Our vision for the Northern Ontario School of Architecture (NOSOA) is a building which will ‘harmoniously integrate' academia and industry; building and open space; landscape and environment, art and technology; language and culture; citizens and city. It will be a dynamic, efficient, pragmatic and an eloquent response to the competition design brief, by creating a new ‘meeting place' for the all to interact, learn, discourse, exhibit, and enjoy.
The NOSOA's unique building forms and structural design concept is an abstraction of the Canadian Shield igneous rock forms and the Northern Ontario Boreal forest materials.
This is further defined through six (6) strategies:
1. Masterplan Strategy- NOSOA is located at the intersection of Elm, Durham and Cedar
Streets. The intention is for the building to permeate itself and interact with as much of the existing city fabric as possible. The building is comprised of 4 interlinked forms, which are defined by the existing city fabric. The separated building mass integrates with the surrounding buildings and disposition of Downtown Sudbury to create a ‘Campus' environment. It makes positive connections to the existing open spaces, buildings, landscape, transportation links and car parking.
2. Functional Zones Strategy- The NOSOA's buildings incorporate 3 primary zones of spaces.
Zone 1 contains the public and semi-public elements such as Auditoria, Library, Computer centre and Food and Beverage areas. Zone 2 is the ‘English/French studios' which contain semi-private and private areas such as the work areas, crit rooms and break-out areas.
Zone 3 is the research areas and offices which contain semi-public and private areas such as labs, conference rooms, administrative, faculty and hot desks for visiting faculty or professionals from the industry.
These zones are spread across the buildings. The idea is to physically mix uses and thus create personal interactions and impromptu ‘Meeting places and Exhibition spaces'.
NOSOA's building massing, atriums and orientation is such that it maximizes natural daylight, ventilation and views for all users.
3. Environmental Strategy - The design concept includes high and low-tech environmental solutions that are economically viable. These include: Photovoltaic and Solar cells, Geo-thermal heating & cooling, thermal massing, local material selection, ‘Green' construction practices and facilities management systems. These environmental strategies should enable our design to provide a ‘Zero' carbon footprint both in the construction and maintenance of ‘NOSOA' and achieve LEED's Accreditation.
4. Landscape & Art Strategy - The design includes significant areas of green-scape, hardscape courtyards, water features, roof-top and atrium winter gardens. These spaces can be enjoyed by students and staff as well as general citizens. The spaces are interspersed with First Nations Art in addition to local art and student displays. ‘NOSOA' would be a positive role model for inclusive community spaces in Sudbury.
5. Information Technology Strategy -NOSOA's Gigabit and Terabit networks, WAN, LAN and Wireless networks connect to Laurentian University's Data Centre and other Academic Computer centres around the world.
6. Building Technology Strategy- Traditional & Innovative local trades and building technology such as Engineered Wood Glulam ‘Diag' Structural Systems, High performance façade systems, Integration of Building Services, Advanced Materials and performance testing are integral components in our design. This would place NOSOA as a leader within the building technology and construction industry in Northern Ontario by allowing students, faculty, and industry to study, test and monitor different areas of the NOSOA building component.
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