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Fleming College A-Wing, Sutherland Campus

Discipline : Architecture

Categories : Other categories in architecture / Building Facade : Silver Certification

The Sutherland Campus was established in 1973 within a park-like setting. Almost 50 years later, the college commissioned our firm to revitalize the 76,000 sf A-Wing. The challenge was to transform the dark and inefficient building to meet 21st century standards for learning and sustainability. The process began by shedding the building’s brown aluminum envelope back to its steel frame, recladding it with alpolic aluminum panels – a lightweight material conventionally found on gas stations that instantly gives the building a luminous appearance. To break down the A-Wing’s solidity, the architects re-crafted its form by applying some panels with accordion folds, and adding perforated versions over the windows. Arranging similarly coloured panels at varying angles captures natural light in different conditions, giving the illusion of a deeper colour palette. Replacing some existing walls with glazing, the design invites lights in and treats passerbys to glimpses of the learning within.

Collaboration

Architect : Gow Hastings Architects

Interior Designer : Gow Hastings Architects

Engineering : EngineeringLink

Engineering : WSP

Engineering : EXP

Engineering : RDH Building Science

Other : Cini-Little International

Photographer : Tom Arban Photography

Fleming College A-Wing, Sutherland Campus

The project in images

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Fleming College A-Wing, Sutherland Campus

The project in images

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