Forward-thinking education requires contemporary concepts, including renovation of university infrastructure, which the French ministry of education has provided extensive funding to expand. An important goal of these reforms is to rethink outdated learning concepts. Technical progress, as well as new methods of communication between teaching institutes (students and teaching bodies) and the public, begin to question the traditional form of scientific libraries. The new Learning Centre ?Innovation? is part of a series of similar institutes tasked with stepping up to the new challenges and preparing for the future. 

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Architects: Auer Weber

Location: 2 Avenue Jean Perrin, 59650 Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
Project Associate: Prof. Stefan Niese

Project Manager: Eric Frisch, Nina Schuberth

Team: Markus Böhm, Carmen Duplantier, Gabriel Kiderlen; Julia Schmid, Jieqing Zhao

Area: 8800.0 sqm

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Aldo Amoretti

Local Architect: MorphoZ 2.0 architectes

Landscape Architect: Atelier Villes & Paysages

Structural Engineer And Electrical Planner: Maning

Energy Consultant: Symoé

Services Engineer: JLL Ingénierie

Guidance System: CL Design

Façade Planner: VS-A

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