Rolex Learning Center

The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the
cole polytechnique fdrale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by
the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.

Contents
1 History

o 1.1 Library

2 Main functions

3 Events

4 In popular culture

1. History
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were
selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The
team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as
Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron and
balos & Herreros.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was
funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues
Construction, Crdit Suisse, Nestl, Novartis and SICPA)

The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010

Library

The main library, containing 500,000 printed works, is one of the largest scientific collections
in Europe; four large study areas can accommodate 860 students with office space for over
100 EPFL and other employees; a multimedia library will give access to 10,000 online
journals and 17,000 e-books, with advanced lending machines and systems for bibliographic
search; a study centre for use by postgraduate researchers will provide access to the
universitys major archive and research collection, and there are teaching areas including ten
"bubbles" for seminars, group work and other meetings and a Language and Multimedia
Centre and associated administration offices.

2. Main functions

Multimedia library 500,000 volumes

Student workspaces 860 seats

Multipurpose hall "Forum Rolex" 600 seats

Caf and bar 53 seats + exterior

Food court 128 seats + exterior

Restaurant 80 seats

Career Centre

Library staff office

EPFL Precious Book Collection

 Student Association Office (AGEPoly)

Alumni Association Office (A3)

Research Laboratory for Computer-Human Interaction in Learning and Instruction

Centre for Digital Education - CEDE

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (EPFL Press)

Crdit suisse bank

Bookshop "La Fontaine"

Parking (500 places)

3. Events

On 2 April 2015, the press conference of Federica Mogherini (High Representative of the
European Union for Foreign Affairs) and Mohammad Javad Zarif (Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Iran) following the negotiations of the ministers of foreign affairs of the United States, the
United Kingdom, Russia, Germany, France, China, the European Union and Iran for a
Comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear programme (in the previous days at the
Beau-Rivage Palace) was held in the Learning Centre.[3][4]

4. In popular culture
Part of the 2014 film Love Is the Perfect Crime was filmed at the EPFL Learning Centre.[5]