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Gillam Town Centre
This master plan study for Gillam Town Centre in northern Manitoba outlines a three phase proposal for a mixed-use development in Gillam that draw on residential, retail, commercial, and institutional programming. The master plan uses a large-scale physical model of the town that was used as a way to bring the town to the architects who were working 1,200km south in Winnipeg. The development can be assessed immediately in terms of its impact on the fabric of the Town. The model and accompanying drawings were presented to the Gillam and Fox Lake communities, the key stakeholders in the project.
Funded by Manitoba Hydro, the goal of the plan is to improve the commercial and residential infrastructure of Gillam anticipates the growth of the town to double its current size over the next five years. Hydros’ investment in the project reflects its stake as primary employer in this resource rich area. Two dams are slated for construction over the next two decades. Cooperating with Fox Lake Cree nation, Hydro has identified that the investment in services to residents of the region is of mutual and long-lasting benefit.
The master plan strengthens the core of Gillam by creating a new town centre along a kind of newly invented main street that currently does not exist. Strong retail corners will be established at the junctions of newly created intersections. A stretched town plaza becomes an anchor and links Manitoba Hydro’s offices to the Gillam Recreation Centre, the Town offices, and the local schools. Density is increased along the street by locating a new professional services building on the east side of the newly extended street. Despite cold climate and black fly season, pedestrian friendly streets - although reinvented for this context - will be indoor fashioned sidewalks that increase activity along the street edge and evolve into a great Hall within the Town Centre. Here, the stories of place, time, and people are revealed in photo, texture, artifact, and sound.
Funded by Manitoba Hydro, the goal of the plan is to improve the commercial and residential infrastructure of Gillam anticipates the growth of the town to double its current size over the next five years. Hydros’ investment in the project reflects its stake as primary employer in this resource rich area. Two dams are slated for construction over the next two decades. Cooperating with Fox Lake Cree nation, Hydro has identified that the investment in services to residents of the region is of mutual and long-lasting benefit.
The master plan strengthens the core of Gillam by creating a new town centre along a kind of newly invented main street that currently does not exist. Strong retail corners will be established at the junctions of newly created intersections. A stretched town plaza becomes an anchor and links Manitoba Hydro’s offices to the Gillam Recreation Centre, the Town offices, and the local schools. Density is increased along the street by locating a new professional services building on the east side of the newly extended street. Despite cold climate and black fly season, pedestrian friendly streets - although reinvented for this context - will be indoor fashioned sidewalks that increase activity along the street edge and evolve into a great Hall within the Town Centre. Here, the stories of place, time, and people are revealed in photo, texture, artifact, and sound.
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