Cultural, Library, Education, Collaboration, Community Hub, Sustainability

Langara College Library and Classroom Building

The new Langara College Library and Classroom Building — a growing college looking for a building concept that would promote its image as one of the move progressive emerging colleges in British Columbia — is a LEED Gold building whose shape is informed by its environmental systems which include cooling wind towers and ground-source heating.

LEED GOLD

The roof undulates to capture and focus air streams towards the towers. The concept of fluid movement across the roof was pulled into the building and across the landscape as a series of pedestrian routes and experiences. This approach to design is the conceptual intersection between environment and experience. The building also exploits a deliberate relationship between the indoors and outdoors, including a series of interior hanging gardens within the wind towers that provide natural light to the centre of the building. The project is an award-winning hub for the intellectual and social life of students at Langara.

Completed during Luc Bouliane's tenure as Project Architect with Teeple Architects in Toronto.