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Gorge Park Pavilion
Gorge Park Pavilion
Esquimalt, Canada
Special Mention, 2024 A+Awards, Built - Sustainable Cultural Building
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Gorge Park Pavilion
Esquimalt, Canada
Special Mention, 2024 A+Awards, Built - Sustainable Cultural Building
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2022
SIZE
10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft
BUDGET
$5M - 10M
Forming a gateway to Victoria’s Esquimalt Gorge Park, Gorge Park Pavilion provides a range of new multipurpose spaces for the Greater Victoria community. Located on the site of Esquimalt’s former Japanese Teahouse, adjacent to the historic Japanese garden, the Pavilion combines heavy timber roof elements with a granite façade to present a modern take on the rich tradition of park pavilions. Merging traditional BC coastal construction with Japanese-garden-inspired space planning and a place-specific sensibility toward its landscape, the building offers an innovative and future-facing design that seeks to honour the sites history while weaving together the tapestry of Canada’s multicultural heritage.
The pavilion provides a unique venue for community programming, meetings, and events, offering 6,800 ft2 of programmable space and 4,700 ft2 of additional service spaces. Built to Passive House energy standards (not certified), the striking south-facing roof is clad with 252 new high-efficiency solar panels, capable of generating enough electricity to meet the year-round power needs of the building and its EV plug-in stations. Other green features include extra thick insulation, specially designed thermal breaks at exterior balconies, and triple-glazed vinyl windows. Further energy-saving features include high-efficiency electric heat pumps and an inventive landscape design that will provide critical carbon absorption and adiabatic cooling over the building's lifecycle.
The site includes a set of raingardens, ornamental landscaping, waterfalls, and reflective ponds that make the Pavilion a green oasis in the middle of the city. The building was also designed with a seismic importance factor of1.5, enabling it to serve as a post-disaster shelter to bolster community resiliency. Most important, the pavilion aims to honour the site’s cultural history, 80 years after the Internment Period. Through a changing gallery of artworks and interpretive displays, the pavilion celebrates the histories of early Japanese immigrants while educating visitors and encouraging reconciliation.
The pavilion provides a unique venue for community programming, meetings, and events, offering 6,800 ft2 of programmable space and 4,700 ft2 of additional service spaces. Built to Passive House energy standards (not certified), the striking south-facing roof is clad with 252 new high-efficiency solar panels, capable of generating enough electricity to meet the year-round power needs of the building and its EV plug-in stations. Other green features include extra thick insulation, specially designed thermal breaks at exterior balconies, and triple-glazed vinyl windows. Further energy-saving features include high-efficiency electric heat pumps and an inventive landscape design that will provide critical carbon absorption and adiabatic cooling over the building's lifecycle.
The site includes a set of raingardens, ornamental landscaping, waterfalls, and reflective ponds that make the Pavilion a green oasis in the middle of the city. The building was also designed with a seismic importance factor of1.5, enabling it to serve as a post-disaster shelter to bolster community resiliency. Most important, the pavilion aims to honour the site’s cultural history, 80 years after the Internment Period. Through a changing gallery of artworks and interpretive displays, the pavilion celebrates the histories of early Japanese immigrants while educating visitors and encouraging reconciliation.
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