Innholdsfortegnelse for Summer 2024 i Sustainable Architecture & Building

JURY COMMENT: “This complex program of shelter, supportive housing and health services, so important to social sustainability, is appropriately contained in a simple form with a calming character. Material choice and detailing are thoughtful, with horizontal and vertical solar shading balancing the overall expression.” Site plan/first floor 1. Loading/receiving 2. Bed bug sauna 3. Donationås 4. Storage 5. Laundry 6. Training 7. Staff room 8. Operations 9. Vestibule 10. Lobby 11. Mail room 12. Pharmacy and harm reduction 13. Office 14. Exam 15. Comfort 16. Kitchen 17. Meeting room 18. Waiting room 19. Computer room 20. Activity room 21. Lounge 22. Dining room Since 1982, RainCity Housing and Support Society has addressed the needs of individuals living with homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. To address these needs in the City of Surrey, RainCity has developed…

JURY COMMENT: “This small house is a great example of how doing more with less is key to sustainability. It is appropriately sited, well designed, well detailed, well crafted and thoughtful in its execution. It is notable for its modesty and simplicity, yet the interior has a generous sense of space and light.“ This house was designed for an ambitious family on a five-acre property within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in the Fraser Valley community of Langley. The clients’ initial vision for the project included the goals of living smaller and more closely to the land and ultimately growing their own food. Heimaklettur (home rock) is named after their father’s hometown of Vestmannaeyjar in Iceland. The house form references contemporary Nordic dwellings featuring pitched roofs, lean-to additions, traditional wood…

JURY COMMENT: “This project takes an underutilized, poor performing and discarded single-storey retail building and transforms it with a variety of technical interventions that make it netzero, thus greatly extending its service life. Inside, the plain box has been enlivened with light, colour and cultural references.“ Located in Williams Lake, a city of 10,000 in the Cariboo Region of BC, this project represents the transformation of a 1500 sq.m singlestorey retail building into a NetZero Carbon Neutral office for the provincial government. It incorporates a suite of tenant Improvements, base building upgrades and energy retrofits. Together, these strategies enable the project to meet the GHG reduction requirements mandated by BC’s Climate Change Accountability Act, while at the same time following the Blueprint and Real Property Division guidelines for innovative service…

JURY COMMENT: “An exemplar in its suburban context, this project is notable for its many technical innovations. The use of rocks from the site to form its character defining gabion wall is one example of its thoughtful and creative use of durable, low impact materials. Space planning emphasizes functionality and flexibility.“ The Gabion House is a single-family house for a retired visually impaired couple and has been designed to support aging in place. The building features flexible spaces that accommodate multi-generational family events and generous food production and canning facilities. The house is located in a rural community of small farms and woodland parks close to Victoria on southern Vancouver Island. The site supported the owners’ desire to design for both the present and the future. Their design goals for…

JURY COMMENT: “A fine example of a building in which the form is driven by its performance targets, the sustainability strategies required, and the technologies employed to implement them. The result is simple and elegant, a radical and refreshing departure from the traditional architectural responses to this typology.“ 1. Apparatus bay 2. Captain’s office 3. Day room 4. Study 5. Kitchen 6. Fitness room 7. Patio 8. Dorms 9. Captain’s dorm 10. Universal change room 11. Duty gear locker 12. Generator 13. Garbage/recycling 14. Bio-swales Windermere’s Fire Station 31 is both symbolic and functional, extending the role of this building type as a trusted civic presence and anchor for the neighbourhood. The project site was unbuilt and unremarkable – essentially a blank slate. The challenge was to design an expressive structure that…

JURY COMMENT: “An incredible transformation of an existing building. While much of the upgrade is technically driven, elements such as solar shading have been used to reimagine its Modern identity. The transformation continues on the inside, with new daylighting and ventilation strategies opening up the spaces.” Floor plans 1. Main Entrance & Lobby 2. Corridor & Informal Learning Spaces 3. Office / Meeting 4. Labs & Classrooms 5. Workshops / Makerspace 6. Student Lounge 7. Team Collaboration Space 8. Storage 9. Stair 10. Washroom 11. Elevator 12. Mechanical 13. Electrical 14. Rooftop Antenna Lab The MacLeod Building renewal is the most comprehensive retrofit project completed at UBC to date. Driven by a pressing need to improve the seismic and climate resilience of the campus’ modernist architecture, the project transforms a 1963…

JURY COMMENT: “This project is notable for its richly mixed program; including student housing, academic areas and food services. Innovative and progressive, it makes a positive contribution to social life on the urban campus. Selective use of large windows and exposed wood in areas where people gather reinforce their connection to nature.” Čeqwəŋín ʔéʔləŋ (Cheko’nien House), the first of two buildings in the Student Housing and Dining project at the University of Victoria (UVic), embodies a transformative approach to student living and community engagement. Its unique design emphasizes social connectivity and sustainability. Site plan New building massing frames new housing commons. Landscape infills to adjacent buildings, reorganizing and reconnecting the pedestrian realm. The first two storeys house a 600-seat dining hall, a multi-purpose room for 200, a servery, and a…

JURY COMMENT: “This adaptive reuse of a 1950s commercial building is notable for its creative and comprehensive approach. Beyond the improvements in performance, the innovative repurposing of materials, such as tiles into countertops and existing studs into wood screens, make for a very elegant transformation.“ Site plan 1. 107 Marion Street 2. Parking lot 3. Restaurant 4. Cafe/clinic 5. Apartment 6. Small businesses The extensive retrofit of 107 Marion Street in Winnipeg showcases the adaptive reuse of a longtime vacant commercial building. The 300 sq.m building constructed in the 1950s was originally a fruit market with a residence above and is now home to an architectural office and photo studio space. The ambition for this project was to be a showcase for sustainable construction, taking a “re-think everything” approach: developing creative…