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Rolex Learning Centre: A New Interpretation of the Learning Environment

Part 2 Dissertation 2020
Mohamad Amirulamin Zakaria
Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool | UK
Rolex Learning Centre (RLC) in Lausanne, Switzerland is a learning institution that embodies not just world of books but also various programmes, emphasising on the user’s learning experience and needs.

The essay aims to explore the interior landscape of RLC in the context of open plan and immaterial labour concepts and how these concepts have been interpreted into its learning environment. The open plan concept is applied using one large rectangular and undulated floor with minimum walls and its reliance on the undulation to define its programme. The learning experience is further enhanced by implementing the immaterial labour concept in which, due to the emergence of leisure society, RLC is designed into a more relax, non- hierarchal and community-based working environment.

The study is further developed by analysing whether the concepts are comparable in creating a good learning environment. The final section briefly speculates RLC as a new learning platform highlighting on the user’s experience as a wanderer and learner with communication and collaboration as an essential way of acquiring knowledge.


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Brian Hatton
2020
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