Kengo Kuma & Associates, together with Holzer Kobler Architekturen, won the architectural design competition launched in 2012 to develop Cosandey Square at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Their project, “Under One Roof,” will unite an experimental Art & Sciences space and a demonstration pavilion under a single, long stone roof at the Montreux Jazz Lab. To connect science and culture at EPFL, the university’s campus will boast a novel “backbone” that stretches the length of Cosandey Square. More images and architects’ description after the break.
The Swiss federal government will finance half of the 30‐million‐franc project, with the remainder coming from private partners including the Gandur Foundation for Art. “We are very pleased to participate in the creation of this interaction laboratory,” said Jean Claude Gandur, who established the Gandur Foundation in 2010. “Art museums of the future should be able to invest more in interfaces, experience, and education than in the quantity of their exhibits.”
