A shared vision for campus development
What kind of campus in 2050? Dorigny looks like a small town with 35,000 users. To anticipate, channel and reflect on this development, UNIL and EPFL decided to draw up a joint master plan. They consulted campus users through discussion forums, an online survey and an exhibition.
Master plan for universities
The Higher Education Master Plan (SDHE) is built around the three keywords coherence, vision and sustainability.
Cohesion
The current and future development challenges facing UNIL and EPFL, located in the heart of the western Lausanne conurbation, are manifold: preserving the unique natural and landscape qualities of the Dorigny campus, accommodating a steadily growing student and professional population, external and internal accessibility, links with the surrounding communes and districts, and quality of life on the campus. The aim is to plan a "city within the city".
Vision
The project plans the development of the campus over the long term, to 2050 and beyond. Using an applied and forward-looking territorial approach, the vision of the campus's future, shared by its stakeholders, is set out in the master plan for the Hautes Ecoles, with five fundamental principles that act as a common thread:
The project is based on a vision of the campus's future.
- General: an ambitious and innovative campus in terms of sustainability
- Nature: a resourced, biodiverse and permissive campus
- Landscape and public space: a campus recognised as a major urban park
- Urbanisation and social considerations: a unified campus open to everyone
- Mobility: a connected, peaceful and pioneering campus
Sustainability
The objectives and measures developed in the master plan for the Hautes Ecoles respond concretely and creatively to the fundamental principles of the vision according to the four main themes addressed (nature, landscape and public spaces, urbanisation and social considerations, mobility). Indeed, sustainability has been the watchword of the entire project development process, proposing and developing innovative ideas in terms of enhancing natural and landscape heritage, building development and mobility.
The master plan for the Hautes Ecoles is therefore an evolving, non-binding strategic planning instrument that identifies the main common guidelines for the UNIL-EPFL campus. It also provides a time plan with short-, medium- and long-term development milestones for the measures to be implemented for each of the key themes.
It also provides a framework for the development of the campus.
In the long term, the campus will become an integral part of the agglomeration of western Lausanne and a great place to study, teach, work and live.