ie School of Architecture

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The learning centre for the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, is a new kind of building. The whole structure, which in itself is like a small campus, is a one-storey slab undulating into hills and valleys and perforated with open-air atriums. What is absolutely radical about it is the way that the different zones are all completely open across this landscape, divided not by walls but by topographical horizons. “You can feel a very huge space but you cannot see the whole area,” explains Sejima, referring to how the floor rises up to cut off the view. Like the museum in Kanazawa, the EPFL building can be entered from a number of approaches, and the routes through it are free-form rather than channelled.

EPFL takes the practice’s preoccupation with fluidity and transparency to its logical limits. Again, this sense of openness is a Japanese quality taken to extremes, one that, Sejima explains, derives from the tatami floor mat: “We have some tendency to feel space – even if there is no wall we have floor mats and so there is some space between you and me. In Europe, the space [is] made by the wall and by the chairs but the Japanese just put the mat.”

EPFL is like one large mat, but it is also the most literal expression yet of SANAA’s inclination to describe its buildings as “parks”. “We can expect many people to stay together and at the same time find some personal space by themselves,” says Sejima, echoing Nishizawa’s description of the park, “anybody can join, anybody can stay.”

1. Biblioteca / areas de información científica 6.160 m2
incluye:
- recepción
- máquinas de préstamo
- biblioteca multimedia
- áreas de trabajo grupal y relajación
- coleción de investigación
- servicios internos para 35-40 miembros

2. Zonas de enseñanza 1.150 m2
incluye:
- habitación para conferencias
- oficinas CRAFT (Centre de Recherche et d’Appui pour la Formation et ses Technologies)
- oficinas y recepción del Centro de Lenguaje y Multimedia

3. Zonas de residencia 1.875 m2
incluye:
- hall principal, mesón de ayuda, punto de encuentro
- cybercafé
- cafetería autoservicio
- restaurante
- recepción
- tienda y oficinas de la asociación de estudiantes
- secretariado de la EPFL Graduates’ Association
- tienda de merchandising de EPFL

4. Zona cultural 1.690 m2
incluye:
- exhibiciones
- zonas multipropósitos, (conferencias, entretenimiento, …)
- multimedia bookshop
- taquilla de venta de billetes
- PPUR (Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes, the university press)

5. Zonas de servicio 3.500 m2
incluye:
- material de oficinas, correos
- archivos de la EPFL
- area de mantención
- estacionamiento subterráneo
- estacionamiento exterior

Total de las zonas de trabajo: 14.375 m2

ie School of Architecture lo descubrió en noviembre de 2008

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