The Rolex Learning Centre by SANAA (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) will function as a laboratory for learning, a library with 500,000 volumes and an international cultural hub for EPFL. The Architects have designed it in such a way that it is spread over one single 20,000m² undulating fluid space. By doing so, they have created gentle undulating slopes and terraces internally and provides a seamless network of services. This shape was only possible by a new method of construction process. Services and amenities such as a libraries, social spaces, study spaces, restaurants, cafes and outdoor spaces sits underneath the building's curving roof supported by seemingly invisible supports (much like the Serpentine Gallery in London 2009)
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