under the skin - fifthteen

The New Museum, New York, SANAA Architects (Kazuo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa) by Stanley Greenberg

oyster perpetual

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)