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Orillia Recreation Centre
Orillia Recreation Centre
Orillia, Canada
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Orillia Recreation Centre
Orillia, Canada
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2019
SIZE
100,000 sqft - 300,000 sqft
BUDGET
$50M - 100M
The Orillia Recreation Centre is a re-inhabitation and reclamation of an industrial brownfield site to create a new recreational and social heart. The project reimagines Orillia’s storied industrial past and references both the site’s previous use as a foundry and the City’s legacy of brick civic buildings. The built form of the facility is integrated into a 26-acre naturalized park that includes a wetland and is connected to the City’s trail system.
The 137,000-sf facility features an aquatic centre with a 25m 8-lane pool for instructional, training and competition use, and warm water therapy and leisure basins. The gymnasium component has two FIBA/FIVB courts with moveable acoustic dividing wall, separating the gym for multiple program use. The facility also features fitness centre, multipurpose spaces, community art gallery, and indoor track, with a connective tissue of civic spaces. Primary program spaces are clerestory and skylit, generating ‘perfect light’ for athletic and performance activities and light that diffuses throughout the building interior. A running track is integrated with the primary clerestory for the gym and fitness areas, offering exceptional north views back to the city centre.
Due to extensive contamination from foundry waste and gas residue from solvents in the groundwater the site was previously deemed uninhabitable. Careful work with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MOECC) in organizing the site uses, and significant capping and venting methodologies were deployed to transform a brownfield site into a safe civic facility. The legacy of impressive, brick civic buildings in Orillia and the site’s industrial past are maintained and reinterpreted with the bold masonry massing of the facility. A unique mix of recreational, social, and competitive spaces is curated, organized, and interconnected with the surrounding landscape to create a new form of vibrant civic space.
The 137,000-sf facility features an aquatic centre with a 25m 8-lane pool for instructional, training and competition use, and warm water therapy and leisure basins. The gymnasium component has two FIBA/FIVB courts with moveable acoustic dividing wall, separating the gym for multiple program use. The facility also features fitness centre, multipurpose spaces, community art gallery, and indoor track, with a connective tissue of civic spaces. Primary program spaces are clerestory and skylit, generating ‘perfect light’ for athletic and performance activities and light that diffuses throughout the building interior. A running track is integrated with the primary clerestory for the gym and fitness areas, offering exceptional north views back to the city centre.
Due to extensive contamination from foundry waste and gas residue from solvents in the groundwater the site was previously deemed uninhabitable. Careful work with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks (MOECC) in organizing the site uses, and significant capping and venting methodologies were deployed to transform a brownfield site into a safe civic facility. The legacy of impressive, brick civic buildings in Orillia and the site’s industrial past are maintained and reinterpreted with the bold masonry massing of the facility. A unique mix of recreational, social, and competitive spaces is curated, organized, and interconnected with the surrounding landscape to create a new form of vibrant civic space.
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