BERNEX CAMPUS
Bernex, a village at the outer-edge of Geneva, requested a campus on a site bound
by a highway access ramp which excluded the possibility of building near it, there-
by limiting the usable area, and as well created significant noise pollution. On the
other side of the ramp an urban agricultural park is currently being planned. We
proposed to turn the disadvantage into a quality by placing a continuous cap over
the ramp, and then constructing, out of timber, the main classroom building over-
head. Columns and minimal cores on the ground floor allow porosity – connecting
the campus with the adjacent, agricultural field. The campus in turn becomes a
generous park in itself, with small pavilions containing facilities shared with the
public – sports halls, a cafeteria, a library and a performing arts hall. A vision; a
huge intervention – seemingly brutal, yet due to its existence, offers to society a
serene, collective space.
Year: 2021 Type:
Education Area: 42‘600m2
Campus, Bernex, Geneva, CH, 2020;
Competition;
Architecture: Studio Iannone & Atelier Amont : www.atelier-amont.ch; Collaborator(s): Marc Sanchez Alfonso;
Landscape: Studio Aster, Basel;
Structure: Mitsuhiro Kanada, ARUP, Tokyo;
Traffic Planning: CSD Engineers, Lausanne.
Year: 2021 Type:
Education Area: 42‘600m2
Campus, Bernex, Geneva, CH, 2020;
Competition;
Architecture: Studio Iannone & Atelier Amont : www.atelier-amont.ch; Collaborator(s): Marc Sanchez Alfonso;
Landscape: Studio Aster, Basel;
Structure: Mitsuhiro Kanada, ARUP, Tokyo;
Traffic Planning: CSD Engineers, Lausanne.
