IMD Nestlé Building

Following the New Learning Centre, the first building designed by the architects in 2002, and the New Meeting Place, completed in 2005, the last of the four buildings, the New Centre for Creative Learning, will be completed in early 2009. a construction programme that is part of the educational institution's desire to improve its infrastructure and expand its campus in order to offer facilities that match the school's excellent reputation worldwide. Housing mainly offices for researchers and a multifunctional auditorium, the programme is distributed within a simple four-storey volume. The integration into the slope reveals the entrance level on the south façade, which is slightly set back and entirely glazed. This layout gives the building a light and elegant appearance. Its façades are double-layered: the interior walls are entirely glazed, while the exterior is formed by horizontal slatted blinds. These blinds can be adjusted independently, according to the users' preferences. The façades thus express the centre's internal activity. The project's distinctive feature lies in the specific positioning of the circulation core in relation to the open floor plan: eccentric and slightly offset. This secondary volume, made of raw concrete, also serves as a bracing element for the steel structure. Inside, the choice of materials, limited to raw concrete, light wood and glass, gives pride of place to light, which penetrates freely, playing with the blinds.

IMD Nestlé Building

Project
IMD Nestlé Building
Program

Research building, teaching facilities and an auditorium

status
Built
location
Suisse, Lausanne
year
2002 - 2006
Client
IMD International Institute for Management Development
Floor area
1515 m2
Team
Lausanne

 Jacques Richter, Ignacio Dahl Rocha, Kenneth Ross, Alexis Wintsch, Mauro Branco, Christian Gonin, Santiago Pagés, Philippe Vauthey, Nicolas Walthert, Marco Turin

Structural
engineer
MP Ingénieurs conseils SA
Geotechnical
Karakas & Français SA
HVAC
engineer
AZ Ingénieurs Lausanne SA
Electrical
engineer
Betelec SA
Acoustical
consultant
Bernard Braune
Others
consultants
Géomètre Jean-Jacques Lehmann
Photo
credits
Yves André, Olivier Wavre
IMD Nestlé Building

IMD Nestlé Building

2002 - 2006 · Suisse, Lausanne · Public » Education

The IMD (Institute for Management Development) and its campus occupy a vast wooded park near Lake Geneva and Ouchy. In order to meet growing demand and the success of its courses and seminars, which attract between 5,000 and 6,000 participants each year, the institution has been implementing a programme of renovations, extensions and new buildings since 2000. The New Research Centre, also known as the ‘Nestlé Building’, is one of four buildings designed by Richter and Dahl Rocha for IMD.
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Project
IMD Nestlé Building
status
Built
location
Suisse, Lausanne
year
2002 - 2006
Client
IMD International Institute for Management Development
Floor area
1515 m2
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