From left: Dakoda Cluett, Vice-President (Downtown Oshawa campus location), Ontario Tech Pupil Union; Joshua Sankarlal, President, Ontario Tech Pupil Union; Brad MacIsaac, Vice-President, Administration, Ontario Tech College; Dan Carter, Mayor of Oshawa; Jill Thompson, Indigenous Cultural Advisor, Indigenous Schooling and Cultural Companies, Ontario Tech College; Ken Shiny, Director, Workplace of Campus Infrastructure and Sustainability, Ontario Tech College.
A yr after opening its doorways, Ontario Tech College’s iconic new constructing is the winner of a Metropolis of Oshawa City Design Award.
Formally named throughout a sacred Indigenous ceremony on June 29, 2021, the five-storey, 10,200 sq. metre (110,000 sq. foot) Shawenjigewining Corridor at Ontario Tech’s north Oshawa campus location serves as a daring new gateway to the college, adjoining to the Power Analysis Centre and Campus Library.
Envisioned as a constructing to encourage interdisciplinarity, collaboration, experiential educating and studying, and help a way of discovery, Shawenjigewining Corridor supplies enhanced educational, administrative and pupil help areas, a spread of examine and lounge areas, and area for student-run societies and golf equipment.
The Metropolis of Oshawa’s awards program celebrates tasks that replicate excellence in structure and concrete design and improve the picture of town, its livability and high quality of life. The awards additionally acknowledge the contributions of architects, builders and designers. This system is supported by the Ontario Affiliation of Architects, the Ontario Skilled Planners Institute and the Ontario Affiliation of Panorama Architects.
Architectural options
Shawenjigewining Corridor’s composition of concrete, steel, wooden and stone aligns with the prevailing cloth of the college’s north Oshawa campus location. Formed concrete panels generate an inside change between gentle and shadow in the course of the day. The ground plan’s environment friendly area use was developed with flexibility for future adaptability by Structure Counsel and Montgomery Sisam Architects (designers) and Jap Development (design-builder).
The pedestrian-friendly and enormous, double-height opening accentuates the primary two ranges. A characteristic staircase connects actions to the lower-level, permitting daylight to penetrate downwards. The acoustically quieter areas on the upper ranges home college places of work, analysis labs, studying areas, and areas for tranquil examine.
Operations
Shawenjigewining Corridor is house to Ontario Tech’s College of Well being Sciences, Workplace of Pupil Life, Steady Studying and the Ontario Tech Pupil Union. It consists of Mukwa’s Den, an Indigenous area that gives a house away from house for Indigenous college students, and area for all college students to attach and study from Indigenous tradition and assets. Along with school rooms and lecture rooms, the constructing additionally options maker areas and multi-faith prayer areas.
Naming background
The choice of an Indigenous title for Shawenjigewining Corridor displays the college’s dedication to work towards reconciliation and celebrates Indigenous cultures and methods of figuring out. The title itself is an Anishinaabe phrase that means ‘the place of kindness’. It was decided by Dorothy Taylor, a Mississauga Anishinaabe Elder from Curve Lake First Nation and Rick Bourque, Conventional Information Keeper at Ontario Tech.
Exterior picture of Shawenjigewining Corridor.
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Inside picture of Shawenjigewining Corridor.
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