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Project • By Cimaise Architecture • Universities
Student Life Pavilion E1
Completed in 1959, the former student social centre at the heart of the Université de Sherbrooke campus was originally designed to house the university administration and a cafeteria. Over time, it gradually became home to student life services, the general management, health, psychology and counselling services, as well as financial aid and student associations, without any major rethinking of the spaces. By the late 2010s, the building had become outdated and poorly adapted to contemporary student needs.
Charles Lanteigne
Charles Lanteigne
The renovation of Pavilion E1 transforms this modest three-storey, 3,000-square-metre building into a clear centre of student life. The project reorganizes the interior around a new &l... More
Project • By Cimaise Architecture • Universities
Multipurpose Pavilion – Université de Sherbrooke
Located at the heart of Université de Sherbrooke’s main campus, the cafeteria of the Multipurpose Pavilion, originally built in 1993, is reimagined as a new social heart for the university. As one of Quebec’s leading French-language research institutions, with a campus closely tied to its natural setting, it now offers renewed spaces of daily life for students, places to meet, study, share a meal and spend time together from morning to evening.
Charles Lanteigne
Charles Lanteigne
The design is guided by the idea of an appropriable interior landscape, composed of a sequence of atmospheres rather than a single uniform hall. Students are invited to occupy the space in many ways: for a quick meal, collaborative wor... More
Project • By Robert A.M. Stern Architects • Universities
Schwarzman Center
Yale’s Schwarzman Center transforms Carrère & Hastings’ historic Commons and three floors of the adjoining Memorial Hall—components of their 1901 Bicentennial Buildings—into a social hub for the university’s undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Capitalizing on its location at the geographic center of campus, the Schwarzman Center is dedicated to both cultural programming and student life, outfitted with state-of-the-art technology that enables virtual engagement with the Yale community away from campus, as well as with the broader public.
© Francis Dzikowski/OTTO
© Francis Dzikowski/OTTO
© Francis Dzikowski/OTTO
The renovations retain and restore the buil... More