A multicultural and dynamic campus. EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl
08/08/2022.
[Lausanne] Switzerland
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EHL Hospitality Business School, designed by Itten+Brechbühl, has been inaugurated in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland. An ambitious and modern proposal adapted to the needs of students and attentive to climate and environmental issues.
The three new residential, sports and leisure buildings now complete the new campus and maximize its spaces, optimizing its potential and developing its relationship with the surrounding natural landscape.
The three new residential, sports and leisure buildings now complete the new campus and maximize its spaces, optimizing its potential and developing its relationship with the surrounding natural landscape.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
Rendering. EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
Rendering. EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl.
The proposal was born from a participatory initiative, through a call to nine schools of architecture and landscaping from around the world. As of 2014, the architects of the Itten+Brechbühl joined the process and developed a project open to the local community that reflects the desire to promote social interaction.
In the centre of the campus, an emblematic farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century has been restored and equipped with new facilities. The building is a place of fun and relaxation and has a special place in the hearts of students on campus.
The project has been inspired by the concept of connectivity. Thus, all the buildings on the campus are joined by a kind of platform that houses the interior circulation and sports activities. Above, the buildings are organically arranged as green spaces.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.In the centre of the campus, an emblematic farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century has been restored and equipped with new facilities. The building is a place of fun and relaxation and has a special place in the hearts of students on campus.
The project has been inspired by the concept of connectivity. Thus, all the buildings on the campus are joined by a kind of platform that houses the interior circulation and sports activities. Above, the buildings are organically arranged as green spaces.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
Description of project by Itten+Brechbühl
The EHL Hospitality Business School Inaugurates its New Campus
After 5 years of construction, the new campus of the EHL Hospitality Business School was officially inaugurated on Friday, July 8, 2022. Designed by the architectural office of IB and realized in collaboration with Tekhne SA, this ambitious project reflects the rigor and excellence that have shaped the reputation of the EHL throughout the world. Today, the EHL has approximately 4,000 students enrolled on its three campuses in Switzerland and Singapore. In September 2022, students in Lausanne will begin benefiting from the new ultra-high-performance campus in terms of its state-of-the-art technology and teaching methods, but also in the ecological sense.
Three new buildings –residential, sports, and leisure facilities – now complete the new campus situated on the heights of Lausanne (Switzerland). The entire project will be completed in autumn 2022 with the execution of the glass roof and exterior landscaping.
EHL Hospitality Business School by Itten+Brechbühl. Photograph by Fernando Guerra.
A campus by students for students
Laying the groundwork for architectural reflection, the EHL became an idea incubator for a competition open to architecture students around the world. In the end, a master plan was developed by future architects from Portugal, Spain, and the United States. Starting in 2014, architects from the IB office joined the process and developed a project that engages contemporary issues as much as it adapts to tomorrow’s needs. EHL has completely rethought its campus in Lausanne, maximizing its spaces, optimizing its potential, and developing its relationship with the wider world as well as the natural landscape in which the campus is immersed. It is «A project designed to evolve,» according to Nils Gunzinger, Real Estate Services Director at EHL.
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Architects
Client
EHL Real Estate SA.
Contractor
Tekhne SA.
Area
60,530 sqm.
Dates
2019 > 2022.
Location
Route de Cojonnex 18, 1000 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Photography
Otto Rudolf Salvisberg, Otto Brechbühl. Itten+Brechbühl SA
IttenBrechbühl SA is an architecture firm established in Bern in 1922. It has a total of seven headquarters in Switzerland with approximately 300 employees in total. It is one of the main architectural practices in the Swiss market.
Its founders were Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and Otto Brechbühl, they established the office with the projects of the Hospital Lory, the Children's Home in Elfenau and the faculty buildings of the University of Bern. They became the architects of the Hoffmann-La Roche court. After Salvisberg's death, Brechbühl took over the office until he joined Jakob Itten in the 1960s with whom he grew the company to more than 200 employees. After the oil crisis, the collapse occurred and the workforce was reduced to 80 employees, of which a team of young architects won twelve awards in competitions that promoted the firm with the projects of the Technopark in Zurich, the treatment wing of the Hospital University of Zurich for example.
In 1993 Gartenmann & Partner AG acquired the shares of IttenBrechbühl AG, thereby increasing the number of employees to 200 again and opening new offices and subject areas.
In 2012, the majority of the shares were transferred to long-standing co-managers and the current ones are committed to further strengthening and expanding this healthy and better-positioned company. Its corporate structure is reflected by work processes, specific project programs and appropriate solutions, in which each project is assigned to an optimal dedicated team. Their main concept is innovation, the engine they use to help shape the future and create sustainable solutions. Of their latest works stand out the Zurich Airport Airside Centre (2013), the Head Office of the RTL Group in Luxembourg (2016) and the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (2020).
Its founders were Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and Otto Brechbühl, they established the office with the projects of the Hospital Lory, the Children's Home in Elfenau and the faculty buildings of the University of Bern. They became the architects of the Hoffmann-La Roche court. After Salvisberg's death, Brechbühl took over the office until he joined Jakob Itten in the 1960s with whom he grew the company to more than 200 employees. After the oil crisis, the collapse occurred and the workforce was reduced to 80 employees, of which a team of young architects won twelve awards in competitions that promoted the firm with the projects of the Technopark in Zurich, the treatment wing of the Hospital University of Zurich for example.
In 1993 Gartenmann & Partner AG acquired the shares of IttenBrechbühl AG, thereby increasing the number of employees to 200 again and opening new offices and subject areas.
In 2012, the majority of the shares were transferred to long-standing co-managers and the current ones are committed to further strengthening and expanding this healthy and better-positioned company. Its corporate structure is reflected by work processes, specific project programs and appropriate solutions, in which each project is assigned to an optimal dedicated team. Their main concept is innovation, the engine they use to help shape the future and create sustainable solutions. Of their latest works stand out the Zurich Airport Airside Centre (2013), the Head Office of the RTL Group in Luxembourg (2016) and the Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne (2020).
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