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Library University of Lausanne

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1st floor reading area
2nd floor stacks
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Location: Lausanne
Date: Competition: 2015, 8th place

Berrel Berrel Kräutler Architekten AG
Maurice Berrel, Jürg Berrel, Raphael Kräutler

Competition: Marcel Fässler, Samuel Häusermann, Thomas Merz, Norbert Pasko, Jaime Rodriguez

Project participants
Clients: Kanton Waadt, Abteilung Immobilien
Landscape architecture: ORT AG für Landschaftsarchitektur
Construction engineer: Sollertia
Building technology: Amstein+Walthert
Visualisations: maaars

0212Library University of Lausanne

The extension of the “Unithèque” on the campus of the University of Lausanne. The library and the restau­rant in the present build­ing — dubbed “The Banana” by locals — are to be upgraded and supple­mented with addi­tional common rooms.