Northern Ontario School of Architecture / École d'architecture du Nord de l'Ontario
2009
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada- Educational buildings
- Building
- University
What could a School of Architecture be? Ideas for a new school in Northern Ontario.
Led by the NOSOA Steering Committee in partnership with the City of Greater Sudbury, this competition challenges entrants to consider:
How can a new school of architecture collaborate, and contribute to a culturally diverse community while providing an innovative and globally competitive education?
This competition will generate ideas which push the envelope, questioning the roles of schools of architecture. What are the physical characteristics? What are the more abstract, theoretical ones? How can this new school satisfy the unique nature of Northern Ontario? These are some example questions that can be considered, though they are not required.
There are two distinct aspects proposed for NOSOA that should be carefully considered. First, it will be providing a dual-stream education - students can study in either English or in French. The second is that NOSOA will deeply engage with, and learn from the First Nation communities which comprise a large portion of Northern Ontario. Beyond those two stipulations, this competition has purposefully ignored setting strict design guidelines in order to allow entrants the complete freedom to generate their own, unique ideas. It is up to each team to interpret their response.
(From competition documentation)
Led by the NOSOA Steering Committee in partnership with the City of Greater Sudbury, this competition challenges entrants to consider:
How can a new school of architecture collaborate, and contribute to a culturally diverse community while providing an innovative and globally competitive education?
This competition will generate ideas which push the envelope, questioning the roles of schools of architecture. What are the physical characteristics? What are the more abstract, theoretical ones? How can this new school satisfy the unique nature of Northern Ontario? These are some example questions that can be considered, though they are not required.
There are two distinct aspects proposed for NOSOA that should be carefully considered. First, it will be providing a dual-stream education - students can study in either English or in French. The second is that NOSOA will deeply engage with, and learn from the First Nation communities which comprise a large portion of Northern Ontario. Beyond those two stipulations, this competition has purposefully ignored setting strict design guidelines in order to allow entrants the complete freedom to generate their own, unique ideas. It is up to each team to interpret their response.
(From competition documentation)