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MAKING THE GRADE For children returning to class, good school design provides a potent vaccination against the pandemic’s negative effects on learning.

By Rhys Phillips

COVER – L’École de l’Étincelle in the Chicoutimi district of Saguenay.

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NEEDS, NUMBERS, AND NUANCES Providing a home away from home for students amid housing affordability challenges is a tall task for universities.

By Jason Sedar & Evan Pavka

10 CAUGHT OUR EYE 12 SEEN HostMilano is an opportunity to take stock of upcoming trends in food-related industries and glimpse evolving consumption and dining habits.

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16 SEEN The ceramic tile artisans whose work crammed the aisles at Cersaie 2023 had more tricks up their sleeves than a Las Vegas magician.

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SAFE KEEPING In Calgary, a new mental health facility offers respite and care for children and youth.

By Shannon Moore

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38 OVER & OUT The Design Exchange undergoes yet another transformation.

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“Think of the children” is a line familiar to any regular viewer of The Simpsons. That shrill catchphrase of the Helen Lovejoy character, wife of Reverend Lovejoy, is an overwrought exhortation that, while hilarious, also has a critical purpose. Bill Oakley, a main writer on The Simpsons, has said the phrase was intended to emphasize how “think of the children” was used in debate; irrelevant, it sidetracked discussion from the original issues. Lovejoy typically screeches it whenever residents of Springfield debate a quarrelsome problem and logic fails them with comedic results. Satirizing its use in public discourse has gone far beyond the show: it has generated countless memes and even been given a trope: “Lovejoy’s Law,” which Edward Keenan defined in a Toronto Star article as “a diversion from a weak logical stance,” writing that true empathy toward children involved rational argument rather than manipulation.

If there is any area where it seems the need for rational argument is most necessary — and yet most difficult to hold on to — it is the debate around children’s welfare. We are always thinking of the children, and yet here we are, with approximately 1.2 million Canadian youth affected by mental illness, and among the adult population, 70 per cent of issues reportedly develop during their juvenile years, reports Shannon Moore in this issue.

The effects of isolation are one of the most-cited reasons for this escalating number of mental health issues, with blame being placed squarely on school shutdowns during to the COVID-19 pandemic.

But a growing overprotection of children, and the subsequent built environment that spread around it, was a factor well before the pandemic. One example is highlighted by Shelagh McCartney and Ximena Rosenvasser, two academics at Toronto Metropolitan University in an article posted on The Conversation, “student residences built in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom over the past 20 years prioritize privacy and risk isolation” over communal spaces to accommodate perceived student preferences. “This trend is to the detriment of students’ social spaces and should be questioned,” say the authors, citing copious research that outlines what we already know: how a lack of student socialization spaces negatively affects students’ academic performance and well-being.

“A student’s living situation is a key component of their university education,” say McCartney and Rosenvasser. “Universities and developers need to focus on building student housing that

fosters community building in order for socialization and new relationships to occur.”

Isolation and its impediment of the development of socialization skills is being felt today as the new crop of Gen Z graduates enter the workforce. According to a recent poll by recruitment firm Robert Walters, just 19 per cent of Gen Z professionals say they prefer to work in a team setting, with 31 per cent stating that they “work better alone.” In correlation, nearly half of managers state that the biggest impact to Gen Z’s entering the workforce is the decline in collaborative working, with a lack of communication skills (53 per cent), team working (21 per cent), and critical thinking (17 per cent) from younger workers being the primary barriers to this.

This certainly doesn’t make it any easier for companies who are trying to bring five generations under one roof in a hybrid working world. Perhaps in a gesture of bridge building, Robert Walters suggested that companies should look at “adding soft skills development, such as problem-solving and leadership skills, to training and development programmes from the onset at onboarding stage and throughout Gen Z’s career trajectory.” Wait, soft skills development should now be the workplace’s responsibility? Isn’t that what school is for? I can hear Lovejoy in the background.

Tracing the thread of this problem takes us beyond the pandemic to where socialization has historically been learned: elementary school.

And tells us what we know intuitively: kids need to interact with each other, in every way possible. Regardless of the grade level, subject matter or class size, today’s best learning spaces must be designed for participative and engaging learning experiences. Called “active learning,” these spaces need to improve movement, communication, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. Today, this is especially important given the setbacks so many students experienced during the pandemic, which while not the sole cause of socialization problems, was like throwing gasoline on a brush fire.

A broadened, whole-learner approach goes beyond academics and recognizes the importance of motivation, engagement and student well-being in all aspects of their development, not just the classroom. And as we return to in-person experiences, creating a positive school environment that fosters social interaction has never been more important.

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Giannone Petricone Associates transforms a heritage Toronto postal station into an original culinary experience.

Creatively Compact: Humber Residence

Batay-Csorba Architects create a new infill project in Toronto’s Baby Point neighbourhood.

Returning Home: Kitsilano Heritage Project Madeleine Design Group converts a heritage home in Vancouver’s Kitsilano district back into a modern singlefamily dwelling.

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// 11 Rock Me Gently, Rock Me Slowly The Montréal-based creators behind the Musical Swings, Daily tous les jours, are taking the concept of collective motion for another spin with Daydreamer, a sculptural series of interactive, slowly rocking benches. When people sit and push the benches, music and light animations are triggered through motion detection. Each bench accommodates up to four people and is finished in Canadian white oak, with a powder-coated aluminum arch. Interactive LED lights are integrated in the arch and under the seat to emphasize movement.

The benches rock in four quarters or rotate 360˚ with a bit more push from the user.

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Get Into My Car Chicago-based artist Noel Mercado went junkyard diving and came away with salvaged auto parts and accessories that he used to turn several Knoll chairs into oneof-a-kind artworks. Inspired by a love of cars and an even deeper fascination with repurposing trash, he turns the Cesca Chair into a muti-sensory concept using hundreds of “Little Trees” air fresheners; car speakers give the Spoleto Chair a completely new purpose; and seatbelts on the Wassily Chair (shown) “hold you up rather than holding you in,” according to Mercado. “Deconstructing Knoll furniture has taught me a lot about structure, materials, beauty, and the balance between them all. I’m just trying to contribute a new perspective on what already exists.”

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Lay Me Down Vancouver-based Schédio Spaces Inc. took inspiration from the art of origami for the Ptychí bench, whose name derives from the Greek for “to fold.” Designed for Jun Studio beauty salon, the pieces are grounded and sturdy yet play with negative space to inject a feeling of lightness. A geometry of creases and contours aim to support the body while custom cushions made of vegan leather and sustainably made memory foam support the eco-conscious, all while getting your lashes done.

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No Dead Plate Here The bi-annual HostMilano fair is an opportunity to take stock of upcoming trends in professional hospitality and food-related industries and even catch a glimpse of evolving consumption and dining habits.

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1 Craft | Vista Alegre Tableware design is typically intended to highlight the food’s ingredients and preparation, but can sometimes also function as an independent, sensual object in itself. There is certainly an art in plating, so why not some plate art? The Craft collection by an award-winning Portuguese porcelain company achieves this, making one think that even a meal of Kraft Dinner could be elevated to a moment of gastronomic delight. www.vistaalegre.com

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2 Mytico | Franke Coffee Systems Catering to coffee shop chains, quick service restaurants, bakeries, and trendy bars, this line merges the classic look of a traditional coffee machine with the convenience of an automatic one. Easier to use and a reduced height means baristas can engage with customers more easily, and being equipped with two coffee modules means two employees can operate the machine simultaneously. www.franke.com 3 Giulietta | Bugatti Winner of a 2023 Red Dot Award, the shape of the Giulietta kettle is inspired by architecture, art, and fashion. The spherical body made of 18/10 stainless steel gives the object a compact volume with a capacity of 1.2 litres. A single touch is enough to start the heating process, which stops automatically when the boiling point is reached. www.casabugatti.it

4 L-Type SA | Nurri What do Italians love? Espresso and cars. What did the Napoli-based coffee machine maker do here?

Combine the two. Well, not exactly, but that giant lever sure looks a lot like the stick shift in an Italian sports car, doesn’t it? “Take control and drive your coffee during the extraction thanks to the Servo Assisted Lever, which allows you to perform more functions using the Side Paddles,” says the awkwardly translated promo material, doing nothing to dispel the allusion. www.nurri.cofee

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5 Tevere | Nardi Designed by Raffaello Galiotto, this new eco-friendly outdoor extensible table has a recyclable aluminium base and slatted top in regenerated plastic, which is also 100 per cent recyclable. Designed without any sharp corners, the integrated extension system allows the structure to slide while the legs always remain at the ends of the top. www.nardioutdoor.com

6 Babila Twist | Pedrali Designed by Odoardo Fioravanti, this tubular steel frame armchair available in six colours is characterized by a fully recyclable weather-resistant polypropylene flat rope covering which earned a Green Smart Label. At the end of its life, the seat slats can be completely unscrewed making them easy to disassemble and recycle. www.pedrali.com 7 Yuki Collection | Mesa Ceramics Winner of a 2023 German Design Award, this collection’s name is derived from the Japanese word for “snow” and inspired by Japanese lakes situated at the base of mountains and which change colour according to the season. Reactive glass is complemented with digital printing technology, with the edges of chunky bowls and asymmetric plates overlapping shades of green, yellow and blue from inside-out. www.mesa-ceramics.com

8 Boom Sofa | Plust While other items from the Boom collection had already been introduced in 2022, the sofa and coffee table made its debut this year. Meant to encourage socialization and conviviality, the sofa features a curved shape that provides a modern look and is part of the collection designed by Marco Gregori. The pieces are made with plastic mixtures and can be illuminated from within. www.plus.it

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For Our Next Act Playing with colour, texture, prints; evoking natural elements like stone and botanicals; employing trompe l’oeil and architectonics: the ceramic tile artisans whose work crammed the aisles at Cersaie 2023 had more tricks up their sleeves than a Las Vegas magician.

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2 The Room | Cooperativa Ceramica Imola Four new collections have been added to the ever-expanding series, all of which integrate enhanced marble-effect aesthetics, including the eye-catching Onice Aragosta. This product is part of the Onice (onyx) family, and the variation interpreted is known as “Aragosta” (lobster) precisely because it has wide brown-orange veins extending across a cerulean blue background. www.imolaceramica.com

At the ripe young age of 40, the international exhibition of ceramic tile and bathroom furnishings known as Cersaie continues to be a hub for architects, interior designers, specifiers and tile producers who convene to be impressed by new techniques and be reminded of effects they already know they love.

1 Diamond | Atlas Concorde Part of the new Marvel Meraviglia collection inspired

by Calacatta Meraviglia marble, Diamond is a collaboration with Zaha Hadid Architects that “blends a classic mosaic with a disruptive element,” says Paolo Zilli, associate director of ZHA. “Like an inclusion in a diamond, the insertion of a foreign body into a crystalline structure lends an unexpected dynamism to the strict repetition of the rigid geometric structure.” Touch is also considered with the addition of Velvetech, the new patented surface that recalls the look of polished natural stone, featuring semiopaque effects on the surfaces it’s applied to. www.atlasconcorde.com

3 Italian Landscape | Ceramica Fioranese This collaboration with 23Bassi architecture studio mines the deep love of Italian architectures, monuments, landscapes, works of art and nature that, if observed carefully, “reveal an iconic and replicable visual synthesis,” say the designers, such as stylized graphic motifs inspired by the landscape symbols of Florence, L’Aquila and Siena (shown) reproduced on ceramic surfaces. www.coemfioranesevents.com 4 Lamiere | Apavisa Metallics are still popular in ceramic design and getting better and better each year, with the glazing industry working with benign minerals solutions to achieve reliefs reminiscent of Corten steel and oxidized metals, in a sustainable and healthy way. www.apavisa.com 5 Project Wood | Casalgrande Padana This new porcelain stoneware collection developed with SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli replicates the warm tones of beech wood and emphasizes the planks’ delicate veining and grain that is different in every tile of every size, creating warm and cozy Scandinavian-style settings. Available in five colours and two formats all applicable to indoor and outdoor settings. www.casalgrandepadana.com

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6 Bit | WOW Consisting of unusually small tiles, this collection format conjures up the world of digital graphics since, thanks to its size, visual effects reminiscent of digital ones can be achieved. Bit’s rectangular tiles come in a 3.7x11.6cm format and its square ones in a 11.6 x11.6cm format in a choice of nine colours and a matte or high-glaze finish. www.wowdesigneu.com 7 Segni | Lea Ceramiche “Colour is itself a material thing, a pigment which penetrates the slab to become part of it, in tones and in touch,” says Ferruccio Laviani, an ongoing collaborator and designer behind a new series of decorative effects overlaid onto 12 contemporary solid colours with imperfect lines and painted droplets to create textured reliefs, evoking figurative motifs from the 1960s and experiments with conceptual art. www.ceramichelea.it 8 Art Walls | Flaviker Drape, Tapis, Metal (shown) and Frost are new designs added to the line and, yes, they look exactly like their names. Unnervingly so but also nothing new. Artisans have been creating the look of three-dimensional spaces on two-dimensional surfaces for ages, from painting and sculpture to set design. Italian manufacturers are just getting better and better at applying optical illusions to porcelain. www.flavikerpisa.it 9 Windy | Decoratori Bassanesi The ripples, swirls and patterns wind creates on water, across rice paddies and grasslands have inspired the new collection by Oki Sato, chief designer and founder of Japan’s renowned Nendo design studio. Chisels, drills, and bits in different shapes and sizes were used to create grooves in smooth plaster, revealing how subtle differences in their depth and cross-section change the perception of shadows. www.decoratoribassanesi.it

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Set the Tone From colour options to material formulations, paint companies are reacting to our feelings regarding the state of the planet.

Mellow Mood | Clare A little lighter than the startup company’s best-selling Current Mood, this cool gray-green complements neutrals or contrasts well with a colour pop. As with the rest of the catalogue, the new shade is formulated to be zero-VOC, GREENGUARD Gold certified, and free of toxic air contaminants. www.clare.com

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// 21 Sun-soakin’ bulges As they always do, the experts at Pantone Color Institute cast their gaze far and wide to identify what is influencing the mood of the time. This can include the entertainment industry and films in production, travelling art collections and new artists, fashion, all areas of design, popular travel destinations, as well as new lifestyles, playstyles, and socio-economic conditions.

After all that exposure, where did the experts land for the 2024 Colour of the Year? Pantone 13-1023 Peach Fuzz, which “captures our desire to nurture ourselves and others. It’s a velvety gentle peach tone whose all-embracing spirit enriches mind, body, and soul,” according to the company.

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“In seeking a hue that echoes our innate yearning for closeness and connection, we chose a colour radiant with warmth and modern elegance,” says Leatrice Eiseman, executive director, Pantone Color Institute. “A shade that resonates with compassion, offers a tactile embrace, and effortlessly bridges the youthful with the timeless.”

Colour cast 1 Blue Nova | Benjamin Moore An outer space-inspired blend of blue and violet shades has been named the company’s 2024 Colour of the Year.

“An alluring mid-tone that balances depth and intrigue with classic appeal and reassurance,” said Andrea Magno, colour marketing and development director at Benjamin Moore. “The Colour Trends 2024 palette tells a story of duality, juxtaposing light against dark, warm and cool, showcasing complementary and contrasting colour pairings. These contrasts invite us to break away from the ordinary to explore new places and collect colour memories that shape the hues used in our homes.” www.benjaminmoore.ca 2 Upward | Sherwin-Williams Representing “the gentle forward momentum in all of our lives,” says Sue Wadden, director of colour marketing at Sherwin-Williams of the company’s 2024 Colour of the Year, “it brings to life that carefree, sunny day energy that elicits a notion of contentment and peace.

With this colour, we invite our consumers to take a pause and infuse a new sense of ease and possibility into their spaces, one that doesn’t overwhelm, but rather establishes meditation and tranquility.” www.swcoty.com 3 Cracked Pepper | Behr Paint “As we look into 2024, creating a sense of comfort and belonging will continue to drive design decisions. But now, as life returns to its more familiar rhythms, it’s time to allow our senses to come alive,” says Erika Woelfel, vice president of colour and creative services at Behr Paint Company. “From heightening the aromas of a dining room to feeling the softness of a living area, Cracked Pepper enhances the natural expression in any space.” www.behr.com/2024coty

4 Hair of the Dog | Alkemis Paint Now available to the trades in Canada, this new “wellness” paint formulation contains earth minerals such as a clear quartz base (believed to encourage balance, harmonization of the chakras, and facilitation of deep energy cleansings) and renewable potassium silicate, and are free from toxic pigments, hazardous organic pollutants (HAPs), plasticizers, preservatives, biocides, and alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs), and the manufacturing process is 100 per cent emission-free. Even the can considers the environment: made of steel, it can be recycled almost infinitely. www.alkemispaint.com

While paint companies plant their flags on a colour they believe will trend for the upcoming year, forecasting companies make it their business to prognosticate much further down the timeline.

For example, WGSN (focusing on consumer and design trends) and sister company Coloro (focusing on colour) have announced the colours they believe will be adopted by 2026.

“Our Key Colours for A/W 25/26 reflect urgency, repair and reassurance as we face new necessities in this new reality globally,” says Urangoo Samba, Head of Colour for WGSN. “Acceleration is the overarching theme of our A/W 25/26 Global Colour Forecast. As the climate crisis brings chaos and strange omens of decline, we will see an acceleration of change, both good and bad.”

Five colours are highlighted in the Forecast with Future Dusk the most prominent, singled out as the 2025 Colour of the Year. “2025 will be the year of strategic imagination, when individual and collective creativity will be harnessed to generate new economic and ecological solutions,” said WGSN in a release. “Future Dusk aligns with this theme, sitting between blue and purple, and bringing a sense of mystery and escapism through its dark and moody qualities. This surreal and otherworldly shade also has a celestial and futuristic character, inspired by the emergence of the second space age. It aligns with themes of moving from darkness to light, dusk to dawn, preparing us for new horizons.” www.wgsn.com

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Making the Grade The pandemic has affected Canadians at almost every level of their lives, not the least children both in terms of their education and their mental well-being. Two Québec schools, Bedford Elementary in Montréal and L’École de l’Étincelle in Ville de Saguenay, although designed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, demonstrate how earlier rethinking of children’s pedagogy has dovetailed with requirements to successfully navigate the difficult transition back to in-class learning.

Bedford Elementary School Originally constructed in the 1940s, Bedford Elementary School was deemed by the Montréal School Board to have serious asbestos and pyrite contamination with outdated educational spaces. Equally important, the school is in Côte-des-Neiges, a multicultural borough where the vast majority of residents are recent immigrant families, contributing to rapid student growth that stretched the school’s capacity to the breaking point, according to architect Ivan Rodriquez, Concept Director at GR7 Architecture.

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This spread Originally built in the 1940s, Bedford Elementary School no longer met today’s pedagogical needs due to a lack of facilities and spaces. The expansion includes seven new classrooms, a double multi-purpose room, a gymnasium, and a library, in addition to nine existing preschool classrooms that had to be rebuilt. A floor addition allowed for a new entrance to the childcare services with a more open waiting area for parents. The locker spaces are integrated and separated from the hallways by openwork panels, giving a sense of width to the hallways. All preschool classrooms have a large bay window between the classroom and the hallway, allowing natural light into the hallways. The library has a large corner window with a platform and movable reading nooks for students to climb into.

The school’s urban location posed strict limitations on how expansion could take place. To avoid building on the exterior courtyards, it was decided to renovate one single-story wing and replace the other wing with a new, two-storey addition. The latter contains seven new classrooms, a double multi-purpose room, a gymnasium and a library that all complement the nine rebuilt preschool classrooms. The massing, scale and exterior materials continue the school’s comfortable integration with the residential neighbourhood, even including turquoise painted architectural elements that retain the school’s original colour.

A new entrance, sheltered under the cantilevered library provides a protected waiting area for parents and leads into the children services area. Natural light and transparency play crucial roles in the design’s comforting interior. Large classroom windows allow views to the street and the courtyards ensuring sunlight floods the teaching spaces. Lighting, views to the exterior, the presence of natural light

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Above Located at the heart of Joachim Park in Saguenay, École de l’Étincelle is made entirely of wood, from its architectural frame to its interior design. Outside, a courtyard is tucked within the U-structure of the school, with a sports circuit, outdoor classroom, garden, and other outdoor leaning opportunities. Opposite page In the central wing, a series of bleachers serve as gathering and collaboration space, acting as a landmark learning hub offering visible connections to all communal spaces.

hall. The panels’ Russian birch plywood contribute to a natural and warm ambiance while incorporating one of the most durable natural surfaces for an always hectic environment.

is required because children “must not feel isolated and [they] have to be able to breath,” says Rodriquez. “We design so young kids won’t feel too tight, too crowded within the space.”

Atop the sheltered entrance, the new library and integrated creative space adds key functional areas largely missing in the old school.

The high ceiling library boldly confronts the street with a generous corner window into which is tucked an expansive two-level platform for students to lounge, to read or to stage a play.

But the architects introduced wider corridors with a twist that not incidentally helps tease in natural light to this inner space. As the messy locker spaces are located right outside the classroom, they are shielded from the prime circulation corridor by bold linear wood panels, one for each classroom. These are perforated with multiple large and small circular holes while an undulating horizontal line of cork accommodates artwork pin-ups. Above the lockers, large clerestory windows bring natural light from the classroom, which is then further teased through the panel perforations into the circulation

Similarly, the gymnasium at its ground level opens to Bedford Street residences thus optimizing natural light although, based on careful sun studies, minimizing glare. Again, wood, this time white pine, provides a reassuring natural aesthetic and improves acoustic performance. Punctuating the pine upper wall, a large square window also faces the street and is aligned across the gym with its twin, an observation window terminating the second-floor corridor. Just before reaching this interior window, a glass curtain wall provides more natural light and views to the courtyard over a planted green roof.

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Rodriquez emphasizes that they used not just the warmth of natural materials but also colours “to mark the classrooms because it helps the young students to find their classroom easily […] especially important for the younger ones.” Reds are avoided as too aggressive, instead blues, greens, and pastel yellows are used as more relaxed and able to facilitate concentration. The library ceiling is left open and painted black but interspersed with coloured “clouds” of acoustic panels. Its large green wall also serves as an actual “green wall” for videos produced by students in the nearby creative space. The gym’s deck is also green, matching the line that runs down the first-floor corridor providing wayfinding to the gym’s entrance.

an appropriate scale for children. “When you look at the project,” says Etienne Bernier, principal of Agence Spatiale, “rather than one large building we contribute to [this objective] by giving a smaller scale to the project that is closer to the [children’s] residential one.”

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A school’s complexity was also reduced to easily readable spaces with clear reference points, easy identification, and flexibility. By so doing, the architects write, the school’s design seeks “to create a calming and reassuring atmosphere that will encourage students to love school and feel comfortable, just like at home.” At the same time, the goal was to reflect the children’s life experience living in a small Saguenay community with its modest domestic architecture and strong ties to the natural environment.

The competition winning L’École de l’Étincelle is appropriately focused on creating a comfortable, inclusive, and inspiring learning environment that supports students’ development and well-being. To achieve this goal, Agence Spatiale, APPAREIL Architecture and BGLA architecture + design urbain deconstruct the conventional institutional building into a more accessible and welcoming environment at

On the curved slope of a natural bowl, this deconstruction took the form of three wings, each shaped by a cluster of pitched-roof “houses.” Two teaching clusters branch out V-like from a Community Learning Hub featuring a uniquely stepped library and a sunken gym as well as Creative and Culinary Labs. Along a street, the

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This spread Classrooms are in the left wing and bathed in northern sunlight. Collaborative spaces in the middle of each classroom mimic public squares and encourage mutual support, teaching students to work as a team. The entire building is temperature controlled through centralized air-source heat pumps combined with hot and cold hydronic radiant floors to ensure comfort throughout all months of school occupancy.

south wing is formed by two modest “cottages” linked to the Hub by a flat-roof covered entrance that also serves as a protected outdoor classroom. This last element also serves as an entrance to the Hub. The upper level contains staff facilities while below street grade are light-filled preschool classrooms that open directly onto the secure courtyard.

Similarly, the Community Hub, a key activity and learning centre for the entire community, also appears as two, single level, albeit much taller houses or perhaps barns. But once inside, one confronts the voluminous library whose seven tiers step up from the entrance level to a heavily glazed back wall or down to the courtyard level viewed through a full height glazed wall with doors. A bridge spanning this remarkable space leads to the creative Lab with state-ofthe-art digital technologies. Beside this space and overlooking a

park, the Culinary Lab and its restaurant-scale kitchen reflects the Centre de Services Scolaire des Rives-du-Saguenay’s commitment to nutrition as an education priority. The children grow and harvest their own produce in school gardens.

Under these second storey spaces, and visible through a viewing window, is a gym that sinks an extra layer into the landscape. All these common spaces, save the gym, overlook the courtyard and provide a separate focus for the excited buzz of student activities away from the calmer learning environments. “It’s easy to find your way around the building because you always know where you are. It also lets you see that you’re not alone, a sense of presence that can be reassuring for the kids,” says Bernier.

The third, two-storey wing contains classrooms for grades one to three on the lower courtyard level with grades four to six above. It is formed by three distinct sloped-roof structures, creating homescaled learning spaces. Each grade has its own learning community, with distinct colours to help students orient themselves. The older the children, Bernier reports, the cooler the colour becomes as stud-

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ies have shown that young children react better with warmer colours, but when they get older they go more into the blues.

“international building” in the middle of nowhere,” says Pariseau, not surprising given her strong appreciation of the Nordic aesthetic.

Collaborative spaces within the classrooms encourage teamwork and diversify traditional learning models. Between each of these teaching houses are “interstices,” informal areas shared often with a stairwell.

These spaces are flooded with natural light and provide orienting visual connections to the courtyard and the park. These more autonomous spaces contain small bookcases maintained by the individual teachers as well as comfortable seating for relaxing, collaboration, reading or just socializing. “I think it’s not just about restraining the person in space,” says Kim Pariseau, principal of Appareil Architecture.

“It’s more about how the space can create many, many experiences.”

The school’s electromechanical and ventilation system, a crucial concern after the pandemic, employs air-source heat pumps and hydronic radiant floors. The entire displacement ventilation system has been unobtrusively integrated into the architecture including using the library as an oxygen replacement lung.

Like Bedford, L’École de l’Étincelle employs natural light, colour, flexible collaborative spaces and clear orientation devices to instil a sense of comfort, security and well-being for its young students.

Additionally, the Saguenay school also relies heavily on wood, both cedar and pine, for its structure and finishes, not incidentally a ubiquitous local resource. “It’s reassuring. It’s not about depositing an

The school’s protective U-shaped courtyard, designed by landscape architects Rousseau Lefebvre and Collectif Escargo, is an important extension of the interior’s teaching functions. Its protective microclimate supports the research-based benefits of exterior learning spaces. Again, particular attention has been paid to scale, graphic orientation and using local natural plantings to create “enveloping subspaces reminiscent of cocoons,” write the architects.

Like evidence-based healthcare facility design, these school, rigorously based on understanding children’s needs, succeed even in responding to a disruptive pandemic.

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raduation from high school is a critical point in a young person’s life. Now they face the possibility of no longer having a family framework to guard them as they begin their collegiate years. Their housing situation can play a critical role in determining which college to attend. As such, student housing is a major investment: for the schools, but also for students, their parents, and the supporting agencies. These home-away-from-home spaces need to provide safety, comfort, engagement, and resiliency.

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Thankfully, schools are getting better at seeing the need for amenities and the significant role student housing plays in creating a vibrant and supportive campus. Residents need the right amount of personal security and space to focus on their academic goals. And the right student housing also fosters mental and physical well-being.

Providing a home away from home for students amid housing affordability challenges is a tall task for universities.

As the population grows, so does the need for housing. For the year ending 2022, Canada reported an increase in population of over one million people, representing a 2.7 per cent growth rate. It’s the highest number in Canada since 1957. Meanwhile, housing affordability in Canada has worsened in the last 20 years. In 2005, Canadians’ monthly mortgage payments on a median-priced home were about 35 per cent of Canadians’ average income. In 2022, that number peaked at 68 per cent for Canadians and over 100 per cent for residents of Vancouver, where population growth and foreign investment have changed the urban context.

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Previous page and above At the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, B.C., Nahoonai-a provides a tailored housing experience for Indigenous students. Programmed into the building is a cultural space for social activities on the ground floor, including a large community kitchen and living space for students to gather and socialize. Study

spaces were included to provide separate areas for students to meet outside of their private rooms, but with the intent to collaborate and focus on education. A large gathering place anchors the main level program and opens to the east and west cardinal directions, and is fitted with a separate exhaust fan system for ceremonial purposes.

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In 2018, the government released a budget that had a plan to build 114,000 affordable housing units over the next 10 years. The budget also set aside $450 million for a student housing loan program that made funds available to colleges and universities to build 5,000 oncampus student housing beds in 10 years. Institutions are adding 3,000 more beds with other funding sources.

To date, 11 public post-secondary institutions have new student housing projects underway or completed.

Investments in housing, investments in students: College of New Caledonia Student housing is not a silver bullet, but it’s chipping away at a handful of existing challenges. One such example is Nahoonai-a, designed by Stantec for the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, which has a large Indigenous student body that comes from various remote areas of the province. The 12-bed housing project was the first of its kind in the province, built to be a welcoming place, familiar yet modern, where First Nations students would come to live with their peers and an Elder.

Inspired by the local geography and First Nations Lheidli T’enneh Band, the name Nahoonai-a means “The People from the confluence of the two rivers,” as Prince George is situated at the union of the Nechako and Fraser Rivers. The two-storey wood frame structure brings together two contrasting materials that serve to provide both natural elements (wood) and protection from the harsh winters (sheet metal). The metal wraps the building on all sides and leaves exposed the ends of the building where wood faces both the public and campus sides of the site.

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Built to meet the requirements of the B.C. Energy Step Code 4, Nahoonai-a includes a communal kitchen designed so students can build relationships with their peers and amenity spaces for cultural gatherings. An apartment-style unit was included for a live-in local Elder, who can provide support and cultural guidance.

One of the student housing projects funded through the British Columbia Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills’ loan program, Nahoonai-a was designed to feel like home and to bring a level of inclusivity to the college for students.

Jason Sedar is an Associate, Project Manager at Stantec, working predominantly with the educational sector and post-secondary institutions.

Investments in housing, investments in students: University of British Columbia This ongoing housing crisis is acutely felt by the University of British Columbia, with just over 20 per cent of its student population living on campus. To combat the absence of suitable off-campus accommodations, the institution adopted a strategic housing plan in 2012 to dramatically expand space for students, staff and faculty. The recently inaugurated t šxwh lel m’s t k’ waƛ̓ kw ʔaʔɬ (meaning “The Houses of the Ones Belonging to the Saltwater” in Musquem) is the latest addition to this ongoing initiative.

Conceived in a strategic partnership between local practices Ryder Architecture and Hotson Architecture, the 365,900-sq.-ft. project not only adds 940 more beds for upper-year students to UBC’s portfolio but new public amenities as well. Nestled on a narrow northeastern site, the complex comprises five distinct “houses” — each generously bequeathed its own name in h n’q’ min’ m’ by the Musqueam Indian Band — that gracefully wrap around existing student residences. “It looks like five buildings,” explains Kai Hotson, founder and principal of his eponymous studio, of the slender profiles, “but many of them are interconnected.” To wit, the individual structures vary in height (between seven and 10 storeys), length

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Previous page and this spread The Houses of the Ones Belonging to the Saltwater consists of five buildings located around the 1970s Walter Gage Student Residence precinct.

A “commonsblock” of communal spaces include spacious study lounges with co-located laundry rooms found in each building, and a large bleacher stair connecting the ground and basement floor levels, creating activity and views between shared student

spaces. The residences follow two program typologies: typical student housing and upgraded units for summertime hotel use. The “hotel” units have a higher specification for interior design and furnishings, including built-in desks, TV/storage units, as well as upgraded corridors featuring glazing at each end for natural daylight, and wall covering elements framed with metal trims and recessed lighting.

and cladding (white and dark brick) to “break up the massing” and “to break down the overall scale,” he says.

The resulting intimacy, transparency and urban connection also extends inward. qwta:yθ n lel m’ or “Sturgeon House” functions as the main block of the quintet, containing a lounge, study area with a concealed kitchenette, games room and more. Double height volumes and ample glazing are used to channel light deep into subterranean spaces like the fitness centre while emphasizing clarity for trepidatious students acclimatizing to post-pandemic realities of education. “We know anecdotally, post-COVID, students are a bit more reticent about connecting,” notes Adam James, principal at Ryder Architecture. “I think the design of the spaces helps that.” At its heart is the two-storey bleacher stair, where exposed concrete and elegant fixtures are paired with natural finishes such as warm wood set against the sleek black mullions to give the existing campus character a graphic edge, all while providing a casual environment to rest, connect or work. Additional study spaces, a cafe, sky

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lounge and other amenities are peppered through the other edifices, each topped by tailored individual studios and two luminous four-bedroom units per floor.

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Though an expedited timeline and rolling occupancy required the designers to be agile, it also offered an opportunity to better reflect the needs of residents. In addition to providing more outdoor furnishings, seating and tables were later integrated into the bleachers as students noted “they liked to spend time there, but they didn’t have something comfortable to write or sit on,” says Vivian Chin, design director at Hotson Architecture.

If the city’s housing crunch was the impetus for the project, it’s also responsible for one of the most unique features. With shortterm rentals like Airbnb also encroaching on affordable hotels, the private residences of “Orca House” (also known as q’ lɬal m c n lel m’) were designed to transition into visitor accommodations during the summer months when campus activity dwindles. Host-

ing conference attendees, camp goers and other guests, this move creates room for much-needed hospitality infrastructure without removing critical housing stock. Identical in scale to the typical units, these studio spaces — fitted with a private washroom and kitchenette — are delineated through upgraded finishes, integrated furnishings and other custom built-ins. Unlike standard floors where quad units are placed at either end, the elegant corridors terminate in a full-height window, framing vistas toward the grounds. Below, a lobby anchored by a grand tile-clad fireplace further elevates the dorm-hotel. Fittingly, flexibility was paramount: so much so that, even during construction amidst COVID-related closures, the main meeting room near the lobby easily doubled as childcare space for those on-site.

As a testament to its ongoing success as an active part of campus life, students have already settled into the interiors. “Driving past at night, when you can see through the ground-floor glazing,” says James, “all of the study rooms are packed.”

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Above and opposite One of the most research-intensive community-based mental health facilities for young people in Canada, The Summit provides three new outpatient programs for kids, teens and their families through the Owerko Family Walk-In Services, On-Site Intensive Community Treatment Services (ICTS) and the Ptarmigan Day

Hospital. All aspects of the building design are intended to provide a non-institutional appearance. Essential pieces like the main concierge desk and adjacent staircase were developed to ensure a cohesive design while incorporating the various functional and safety requirements.

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Safe Keeping

In Calgary, a new mental health facility offers respite and care for children and youth.

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hen SAHURI Partners + Architecture was tasked with designing a new mental health facility for children and adolescents in northwest Calgary, a priority was the development and execution of a thoughtful research phase. The $39-million, 34,000-sq.ft. facility — known as The Summit: Marian & Jim Sinneave Centre for Youth Resilience — would soon become the city’s first pediatric mental health hospital, targeted specifically to the treatment and care of some 8,000 children and teens annually.

The team at SAHURI, in partnership with Alberta Health Services and the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, first consulted local families, mental health professionals, and members of dedicated Youth and Family Advisory Committees, to learn more about pressing issues affecting youth today, and to develop design solutions that would support their wants and needs. Among their findings was a strong desire for a facility that would support hospital-level care without a typical institutional feel.

“Public participation was an integral part of the design and operations of The Summit,” says Tim Sahuri, founding principal and executive architect at SAHURI Partners + Architecture. “Feedback was vigorous. For example, participants told us in no uncertain terms that they didn’t like terrazzo floor tiles or ceiling tiles because it made the interiors look too institutional.”

A safe, comfortable and inviting space that promotes healing was achieved through wood-clad and patterned ceilings, colourful walls and furnishings, ample large windows for natural light, and geometric artificial lighting conceived by SMP Engineering.

Outside, the SAHURI team employed an origami-inspired façade, with building planes folded and triangulated to create a layering effect. Clad in a calming sky blue with wood soffits, gray accents, and a residential-style pitched roof, the exterior attempts to avoid an intimidating first impression for visitors. “The overall goal was to

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This spread The goal was to create a building that did not look like a hospital, with abundant visual interest, utilizing a more sophisticated colour palette favoured by the Youth Advisors. This complementary range of colours was used to make therapy spaces unique but part of a unified whole. Everything from the stepped massing, the pitched

roofs, the origami façade treatment, and the expanded colour palette were carefully considered. Interior design continued this approach with innovative flooring types, ceiling patterns, and bold graphic gestures appropriate for the target demographic.

create a building that did not look like a hospital, with abundant visual interest, and utilize a more sophisticated palette as favoured by the youth advisors,” says Sahuri.

need for hospitalization, and a mental health day hospital for those not requiring overnight admission. These programs were developed in part by SAHURI through additional research obtained when touring 15 mental health facilities across Australia, Canada and the United States.

Copious greenery, therapy gardens, and adjacent park spaces ensure a connection with nature, while a high-performance building envelope and passive systems add to the sustainability and efficiency of the LEED Silver Certified facility.

The need for a dedicated youth mental health facility in Calgary — and in other cities across the country — is clear. Research shows that approximately 1.2 million Canadian children and youth are affected by mental illness, and among the adult population, 70 per cent of issues reportedly develop during their juvenile years. What’s more, according to Mental Health Research Canada, only 16 per cent of youth under 20 accessed mental health services in the last year.

The Summit aims to tackle these stats. Integrated throughout the three-storey facility are programs including free walk-in therapy sessions, a treatment centre aimed at preventing or reducing the

“A takeaway from the tours is that the Summit is doing something unique in this space,” says Sahuri. “While there were similarities between the proposed program and the places that were toured, combining the walk-in, community-based services, as well as the day hospital, really hasn’t been done. This unparalleled depth of knowledge allowed us to develop a state-of-the-art facility.”

In addition to benefiting from $50 million in construction fundraising, the facility will see continued annual support from the Government of Alberta, as well as mental health research advancements through a partnership with the University of Calgary. For its users, “the Summit will be a place to find answers, healing and a fresh start,” says Sahuri, “all while improving mental health treatment for the next person who walks through the front door.”

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By Lucy Mazzucco

courtesy The Design Exchange

OVER & OUT

A New Era

The Design Exchange in Toronto undergoes yet another transformation.

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he Design Exchange (DX), located in the heart of Toronto’s Financial District, recently underwent a transformation to become “the first dedicated fully immersive event venue in Canada.”

Since its inception, DX’s mission was to promote the value of design.

It was also an internationally recognized non-profit education organization with a commitment to promoting awareness of design and the role it played in fostering economic growth and cultural vitality.

Built in 1937 as the original Toronto Stock Exchange, the DX was once known to many as the epicentre of the design industry and culture in Toronto, due largely to its operation as a design museum, which many in the design community mourned the loss of when the institution ceased operation in 2019. With a legacy spanning over two decades, the 40,000-sq.-ft. space served as a hub for the RBC Canadian Emerging Designer Competition, annual parties, expos and exhibitions, in particular a hugely ambitious festival in 2017 called Expo for Design, Innovation & Technology (EDIT), which was hosted in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme.

The newly transformed event space features various interior upgrades that aim to preserve the building’s historic elements while creating a modern atmosphere, most notably through the use of a sophisticated immersive projection mapping system (“Canada’s first,” according to the new operators), allowing clients to paint the walls with 45-foot tall by 230-foot customizable projected content.

“The contemporary renovation of the Design Exchange pays homage to its iconic architectural heritage while harmonizing it with the new fully immersive environment, state-of-the-art in-house AV from CCR, exquisite catering and service, and dedicated vendor partners to help bring any vision to life,” said Sebastien Centner, founder and creative director of Eatertainment Events. “The immersive boom is revolutionizing live experiences, and with innovations like the MSG Sphere leading the way, we are going to see the event landscape change dramatically as venues like The Design Exchange offer inhouse and turn-key projection mapping at a fraction of what it used to cost to create these types of environments.”

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