RTS Building, Lausanne (Switzerland)
OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen- Type Headquarters / office
- Date 2014 - 2025
- City Lausanne
- Country Switzerland
- Photograph Bas Princen
Situated in the heart of the university campus of EPFL and UNIL, the new building for RTS (Swiss Radio and Television) functions as a hinge not just between the two institutions, but between fields of education and research, between classical radiobroadcasting and contemporary media. The building consists of four volumes separated from one another which support a curvilinear piece suspended seven meters above the street. The suspended part is designed as an open-plan office ‘field,’ a free-flowing space that favors cross-communication among different departments. The saw-tooth roof evokes the traditional industrial structures and brings top light into the workspace, conceived as an adaptable board game, with no marked hierarchies or rigid compartments, where the collaboration between journalists, technicians, designers, and digital experts happens organically and spontaneously...[+]
Cliente Client
Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion et Télévision
Arquitectos Architects
OFFICE Kersten Geers, David Van Severen, Giovanni Lazzareschi Sergiusti, Antonios Prokos, Jacopo Lugli, Ivana Čobejová, Bert Rogiers, Enea Facoetti, Steven Bosmans, Irini Peraki, Justine Rossillion, Hugo Mazza, Joschka Kannen, Yuichiro Onuma, Nenad Ðurić, Mahsa Ramezanpour, Riham El Moazen, Federico Taverna, Hugo Santoalha, Ronan Murray, Margaux Dequaire, Gregory Devaud, Alice Tripet
Colaboradores Collaborators
Fehlmann Architectes (local architect); Bureau Bas Smets (landscape design); Jeroen Provoost (interior landscape design); Bollinger+Grohmann, Ingeni SA (structural engineers); BCS (facade engineer); Les Éclaireurs (lighting design); AZ Ingénieurs, MAB Ingénierie (technical engineers);
Amstein + Walthert / ALWEOL (Building automation); SRG Engineering (building safety); Ignis Salutem (fire safety); Décibel Acoustique (general acoustics); Walters Storyk Design Group Basel (studio acoustics); Estia SA (climate); ArtefactoryLab (renderings)
Superficie Floor area
35.000m² (net interior area); 40.500m² (gross area)
Fotos Photos
Bas Princen
