BBBL SANS FRONTIERE SB 006

Sans-Frontières Elementary School

  • Country Canada
  • City Saint-Jérôme
  • Customer CSS de la Rivière-du-Nord
  • Surface area 5,065 m²
  • Year 2014

Sans-Frontières Elementary School is located in a developing neighbourhood in Saint-Jérôme, close to Des Hauts-Sommets High School.

The building was designed and built for a minimal environmental footprint. As it is sited on rugged, uneven terrain, the storeys deploy in step fashion, adhering to the topographic contours as seamlessly as possible.

The color scheme of the school, both inside and outside, is meant to be playful and adapted to the clientele. Across from the parking lot reserved for staff and users is a volume housing the public and community functions: administrative offices, gymnasium, multifunctional room and library. 

Another volume containing the classrooms flows fluidly, following the contours of the land. From these predominant volumes, whose entrances are easily distinguishable, are deployed three distinct blocks: to the west, the classroom block; to the east, the administrative and daycare block.

Farther south, the service block, comprising the gymnasium and multifunctional room giving onto the schoolyard. A formal circulation pathway features a large skylight and links the different parts of the program.

Architecture

Provencher_Roy / Bergeron Thouin Architectes

Electromechanical

Stantec

Contractor

Anjalec Construction

Photography

Stéphane Brügger