Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
When designing the Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub in Iqaluit, Toronto’s Lateral Office and Winnipeg’s Verne Reimer Architecture thought carefully about local conditions. The centre is built on piles to preserve permafrost. It has scooped cutouts to deflect wind. And it’s topped with a circular clerestory window, which maximizes sunlight during the dark winter months. Functionality hardly comes at the expense of aesthetics. The corrugated metal cladding is arranged in a syncopated pattern, with pops of bright colour — a common flourish in the region. The architects also brought the tundra into the design program with the first ever Arctic green roof.
Team: Mason White (Lateral Office Inc.) and Jeff Penner (Verne Reimer Architecture Inc) with Lola Sheppard, Kearon Roy Taylor (Lateral Office Inc); Daryl Holloway, Stephen Meijer, Youchen Wang (Verne Reimer Architecture Inc); WSP Canada Inc; NCC Development and Michael Leblanc.
The Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub in Iqaluit represents a careful – yet colourful – take on Northern architecture.
