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Père-René-de-Galinée Catholic Secondary School
Père-René-de-Galinée Catholic Secondary School
Cambridge, Canada
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Père-René-de-Galinée Catholic Secondary School
Cambridge, Canada
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
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Our low-slung, white-brick addition refreshes an existing high-school building with thirteen new standard classrooms as well as a fitness room, science lab, home economics classroom, and special education suite.
The scope of this expansion project, which added several new standard and specialized classrooms to the existing high school, also entailed significant modifications to the site with respect to grading and circulation. The site plan required the accommodation of increased bus traffic, preservation of pathways to the school’s track and adjacent fields, and rerouting of an existing swale that was serving as a drainage corridor for numerous neighbouring properties and protecting a river course on the opposite side of the site.
Eschewing traditional and rigid classroom layouts in favour of more dynamic and versatile spaces, our design supports various teaching methods, individual study, collaboration, experiential learning, and socializing. Contemporary classroom design should result in social and learning condensers and encourage the creation of meaningful relationships and lifelong memories.
After exploring various schemes to execute this complex brief, which required reimagining significant outdoor components, we adopted a long double-loaded plan. This allowed us to preserve existing paths across the rear of the site through a crossing corridor that enables easy access from parking areas to the gymnasium and out to the existing athletic field. Views of the adjacent river and rural landscape are framed by large windows and high ceilings in the classrooms and corridors.
The scope of this expansion project, which added several new standard and specialized classrooms to the existing high school, also entailed significant modifications to the site with respect to grading and circulation. The site plan required the accommodation of increased bus traffic, preservation of pathways to the school’s track and adjacent fields, and rerouting of an existing swale that was serving as a drainage corridor for numerous neighbouring properties and protecting a river course on the opposite side of the site.
Eschewing traditional and rigid classroom layouts in favour of more dynamic and versatile spaces, our design supports various teaching methods, individual study, collaboration, experiential learning, and socializing. Contemporary classroom design should result in social and learning condensers and encourage the creation of meaningful relationships and lifelong memories.
After exploring various schemes to execute this complex brief, which required reimagining significant outdoor components, we adopted a long double-loaded plan. This allowed us to preserve existing paths across the rear of the site through a crossing corridor that enables easy access from parking areas to the gymnasium and out to the existing athletic field. Views of the adjacent river and rural landscape are framed by large windows and high ceilings in the classrooms and corridors.
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