Design nods to heritage, facilitating healing through community at a Canadian women’s shelter

The 18-room complex has a loose, flowing ground floor that contradicts rectilinear institutional conventions. - Doublespace

Resources precious to Canada’s Indigenous communities – namely, water – are easily read inspiration throughout the spatial concept. - Doublespace

Its walls are soft and curved, suggesting a meandering stream, leading residents naturally through intake, counselling and community spaces. - Doublespace

1 / 8

Location

Canada

Client

Anduhyaun Inc.

Design

LGA Architectural Partners

Structural

Blackwell Engineering

Landscape Architecture

GSP Group

Floor Area

1,102 sq-m

LGA Architectural Partners' design for Anduhyaun Emergency Shelter rethinks institutional shelter typologies through Indigenous-led spatial concepts.

FRAME's take

‘As the culture a

Create a free account to read the full article

Get 2 premium articles for free each month

Already have an account? Log in

Is scaffolding the new exhibition space?

This week, the Berlin-est of Berlin hotels, a powerhouse pair at an Osaka museum and more

The latticed façade of a rural weaving museum echoes the region’s looming past

Functional spaces? Yes. Cold ones? No. 4 care facilities are anything but clinical

How museums are adapting to stay relevant

Design nods to heritage, facilitating healing through community at a Canadian women’s shelter

In Uruguay, blurring indoors and out makes the school the park and the park the school

This inside-out V&A could be the museum of the future

A Dartmouth College music studio enables users to ‘play’ the architecture like an instrument

TeamLab's undulating museum dissolves spatial logic to awaken intuitive experience

Design nods to heritage, facilitating healing through community at a Canadian women’s shelter

Create a free account to read the full article

Related Articles

Is scaffolding the new exhibition space?

This week, the Berlin-est of Berlin hotels, a powerhouse pair at an Osaka museum and more

The latticed façade of a rural weaving museum echoes the region’s looming past

Functional spaces? Yes. Cold ones? No. 4 care facilities are anything but clinical

How museums are adapting to stay relevant

Design nods to heritage, facilitating healing through community at a Canadian women’s shelter

In Uruguay, blurring indoors and out makes the school the park and the park the school

This inside-out V&A could be the museum of the future

A Dartmouth College music studio enables users to ‘play’ the architecture like an instrument

TeamLab's undulating museum dissolves spatial logic to awaken intuitive experience

INFO

COMPANY

SERVICE

Design nods to heritage, facilitating healing through community at a Canadian women’s shelter

Create a free account to read the full article

Related Articles

Is scaffolding the new exhibition space?

This week, the Berlin-est of Berlin hotels, a powerhouse pair at an Osaka museum and more

The latticed façade of a rural weaving museum echoes the region’s looming past

Functional spaces? Yes. Cold ones? No. 4 care facilities are anything but clinical

How museums are adapting to stay relevant

Design nods to heritage, facilitating healing through community at a Canadian women’s shelter

In Uruguay, blurring indoors and out makes the school the park and the park the school

This inside-out V&A could be the museum of the future

A Dartmouth College music studio enables users to ‘play’ the architecture like an instrument

TeamLab's undulating museum dissolves spatial logic to awaken intuitive experience

INFO

COMPANY

SERVICE

subscribe to our newsletters