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.