![]() Varied spaces, indoors and out, become spontaneous classrooms for collaborative and individual learning. The ideas of ‘collaboration’ and ‘outdoors’ are the programmatic heart of the school, seen through the eyes of a child. The school is defined by its roof: an expansive timber shell that defines the new educational and community areas, both indoors and out. We sheltered the school from the wind off the river, tight against the forest, along its threshold with the field. ![]() From the high point on the site, you can see ‘the fleuve’ to the north and the mountains of the Bic to the west. The forest is precolonial, a third of the way down the sloping farmland between Chemin du Sommet and the St Lawrence River. The school was imagined here as an ecotone between forest and field, a magnified, evolving, and poetic condenser of the experience of these two peri-urban environments. On Rimouski’s developing fringe, this site proposed a radical merging of building with landscape. The program wanted innovative learning spaces for the children – a laboratory, a break from classroom-bound learning, and a place of collective inter-generational learning for the community. ![]() To L’OEUF & LMA, that meant rethinking both the student’s experience of learning, and a school’s wider social mission as cornerstone of community cohesion and development. The architects were asked to imagine the school of tomorrow. Other categories in architecture / Concept & Unbuilt ![]()
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