Olmsted

Located near UNIL and EPFL, the Bourdonnette site offers new opportunities for training and research in the field of health. The western part of Lausanne is developing into a constellation of large urban entities with strong identities. The site's various programs are arranged to form a coherent and homogeneous whole, whose layout of the buildings following a geometric pattern around a park to form a center. The traditional block layout has been revisited here to create a dense but porous structure capable of integrating public spaces.
To the south of the park, the campus programs are distributed in a continuous pattern, with each program receiving its own specific identity and address based on its position. An alleyway runs lengthwise through the complex, passing through a series of courtyards and squares, creating a circulation space that facilitates user orientation and is sheltered from the noise of the boulevard.

Each program is developed according to its own typology. HESAV occupies the western part, the C4 program the middle part, and student housing the eastern part. The upper floors are connected by an “interior street” located on the second floor. This route is a way of bringing together all the entities of the programs, thus creating a double circulation. A uniform façade system is used throughout the building. It consists of a series of horizontal panels supported by columns, with variations in overhang specific to each program and orientation.