus towards this Métropole Lémanique.
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