Part of:

• Fonds: Ábalos&Herreros fonds, 1920-2009
•    Series: Architectural projects, 1953-2009
•      Project: EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland (2004), 1986, 2003-2004, predominant 2004

People:

• Abalos & Herreros (archive creator)
• Abalos & Herreros (architectural firm)
• Iñaki Abalos (architect)
• Juan Herreros (architect)
• École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (client)
• Renata Sentkiewicz (architect)
• Olivia de Oliveira (architect)
• Blaise Sahy (architect)
• Verónica Meléndez (collaborator)
• Juan José Castellón (collaborator)
• Rubén Briongos (collaborator)
• Teresa Galí-Izard (landscape architect)

Title:

EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland (2004)

Date:

1986, 2003-2004, predominant 2004

Level of archival description:
Project

Extent and medium:

• 42 drawings
  40 printouts
  27 photographic materials
  11 reprographic copies
  6 graphic materials
  0,04 l.m. of textual records

Scope and content:
The project series documents the entry for a competition organised by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The firm identified this project as number 187.

“The Learning Center occupies the closest point to the two existing pedestrian accesses and distributes its programme in two large pieces: the green platform which puts in relation the different levels of mobility and houses the active program and the helix which defines the library as a huge ascending space which winds around itself at the interior as well as exterior culminating in an observatory which contains a restaurant. An isolated pavilion emerges over the green platform as a scenic counterpoint. […] Three materials: water, lawn and show form the base of the choice of materials and chromatic proposal supported by a regular structure of white concrete.” (ARCH270975)

Abalos & Herreros and Renata Sentkiewicz worked with Olivia de Oliveira, Blaise Sahy, Verónica Meléndez, Juanju González Castellón, Rubén Briongos and Teresa Galí.

Documenting the project are conceptual, design development and presentation drawings, cartographic, graphic, photographic and reference materials, correspondence, and presentation documents.

Reference number:

AP164.S1.2004.D9

Arrangement:
Materials in this project series were kept in their original order.

Location:

Lausanne Switzerland

Language of material:

• Spanish
• French

Related units of description:

• Note that there are additional printouts and graphic materials related to this project arranged in series AP164.S2 and AP164.S3. See files ARCH277445, ARCH278365, ARCH278368, ARCH278382, ARCH278384, ARCH278393, ARCH278445, ARCH270966, ARCH270975, ARCH270976, ARCH270978, and ARCH270979.

Contains:

• ARCH278139, Views of a model, EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland, ca. 2004
• ARCH278140, Reference materials, postcards, maps and site plans, EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1986, ca. 2003-2004
• ARCH278141, Design development drawings, graphic records and views of the model, EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland, ca. 2004
• ARCH278142, Application file and correspondence, EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland, ca. 2004
• ARCH278143, Sketches, EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland, ca. 2004
• ARCH278144, Presentation drawings and records, EPFL learning center, Lausanne, Switzerland, ca. 2004