Lausanne campus


The Lausanne campus or Dorigny university campus is a large area in Switzerland where the University of Lausanne, the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and several other institutions are located. It is in Dorigny, towards the west of Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva. The site is about 2.2 kilometres wide and 31,000 people study and work there.
It is served by Lausanne Metro line 1, from four consecutive stations, and possesses a bicycle sharing system.

History

In 1946, the citizens refuse a project of airport on the site. In 1963, the Canton of Vaud buy the property of Dorigny; at this time, the University of Lausanne is located in more than forty places in Lausanne.
The first building was built in 1969-1970; in 2013, the campus comprises about sixty buildings. The chief architect of the UNIL campus is Guido Cocchi.
The inauguration of the first EPFL buildings of the new campus took place in 1978.
The campus is mainly located on the municipality of Écublens but part of it are on Chavannes-près-Renens and Saint-Sulpice. The campus has its own postal code: 1015 Lausanne.
The Napoleon Oak, a magnificent tree growing in the middle of the campus, was planted in 1800 – individual branches of the tree have been subject to extensive whole genome sequencing.

Future developments

The Radio télévision suisse plan to move its centre of Lausanne to a new building on the campus, in 2019–2020.

Institutions

Other education and research institutions in Lausanne

Other education and research institutions in Lausanne includes: