New Campus Hub

Was in Lausanne a few weeks ago with my family, while I was there I spent some time to see the most exciting new piece of architecture in the area called the Rolex Learning Centre at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Designed by the Japanese firm SANAA, the people who made the Serpentine pavilion in 2009. The building was designed to be the new hub of the campus, where a library, restaurant and other facilities locate. Open to both students and the public, it surely have became not only a place to study but also a place to meet. The form of building consist of a single free flowing floor surface with slopes connecting different spaces. The size of the building covers more than two football pitches and costed over 100 million CHF, largely paid by the government and private swiss firms, the simple form of the building actually was quite an impressive piece of engineering achievement with its complex mental framework to support the large curve surface of the building. It does make me jealous, I wish that we have something like this back in my uni...