Active Community Node

The Active Community Node is focused on recreation, education and health services for the immediate and surrounding communities. Providing opportunities for year-round and seasonally responsive leisure activities, this building will offer a variety of indoor and outdoor recreation options. The school will serve the immediate population needs, along with the medical centre providing access to much needed health care amenities, serving every age. Spaces between the Recreation centre and the school yard could be shared, and students can make use of the recreation building and playing areas. Between the school and the recreation facility would be a Woonerf, to allow these facilities to function together. Permeable pavers would be used on this road.

Active Community Node:

SHARED STREET TYPOLOGY

Shift the some of the residential street design to woonerf, or the shared street where the pedestrian and vehicles share the same space. This slows traffic and supports social and play uses. Also known as a living street or home zone, where legal right of way is given to the pedestrian and the street is design as a shared space for pedestrians and vehicles.

Special Street, Douglas Fir Boulevard- A street which leads out of the green valley from the escarpment heading South towards 31 Street, SW and terminating at Westbrook Station. The train station goes underground at 31 Street, which allows for North- South movement along the Douglas Fir Boulevard and across Bow Trail. This Boulevard colors a naturalized ribbon of park space, treed with a selected native palette of vegetation along the boulevard, which includes a stormwater collection system.

Creekside Recreation Centre in Vancouver, BC an award-winning three-story LEED building, located just outside of the former Olympic Village, offers programs for all abilities and ages. With green certification, including a green roof, this facility showcases how city buildings can model sustainable infrastructure.

Connaught School, an urban four story school in Calgary.

Active Community Node:

Outdoor playing court is versatile and converts into a pleasure skating rink for the community. Playing surface in the summer can be used for a variety of court sports like basketball. School playground has a natural theme, using logs, loose parts and rocks for climbing structures. This movement captures imaginative risk taking and builds connections to nature, combating the nature deficit disorder. The community centre would include a natural outdoor classroom for school programs or interpretive learning and forest school programs. Additional building and amenities would include indoor gymnasium and outdoor sports field.