A Design to Respond to Climate Change: Manitoba Hydro Place introduces a new paradigm to lead the AEC industry to a carbon-neutral future using a formal Integrated Design Process. Every element melds performance and aesthetics: solar chimney, wintergardens, waterfalls, thermal mass, vertical neighbourhoods, double façade, geothermal, public park, public galleria. Every part of the whole was conceived and designed in the service of providing a healthy supportive workplace for Hydro’s greatest asset – its people. The outcome is a reduction in absenteeism (1.5 days per employee) and massive energy savings.
The Active Living Centre at the University of Manitoba was recently named a 2016 NIRSA Outstanding Sports Facility Award recipient. The awards, open internationally, recognize the innovative design of new, renovated, or expanded collegiate recreational facilities.
MUKWONAGO, WI…For more than two decades, Club Regent has brought the essence of Las Vegas to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Featuring Banker Wire woven wire mesh, the new state-of-the-art Club Regent Event Centre continues in that tradition with its ability to seemingly magically transform to suit almost any entertainment or conference event.
The goal of this international competition organized by the University of Manitoba with the support of “Manitoba Hydro” the provincial Crown-corporation company specialized in hydro-electric energy, was to suggest a new vision of the Campus through a masterplan that integrates the challenges of growth, comfort and environmental quality and that will allow the positioning of the Campus as an exemplary space in terms of innovation, environmental values, variety and worldwide integration.
This veritable urban challenge includes the development of 4.200 housing units as well as 21.000m2 dedicated to businesses and facilities in the «Southwood Precinct»extension along with a general reflection devoted to the flows and complementary elements to be integrated within the Campus core« Fort Garry Campus » as well as its peripheral areas, including the technological Park and the sports complex.
The towering elm trees and gentle meadows of Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park have for generations formed an inspiring backdrop to the city’s collective memory. The Qualico Family Centre connects to the temporality of this landscape, evolving, growing and decaying in harmony with the natural rhythms of its surroundings.
Winnipeg is a city of 600,000 residents located on the Canadian prairie. It is the coldest city of its size outside of Siberia. Winter can last six months. So learning to celebrate winter – learning to take advantage of the opportunities that winter provides – makes sense.
Architectural team: Tyler Brown, Matthew Bunza, James Eidse, John Patkau, Patricia Patkau, Thomas Schroeder, Luke Stern, Peter Suter
Structural Advisor: AnnaLisa Meyboom
Photographer: James Dow
Software used: NONE. “While it may not look it, this was decidely an ‘analog’ project in that the design was developed primarily using physical models and a full-scale mock-up in our shop. As such, the only representational media associated with this project comes in the form of working/shop drawings. It was never computer modelled/rendered because the forms were not preconceived, but the complex results of the simple process of making the physical artifacts.”
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