Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne (in project)
First Prize

Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts, Lausanne (in project)

First Prize


Composed of a main building and two complementary ones, the project intends to define a new public space within a currently disused railway area, becoming an inhabited wall that serves as a neutral backdrop for urban life.

The wall of the original building is preserved, integrating it in one of the new facades with the aim of maintaining a symbolic and emotional relationship with the site’s history. With this operation, the preserved element becomes a sort of objet trouvé... [+]


Obra Work
Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne

Cliente Client
Cantón de Vaud, Etat de Vaud

Arquitectos Architects
Fabrizio Barozzi, Alberto Veiga

Jefe del proyecto Project Leader
Pieter Janssens

Equipo de proyecto Project Team
Marta Grzdziel, Shin Hye Kwang, Eleonora Maccari, Cristina Porta, Verena Recla, Laura Rodríguez, Agnieszka Samsel, Arnau Sastre, Agnieszka Suchocka, Maria Ubach, Cecilia Vielba, Roi Carrera

Colaboradores Collaborators
Fruehauf Henry & Viladoms (arquitecto local local architect); Pragma Partenaires SA (construcción project manager); Hüsler & Associés Sàrl (paisajismo landscape architect); Ingeni SA (estructuras structural engineer); Chammartin&Spicher SA, Scherler SA, BA Consluting SA (servicios services engineers); x-made SLP (fachadas facade consultant); Matí AG (iluminación lighting consultant); Ecoacoustique SA (acústica acoustic consultant); BOGNER.CC - die museumsplaner (museística museum expert); Sorane SA (física de edificios building physics); Bird-RDS SA (Desarrollo sostenible Durable development consultant); Christian Meldem (anti-incendios fire protection consultant);  Hügli AG (seguridad security consultant)