BCU Internef et Bibliothèque Edouard Fleuret

The Humanities 1 building (BFSH 1, later renamed Internef) was the third to be built on the University of Lausanne’s new Dorigny campus between 1973 and 1977. Its architects Frédéric Brugger, with Edouard Catella and Erich Hauenstein were following the campus master plan established in 1967 by Guido Cocchi, which mandated a coherent grid for dimensioning spaces and floor heights and the use of glass and anodized aluminum for all facades. The main body of the building follows these indications to the letter, organized as two rectangular towers of 5 and 6 storeys for faculty offices fronted to the west by two lower two-storey pavilions, one for classrooms and the other for the library, separated by a courtyard leading to the partly covered terraced entrance. On the eastern side are a cluster of 5 hexagonal auditoriums of varying sizes, for which the architects opted to veer away from the material mandate and instead clad them in orange ceramic tiles. The law and humanities library has…