LAB-ÉCOLE | Construction d'une nouvelle école primaire à Saguenay, sur le terrain de l'actuelle école Marguerite-d'Youville / Construction of a New Elementary School in Saguenay, on the Site of the Current Marguerite-d'Youville School
2019
Saguenay, Quebec, Canada- Educational buildings
- Building
- School
This project consists of the design of a new 3440 sq. m. building on the site of the existing Marguerite-D'Youville School. This new school will accommodate students from preschool to Grade 6 and will have 15 classrooms, including 3 preschool and 12 elementary school classes, 1 single gymnasium, as well as gathering spaces for collaboration and eating.
The site of the new school is located in Saint-Joachim Park on Boily Street in the Saint-Joachim neighbourhood near downtown Chicoutimi in Saguenay.
The construction of the Marguerite-D'Youville school will create an inclusive living environment to integrate more students, stimulating sports spaces, and more facilities shared with the community.
Teams will be challenged to design a school that will create a soothing and warm atmosphere where children will learn to love school and feel good about it. The new Lab-École school will help solidify several existing partnerships with the community. The school must become a place where all students can invest themselves in a different way and develop their different passions. More specifically, the teams will have to meet the following objectives:
- A school that is as welcoming as a home;
- A caring school that is responsive to the needs of students and staff, creating a strong sense of belonging to the surrounding environment;
- A school open to the community;
- A school that is inclusive of the special needs clientele using a Nurture approach;
- A school that is dynamic and active so that it can be active at all times, close to nature;
- A school whose indoor and outdoor spaces invite movement in learning;
- A school that favours free and inhabited movement;
- A school that favours a location that facilitates access to the schoolyard;
- A school that favours the model of a learning community grouped by cycle and comprising respective collaborative spaces, recreating small schools that reflect the image of home within the large school.
(From competition program)
(Unofficial automated translation)
The site of the new school is located in Saint-Joachim Park on Boily Street in the Saint-Joachim neighbourhood near downtown Chicoutimi in Saguenay.
The construction of the Marguerite-D'Youville school will create an inclusive living environment to integrate more students, stimulating sports spaces, and more facilities shared with the community.
Teams will be challenged to design a school that will create a soothing and warm atmosphere where children will learn to love school and feel good about it. The new Lab-École school will help solidify several existing partnerships with the community. The school must become a place where all students can invest themselves in a different way and develop their different passions. More specifically, the teams will have to meet the following objectives:
- A school that is as welcoming as a home;
- A caring school that is responsive to the needs of students and staff, creating a strong sense of belonging to the surrounding environment;
- A school open to the community;
- A school that is inclusive of the special needs clientele using a Nurture approach;
- A school that is dynamic and active so that it can be active at all times, close to nature;
- A school whose indoor and outdoor spaces invite movement in learning;
- A school that favours free and inhabited movement;
- A school that favours a location that facilitates access to the schoolyard;
- A school that favours the model of a learning community grouped by cycle and comprising respective collaborative spaces, recreating small schools that reflect the image of home within the large school.
(From competition program)
(Unofficial automated translation)