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1 SWISS Projects 24 Created 07-Aug-11 By Luca Trabattoni, Lodi, Italy Theater 11 Zurich, EM2N auditorium, theatre Pavilion Extension of Kino Xenix Heidi Weber Museum Library of the Institute of Law Stadelhofen Station Cocoon 8 Tyre Shop Art Exchange 's and Artist's Apartment House Zurich, Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten housing Aussersihl Community Centre Branco Weiss Information Science Laboratory Zurich, baumschlager & eberle auditorium, education, laboratorium, library, university Brunnenhof MFO-Park 18 Zurich, Raderschall AG canopy, park 9 Culture and Congress Center 19 Luzern, Jean Nouvel congress centre, culture, music theatre 10 Westside shopping mall 20 Bern, Daniel Libeskind mall, mixed-use development 11 Zurich, Evolution Design office 13 Zurich, Gigon Guyer Architekten housing, kindergarten, nursery Zurich, Santiago Calatrava train station 7 Zurich, spillmannechsle architekten landmark, shop 6 Zurich, Santiago Calatrava archive, library, renovation, university Freitag Flagship Store Single Wall House Zurich, EM2N community centre Zurich, Le Corbusier museum 5 Eysins, GAS Architekten housing 4 Zurich, Frei + Saarinen Architekten bar, cinema Les Carolins a Eysins Zurich, Christian Kerez dwellings, private house Zurich, Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten kiosk, pavilion, restaurant 3 Zentrum Paul Klee 21 Bern, Renzo Piano museum 12 Zurich, Evolution Design exposition space, garage, shop Kubus-Titan 22 Bern, :mlzd library, museum 1

2 Hotel Astoria Luzern Luzern, Herzog and De Meuron congress centre, hotel 23 Rolex Learning Center La Source 25 Lausanne, Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés education, health care 24 Lausanne, SANAA culture, education, library Le Petit Maison Villa Le Lac 26 Vevey, Le Corbusier private house 2

3 photo: Hannes Henz photo: Hannes Henz Theater 11 Thurgauerstrasse Zurich 'A case of cannibalism in architecture' is what EM2N architect Daniel Niggli calls his conversion of the Stadthof 11 in Zurich-Oerlikon into a theatre for musicals The new building incorporated everything of the old theatre it could use, though that was little more than the stage house and the cellar, and gave it state-of-the-art technology Faced with the large buildings of its surroundings and the open space in between, the theatre responds without copying their scale Its highest corner juts forward, opening up at the base like a shark's jaws From this corner, the dark casing of perforated sheet metal enveloping both the outer walls and the roof, angles downward until, by the time it gets to the back wall, it is down to the level of the single-family homes there Piercing the perforated sheet-metal shell, a few large windows frame particular views into the building In the evening, light shines through the many small openings in between, which are visible only in outline by day photo: Hannes Henz 2006 EM2N MCH Messe Zuerich Axel_Simon Depend on the agenda Check the website for information on current events Located in Oerlikon, an industrial district in Zurich's north, across the street from the Velodrome and indoor Stadium Public transport: S-Bahn Lines S2, S5, S6, S7, S8, S14, S16 until Bahnhof Oerlikon then take Bus lines 63/94 or Tram line 11 until Messe/Hallenstadion 3

4 photo: afgh Pavilion Seefeldquai Zurich This take on the classic glass pavilion is no demonstration model for a transparent utopia, nor is it an attempt to 'frame' the natural surroundings It is a less formal design for a kiosk in the park beside Riesbach Harbour in Zürich The take-away restaurant, with seating for 35, is contained within a glass object that is in keeping with a series of sculptures in the park The polygonal shape, the transparency and lightness of the material, and the various tints of the colored films on the glass, ensure that, depending on the time of day, this object stands out from or merges with its surroundings On a less prosaic note, another reason for choosing glass was the fact that graffiti and dirt can be easily removed photo: afgh Floor area/size m² Supplier Supplier Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten Glas Trösch AG MTV Villmergen City of Zürich Kirsten_Hannema 4

5 photo: Hannes Henz photo: Hannes Henz Extension of Kino Xenix Kanzleistrasse Zurich In 1904, several temporary wooden pavilions were erected in Zurich in order to respond to the rising demand for classrooms In 1984, one of these 'temporary' structures was conquered by a group of young film enthusiasts who wanted to set-up an alternative cinema The schoolrooms became the auditorium and the corridor served as a bar In order to achieve a more efficient, more flexible, and more user-friendly building, we were asked to redesign every single corner inside the existing structure and to project an extension The result is a seamless new whole of old and newthe bar, for example, is one continuous space consisting of two halves from 1904 and 2007 This effect is achieved by a continuation of the existing ceiling, including replicas of the old beams, as well as the mimetic materialization of the extension The strategy of unification is used on the exterior as well: The roof of the extension is stretched over parts of the existing building in order to fuse old and new photo: Hannes Henz Floor area/size m² Frei + Saarinen Architekten City of Zuerich MS Daily open except 31Dec Mon-Thu , Fri , Sat , Sun Zurich "Langstasse"-District, Tram Nr 8, Bus Nr 32, Helvetiaplatz 5

6 photo: Jean-Michel Landecy photo: Jean-Michel Landecy Les Carolins a Eysins Route de l'eglise 1262 Eysins The northern shore of Lake Leman, between Geneva and Lausanne, consists of agricultural lands and a heterogeneous built fabric, varying in density and scale GAS s took this lack of coherence as the starting point for this housing project, consisting of three new buildings By condensing the different elements of the context into a single hybrid object, they arrived at an architecture having the shape of an agricultural shed, the projecting roofs of a barn, the openings of an oversized villa, and the colours of a high street fashion item The façades are clad in horizontal, painted wooden laths The sheen of the oil-based paint and the tonal variations of the narrow wooden strips tend to de-materialize the building Without falling into an artificial communitarianism, the architects have managed to establish an organic relation between the various elements of the project which renders the external spaces more accessible and the collective more personal photo: Jean-Michel Landecy 2005 GAS Architekten Private Manuel_Bieler Located off Autoroute 1 Following Route de Crassier to Eysins and Nyon, the intersection with Route de l'eglise is located just before Eysin's town centre 6

7 photo: Leonardo Noguez photo: Leonardo Noguez Heidi Weber Museum Höschgasse Zurich The Heidi Weber Museum reflects the harmonic unity of Le Corbusier's architecture, sculptures, paintings, furniture designs and his writings which is unique and possibly the only one such existing structure in the world: a total work of art Located on the wooded shores of Lake Zurich, the last building designed by Le Corbusier, synthesizes Corbusier's genius Yet it marks a radical change of his achievement of using concrete and stone so poetically He to put in practice the construction system based on cubic units of 226 meters each side, created according to the Modulor measures He framed his final masterpiece in steel and glass and thus created a signpost for the future Le Corbusier made great use of prefabricated steel elements together with multi-coloured enamelled plates fitted to the central core, and above the complex he designed a 'free-floating' roof to keep the house protected from both the rain and the sun (text by Arch Leonardo Noguez) photo: Liesa Siegelmann Le Corbusier Mrs Heidi Weber JMMM From July to September on Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to 5 pm for updates take Tram 2 along Seefeld Strasse to Hoeschgasse Walk along Hoeschgasse towards the lake (that's to the right if you're coming from the town center) The pavilion is at the end of the road on the left, within the Zürichhorn park 7

8 photo: Michael Buschor photo: Michael Buschor Library of the Institute of Law Rämistrasse 76 CH-8001 Zurich Library for the law faculty of the university of Zurich (Rechtswissenschaftliches Institut RWI) The old building from Hermann Fietz was built 1909 Calatrava received the assignment already in 1989 but it took another ten years until the construction started The exterior stayed pretty much untouched The whole intervention is more of a giant piece of wooden furniture placed in the atrium of the existing building The library has 5000 meters space for books and 500 working places The oval skylight has an integrated mechanical sun shade Santiago Calatrava University of Zurich Buschi photo: Michael Buschor Library: Mo - Fr: 8:00-21:00 Sa: 8:00-17:00 Info desk: Mo - Fr: 10:00-12:00 and 13:00-17:00 train station 'Zurich Stadelhofen' (by Calatrava as well), tram 11 (to Auzelg) or tram 15 (Bucheggplatz) or 3 minutes walk to 'Bellevue' Take tram 9 (to Hirzenbach) or tram 5 (to Kirche Fluntern) to 'Kantonsschule', then 100m walk in the direction of the tram Classizistic building on the right with a bronze sculpture Entrance on the back 8

9 photo: Roland Tännler photo: Roland Tännler Freitag Flagship Store Geroldstrasse 17 CH-8005 Zurich Freitag started to make tarp-bags in 1993, inspired from a view onto the transit-bridge In 2006 they decided to sell bags-made-from-tarps in a shop-made-from-containers Completely built from 17 rusty, recycled freight-containers, selected in person in Hamburg and brought to Zurich by rail Stacked low enough not to violate the city s restriction on high-rise, high enough to send shivers down anyone s spine The way the elements are stacked is authentic, and only connecting elements from the shipping industry are used This also means that dismantling the tower and leaving the site in its original state will be a straightforward process Freitag s decision to locate its flagship store here enriches the area, adding a new, high profile building which is used by members of the public during the day The view from the roof of the Freitag shop onto the transit-bridge is the same view that started the whole shebang in 1993 For some it s just noisy For others it s a source of inspiration photo: Roland Tännler 2006 Landscape designer Structural engineer spillmannechsle architekten bbz Landschaftsarchitekten Henauer Gugler Daniel und Markus Freitag MI_MOA Monday to Friday: 11:00-19:30 Saturday: 11:00-18:00 Sunday: closed 9

10 photo: Maarten Helle photo: Maarten Helle Stadelhofen Station Stadelhoferstrasse 8001 Zurich Stadelhofen Train Station, built in the early 1980s, is a major transportation junction for the Zurich area The original design consisted of a 300 metres long terminal building, running along a curved railway line, which itself runs along a hillside in the town's centre In 1990, Santiago Calatrava received the assignment to add a new third track to the existing train station In order to accomplish this, his design envolved excavating part of the hillside to add the track, only to restore the hillside in part on top of the new structure This way the new track has an open, naturally lit platform, while above ground space was created for walkways photo: Maarten Helle 1984 Santiago Calatrava HelleBeelden Depending on departure times Swiss Railways operates regional train services through Stadelhofen However, the station is only for regional lines, and is not the main station in Zurich You can reach it from the main station in about minutes by tram (No 11, going south) 10

11 photo: Gregor Kämpfer photo: Camenzind Evolution Cocoon Seefeldstrasse Zurich This exclusive office building is situated within a beautiful cluster of mature trees and generates its geometry directly from its surroundings The building forms an opening spiral and creates a new concept for office buildings All office spaces are openly arranged along the internal circulation ramp, which leads around a stunning internal atrium photo: Camenzind Evolution Public access unknown! Floor area/size m², Interior architect Lighting designer Evolution Design EvolutionDesign Modular Lighting Swiss Life 11

12 photo: Martina Issler photo: Martina Issler Tyre Shop Art Exchange Mythen-Quai Zurich This tyre fitting shop / art exchange is situated on a brown field site adjacent to the lake of Zurich, between a railway station and the main access road into the centre of the city In this stark environment one finds petrol stations, 24-hour shops, night clubs and start-up companies of every kind which are served by a never ending stream of people moving in and out of town The client was looking for a highly efficient tyre-fitting shop with a strong visual identity The entire façade of tyre shop's first floor was therefore conceived as a 4-sided, interactive communication surface This created a building which acts as a drive-by gallery for passing traffic and engages even more powerfully with pedestrians waiting for buses or trains photo: Martina Issler Project is not public! Floor area/size m², Interior architect Evolution Design EvolutionDesign Schaller 12

13 photo: David Baugh photo: David Baugh Single Wall House Burenweg Zurich Outwardly simple, this project is, in fact, rather sophisticated, both structurally and spatially On a small and narrow plot, overlooking the heart of Zurich, the architect has built a structure containing two houses Instead of sitting them one above the other, or in tandem, the volume has been split vertically and longitudinally, so that each dwelling can take equal advantage of the views The parting wall zig-zags and follows a different line on each of the three floors This stabilizes it transversely and maximises the variety of spaces, which flow from floor to floor via open stair flights The wall is formed in reinforced concrete as is each floor plate, which is cantilevered from it, so that there are no perimeter columns to obstruct the views The above ground external walls are completely glazed; some sections can be slid open for ventilation External roller blinds located along the edge of the floor slabs can be lowered to control solar gain and help with privacy photo: David Baugh Project is not public! 2007 Project manager Structural engineer Christian Kerez BGS & Partner Architekten AG Dr Schwartz Consulting AG davidb Take the number 11 tram to Burgweiss and the Tram Museum From here turn east into Wasserstrasse (this road is very steep) At the first crossroads, turn right into Eierbrechtstrasse Follow this road until it turns left and becomes Burenweg The project is at the end of the turn at the junction with Hirtenweg 13

14 photo: David Baugh photo: David Baugh 's and Artist's Apartment House Sädlenweg Zurich This contemporary block of four apartments sits on a north-facing hillside in the western suburbs of Zurich It is spread over four levels, with two duplex apartments and two smaller roof top units - all of which wrap around each other At first glance (and in most photographs) it looks as if it is clad in concrete, when in fact the skin is made of 3mm-thick galvanised sheet steel The armature of the house, that is to say the foundation slab and the main internal stair cores, are indeed formed from in-situ concrete However the remainder of the walls, both internal and external, are formed using timber studs Internally, the materials and surfaces are undecorated, giving the interior a neutral appearance In total contrast are the bathrooms and kitchens which are lined with some very vivid colours, coated onto the backs of glass sheets photo: David Baugh Project is not public! Floor area/size m² Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architekten davidb Take a number 9 or 14 tram in the direction of Tremi The last part of the route runs along Birmensdorfer Strasse to a traffic island containing the tram terminus Alight from the tram, continue west along Birmensdorfer Strasse, up the hill for approximately 600m, then take the second left into Sädlenweg The project is about half-way along the street on the right-hand side 14

15 photo: David Baugh photo: David Baugh Aussersihl Community Centre Hohlstrasse Zurich This project was won in competition in 1999 The site is a historic memorial park, on the western side of the city centre - a sensitive location The architects decided to break with convention for a community centre, and build vertically, rather than horizontally The initial proposal was for a six-storey, angular tower nestling by some trees on the eastern side of the site After completing the design, the budget was slashed, and the design team were sent back to the drawing board The revised scheme is still in the form of a tower, but only four storeys, including a basement and kidney-shaped in plan The structure is formed of lime brick walls and concrete floor slabs It is clad in timber boards, stained dark green, to help the building blend in with its surroundings By contrast, the interiors are painted in many different and bright colours The ground floor contains a café, which is popular with the locals out enjoying the park 2000 Services engineer Structural engineer EM2N Amstein+Walthert Tragwerk Bauingenieure GmbH City of Zurich Department of Social Welfare davidb photo: David Baugh The project is located in Backeranlage Park The number 8 tram stops here 15

16 photo: Maarten Thewissen photo: Eke Miedaner Branco Weiss Information Science Laboratory Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse Zurich Within ETH Zurich this new building is simply called the 'HIT', but its full name is the 'Branco Weiss Information Science Laboratory', named after ETH Zurich alumnus Branco Weiss who supported the building financially The building, with its panoramic view of the entire city, will certainly be filled with a lot of electronics by the users, and yet it is not a high-tech building, as a symbol of the information highway The façade is a contributor to the building's climatic properties; sensors respond to the weather and the height of the sun The depths of the balconies differ depending on their compass direction, so they also act as sunshades Openings of various sizes from the small spatial units, the entrance area and the two-story seminar rooms situated along the outer walls lend the façade its own rhythm //text from architects' website photo: Roderick Trompert Floor area/size m² baumschlager & eberle ETH Zürich Roderick mo to fr 8-22h From Zürich HB: tram 11 (direction Auzelg) to Bucheggplatz, change to bus 69 to terminal stop ETH Hönggerberg tram 14 (direction Seebach) to Milchbuck, change to bus 69 to terminal stop ETH Hönggerberg From Bahnhof Oerlikon Nord bus 80 (direction Triemlispital) to stop ETH Hönggerberg 16

17 photo: Roderick Trompert photo: Roderick Trompert Brunnenhof Brunnenhofstrasse Zurich Two lightly bent, elongated volumes of different heights restructure Buchegg Park The six-storey building on Hofwiesenstrasse is oriented towards the park as well as to the street It borders off the park from the street and protects it from the street noise The facades are formed by the protracting balconies and the concrete bands that wrap horizontally around the building Between them storey-height windows and alternately coloured glass panels form together with sliding anti-sun and screening glass panels an interplay of reflecting and matt, translucent and transparent coloured surfaces The colour concept was developed together with the artist Adrian Schiess Facing the street the glazing is dark blue and violet while facing the park the colour tones progress over large spaces from blue tones to green and then red The impression of the fluent, changing play of colours is enhanced by the varying positions of the sliding elements photo: Roderick Trompert Project is not public! 2007 Artist Project manager Structural engineer Landscape designer Gigon Guyer Architekten Adrian Schiess b+p baurealisation ag Dr Lüchinger + Meyer Bauing Hager Landschaftsarchitektur AG Stiftung Wohnungen für kinderreiche Familien Roderick From Zurich HB take tram 11 direction Auzelg to stop 'Radiostudio' 17

18 photo: bjunker photo: bjunker MFO-Park Sophie-Taeuber-Strasse Zurich The MFO-Park is a public square/public park located in the north of Zurich Its steel construction has exactly the same size as the former industrial building situated in the place The steel structure was meant to get overgrown by various plants In the past years, the initially clean steel structure became more and more covered by leaves Within the process of getting overgrown it became more and more popular to the inhabitants of the quarter The project is part of the transformation of Zurich-Nord, forming an industrial area into an urban quarter It shows one way of how industrial areas can be transformed without losing the characteristics totally photo: bjunker Floor area/size m² Main designer, Landscape architect Raderschall AG bjunker Burckhardt + Partner AG Stadt Zürich Leave Zürich Oerlikon Train Station towards north Follow the Therese-Giehse-Strasse for about 100m, turn left (Elias-Canetti-Strasse), go 150m and there you are 18

19 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Culture and Congress Center Europaplatz 1 CH-6005 Luzern The KKL Luzern was built in record time, five years, between 1995 and 2000 The work of French architect Jean Nouvel and American acoustician Russell Johnson replaced Armin Meili s (1933/34) building The construction is divided into three parts and made up of the Concert Hall, a multifunctional Lucerne Hall as well as the Convention Centre with its Auditorium and the Museum of Art Lucerne One of the most important features of the KKL Luzern is that all kinds of different events may take place under the same gigantic roof Not only separately and next door to each other but with transparent boundaries also together These events encompass the fields of culture, convention and cuisine The building stands out especially because of its huge roof, which has become the trademark of the KKL Luzern It is the ideal component to compliment the natural landmark Mount Pilatus and the historical trademark Chapel Bridge photo: João Sousa Floor area/size m² Jean Nouvel Tragerstiftung Joao_Sousa You can join a scheduled public guided tour For reservations phone , inf[at]kkl-luzernch The Culture and Congress Center is right next to the Luzern train station (on your right as you come out of the station) 19

20 photo: Andreina Schoeberlein photo: Andreina Schoeberlein Westside shopping mall Riedbachstrasse Bern The Westside project is an urban scale architecture project totalling 15 million sq ft In addition to the 55 shops, 10 restaurants and bars, hotel, multiplex cinema, fun bath with wellness center and housing, this mixed-use program radically reinvents the concept of shopping, entertainment and living Despite its location west of the city, in Brünnen-Bern, Westside is urban in scale Critics, such as David Rogers of the Los Angeles-based Jerde Partnership, have faulted Bern for neglecting to integrate such a shopping center into the city s urban fabric A shopping center on the city s periphery contributes to the disintegration of the city center and leads to a loss of values, he says Defenders of Westside, such as Swiss architect Barbara Holzer, argue that Bern s urban center is not under threat and that the shopping center instead offers new urban spaces photo: Andreina Schoeberlein Daniel Libeskind Neue Brünnen AG, Anton Gäumann, CEO Andreina_Schoeberlein shopping: Mo-Thursday: Fr Sa Sunday: closed Cinemas: Mo-Thursday: Fr Sa Sunday: Every quarter of an hour, you can reach Westside in just eight minutes from Bern main railway station by S-bahn nos S5, S51 and S52 If you take bus no 14 to the terminus Brünnen-Bahnhof, you can also hop off right in front of the main entrance There is also the postbus number 570 that will take you once an hour from Mühleberg to Brünnen-station Read more at

21 photo: João Sousa photo: João Sousa Zentrum Paul Klee Monument im Fruchtland Bern At the heart of this new cultural institution is the artist Paul Klee ( ), his life and his work Today Paul Klee, who was also a musician, teacher and poet, ranks as one of the 20th century s most significant artists Of the 10,000 or so works that make up Paul Klee s oeuvre a good 40 per cent, that is to say around 4,000 paintings, watercolours and drawings as well as archives and biographical material, has been brought together at the Zentrum Paul Klee The Centre s collections are considered as the largest collection of a single artist of world renown Renzo Piano's fascination with the terrain on the eastern outskirts of Bern gave him the idea of creating a spacious island of green from which the architecture would emerge in the form of three undulating waves photo: João Sousa Renzo Piano Joao_Sousa Tel +41 (0) kontaktzpkorg Exhibitions: Mon closed, Tue Sun: 10 am to 5 pm Tickets on sale: 930 am to 5 pm Museum Street / Shop / Café: Mon closed, Tue Sun: 930 am to 530 pm Bus no 12 (direction: Zentrum Paul Klee)To the end station; the bus stops by the Schöngrün Restaurant and the north entrance to the Paul Klee Center Tram no 5 (direction: Ostring) Take it to the end station; then there is a walk by foot going slightly upwards through a shopping center and then, after turning left, along the Giacometti street to the south entrance and also to the main entrance to the Paul Klee Center It takes ca 15 minutes Bus no 10 (direction: Ostermundigen) 21

22 photo: bjunker photo: bjunker Kubus-Titan Helvetiaplatz Bern The Historic Museum was built by André Lambert in 1894 in a historistic style This extension to the Historic Museum in Bern comprises a large exhibition room with roof terrace, a floor allocated to storerooms and office space for the museum itself, as well as offices and a library with reading room for the City Archive, which is also included in the new extension photo: bjunker 2009 Supplier :mlzd Reynaers Aluminium Historisches Museum Bern bjunker Tuesday to Sunday Monday closed By public transport from Bern Railway Station Tram line 6 (direction Worb), Tram line 7 (direction Ostring) and Tram line 8 (direction Saali) as far as the stop "Helvetiaplatz" 22

23 photo: Marco De Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio Hotel Astoria Luzern Pilatusstrasse Luzern This extension to the existing hotel was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and hosts 12 light-flooded conference rooms with state of the art infrastructure, as well as 90 new and spacious hotel rooms which are especially desingned for global nomads (text from website hotel) 2007 Herzog and De Meuron Marco_De_Trizio photo: Marco De Trizio 23

24 photo: Trevor Patt photo: Trevor Patt Rolex Learning Center Route des Noyerettes 1015 Lausanne Point of entry to Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Learning Center is a place to learn, access information and live A place where virtual and physical components are combined Its very concept includes the flexibility and growth potential to evolve and follow the pedagogical, social and technical trends of the School It houses the EPFL Library, providing the 10'000 students on campus with 900 working seats arranged in various configurations: silence space for personal work, quiet space for collaborative work and sound-proofed rooms for group work The Library is public and offers free access to its 500'000 volumes and over 1 million online documents, focused on the School topics: fundamental and applied sciences, and architecture Besides the Library are 3 restaurants, a bookshop and a multi-purpose hall, next to the EPFL Press, a laboratory for the use of technology in didactics, student and alumni associations and a Career Center photo: Trevor Patt Floor area/size m² Contractor SANAA Losinger Construction Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne timtom 7am - midnight 7/7 (except August 1st and December 25th) More info here: The Rolex Learning Center is part of the Campus 2010 project, which comprises new student housing, a hotel, office space for EPFL spinoffs and a conference centre scheduled to open in 2012 The projects also aims at redefining and opening the South sector, integrating areas of relaxation, providing a breath of air within the new context of a significant campus The Rolex Learning Center building site has become an attraction in itself, in addition to the center's stunning, pioneering architecture EPFL and Losinger have developed a series of visits tailored to different groups, from industry professionals to the EPFL community and people from the neighborhood, as well as others who are curious visiterlc@epflch or see their website for more information 24

25 photo: ptk photo: ptk La Source Avenue Vinet Lausanne The Clinic belongs to a private non-profit foundation and supports the La Source Institute and Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and provides the nursing students with opportunities to complete their probationary period and to integrate theory and practice in order to finish their project Located in the centre of Lausanne, the Clinic is situated in a calm, pleasant garden setting and is with its 150 beds, the top private facility of the area for all surgical and medical treatments as well as obstetrics The clinic was entirely refurbished between 1998 and 2001 by Ersan Blanc The architect Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés was responsible for the renewal of the facades, which was completed in 2009 The building was packed by a layer of transparent protection, making perceptible the depth of the intervention Moreover it allows a great expressive richness thanks to the various effects resulting from the variation of the reflectionsthe transparencies, or the variations of color photo: ptk Project is not public! 2009 Main designer, Interior architect Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés Ersan Blanc SA Clinique de la Source -ptk- 25

26 photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Le Petit Maison Villa Le Lac Route de Laveaux VD Corseaux Vevey A house for the parents of the architect, an elderly couple, on the shores of lake Geneva It is small, (16m x 4m), a simple white plaster parallelogram with one floor consisting of a living room, a bedroom, powder room, a small salon that could be converted to a bedroom for guests, a vestibule, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a closet for storing clothing and other items The front exterior wall was added later, when a new road was built in front of the property A sober and even humble porch precedes the entrance door An elevated additional (guest)room, accessible by stairs in the entrance courtyard, has a magnificent view at the lake over the roof Hollow concrete blocks that were used for the walls are good conductors of heat and cold, which was bad For these and other technical reasons, a coating of galvanized panels was added to the façade Structural problems caused by the lake and cheap construction materials led Le Corbusier to coat the outside with aluminum in the 1950s photo: Jeroen Meijer 1925, Interior architect Le Corbusier jpmm From April to October: on Monday from 9 to 12:00 On wednesday from 1 pm to 5 pm Outside opening hours, visits on request are possible by appointment with the curator: lecorbusier@corseauxch From the direction of Vevey: the building is located on the west edge of Vevey, on route de Lavaux, the road leading out of town beyond the Nestlé headquarters building The villa is shortly on the left side next to a marina( 26