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Nottawasaga Pines Secondary School
Nottawasaga Pines Secondary School
Angus, Canada
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Nottawasaga Pines Secondary School
Angus, Canada
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2012
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The Nottawasaga Pines Secondary School is a stylish contemporary design offering a broad-based curriculum with an emphasis on student engagement and community partnerships all of which is crucial in the context of its small-town with a rural hinterland location.
Architecturally, the solution to engage students and reduce drop-out rates was to design a 'cool' facility where students want to hang out. A key strategy was to locate the Cafetorium in the heart of the school, make it open and transparent, visually connect it with the upper floors and open it to the rear landscaped Courtyard and the wooded lot beyond. This makes the student the focus of the design and the cafetorium, flooded with daylight and views, and surrounded by the commercial arts, the tech shops and athletics programming becomes a vital hub where students meet, interact and collaborate.
Light and transparency is central to the design and it fosters social connectivity, allows for passive supervision and is a deterrent to bullying.
Partnerships with municipal government resulted in providing the schools facilities it wouldn't be able to justify on its own, given its relatively small student community ' there's a shared municipal library, shared municipal sports infrastructure in an adjacent facility on the same site and a police detachment centre, all creating reciprocal community engagement.
Winner of the 2012 CEO Award for Environmental Stewardship, it features a geothermal energy HVAC system, xeriscaping, rainwater harvesting, high performance envelope, CO2 and daylight sensors, solar water heating and photovoltaic panels. The shared use of the site further enhances sustainability by more effectively using civil and transportation infrastructure.
All this was achieved on a site with seismic and geotechnical challenges due to an innovative light weight structural response using a raft foundation and a hybrid steel with insulated panel superstructure rarely used in school applications.
Architecturally, the solution to engage students and reduce drop-out rates was to design a 'cool' facility where students want to hang out. A key strategy was to locate the Cafetorium in the heart of the school, make it open and transparent, visually connect it with the upper floors and open it to the rear landscaped Courtyard and the wooded lot beyond. This makes the student the focus of the design and the cafetorium, flooded with daylight and views, and surrounded by the commercial arts, the tech shops and athletics programming becomes a vital hub where students meet, interact and collaborate.
Light and transparency is central to the design and it fosters social connectivity, allows for passive supervision and is a deterrent to bullying.
Partnerships with municipal government resulted in providing the schools facilities it wouldn't be able to justify on its own, given its relatively small student community ' there's a shared municipal library, shared municipal sports infrastructure in an adjacent facility on the same site and a police detachment centre, all creating reciprocal community engagement.
Winner of the 2012 CEO Award for Environmental Stewardship, it features a geothermal energy HVAC system, xeriscaping, rainwater harvesting, high performance envelope, CO2 and daylight sensors, solar water heating and photovoltaic panels. The shared use of the site further enhances sustainability by more effectively using civil and transportation infrastructure.
All this was achieved on a site with seismic and geotechnical challenges due to an innovative light weight structural response using a raft foundation and a hybrid steel with insulated panel superstructure rarely used in school applications.
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