In Renens, an industrial suburb of the Swiss city of Lausanne, architect Bernard Tschumi has transformed a former stocking factory into a design academy. The new Ecole contonal d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), under the direction of Pierre Keller, is now a 14,000-square-meter (151,000-square-foot) high-tech learning workshop.

More than 5000 square-metres of the Rollerwool 700 woollen carpet was laid in the auditoriums, offices and classrooms of the college. The dark melange of the floor gives the rooms tranquillity and depth, and the marvellous properties of the wool – which both deadens sound and balances humidity – serve to create a pleasant atmosphere.

The office of the Director, Pierre Keller, has a Feltro-cut 104 – a finely striped felt carpet.