Laboratoire de santé animale à Québec

Country Canada
City Québec
Customer Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec
Surface area 3,941 m²
Year 2010
Certification LEED NC

Located in the heart of Parc technologique du Québec métropolitain, the laboratory’s siting on this densely wooded lot complies with the Park’s regulations, which promote the preservation of the natural environment and the integration of built structures into their surroundings.

This laboratory’s mission is to support the veterinarian’s diagnostic and to carry through specialized analysis within an epidemiological research and surveillance framework. The project integrates two main components: the pathology sector, a unit bringing together activities related to necropsy and support laboratories, and the veterinarian diagnostic CL-2 laboratories sector, accompanied by their administrative support.

The functional program’s components are spread out over a two floor ensemble made up of two rectangular volumes, perpendicular, connected by a main circulation axis.

The subtlety of the execution, the luminosity and the opening onto the immediate environment identify the main entrance’s volume. The first floor houses a series of offices and a conference room accessible from a fully glazed atrium-lobby running through. Below, on the ground floor, the diagnostic laboratories are installed.

Interior of the Laboratoire de santé animale à Québec

The pathology, the mechanical rooms, electrical rooms and the common support services are housed in the adjoining volume, located along the northern limit of the site, near the scientific Complex with which it is linked by an underground technical strip. The compactness of this pathology-technical volume as well as its sober and industrial expression, assert the functions assigned to it.

The interrelations of the program’s main sectors clearly established, have allowed to meet the constraints of each and of their adjacencies, to insure the efficiency of movement throughout the whole and to maximise the use of fresh air and of natural light in the appropriate sector.