Lausanne, 2012

Product Line
M

Application
Outdoor
Facade

Material
Stainless Steel

Building
Géopolis (UNIL)

Clients
Canton de Vaud
UNIL
University of Lausanne

Architect
IttenBrechbühl

General Contractor
baumag generalbau

Curtain Wall
Sottas

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Project: Géopolis in Lausanne, 2012, Product Line M

EXYD-M on stainless steel was choosen for the facade of a new university building in Lausanne.

Géopolis in Lausanne, Facade Partly Cladded with EXYD-M. Photo: Thomas Jantscher, September 2011.

EXYD produced six hundred customized stainless steel sheets with the surface EXYD-M. The surface of the sheets are shaped in a similiar way, but in fact the embossing pattern of all sheets differ from each other.

Photo above: Thomas Jantscher, September 2011.

Géopolis in Lausanne, Status April 2011, Building Partly Cladded with EXYD-M

Sottas, a leading swiss engineering and steel construction company, built the EXYD-M sheets into their compact facade elements and mounted them, covering around 30,000 sq ft of the facade.

Above: building partly cladded, status April 2011.
Below: very first installed panels, each with a length of 13 to 16 ft.

Géopolis in Lausanne, Very First Mounted Panels, Surface Type EXYD-M