Okanagan College Daycare

Penticton, BC

Passive House certified, this building incorporates four childcare areas, with associated washrooms, kitchen, storage, and office space. The design of the Daycare was approached with an acute awareness of the project’s budgetary restraints and Passive House requirements. In order to commit to an expedited construction schedule, the team also designed an easily constructed and erected structural system. This all-wood solution uses a combination of industry-standard prefabricated structural elements (2x trusses) in combination with thermally broken conventional light wood frame walls.

Donations in kind of labour and structural components (CLT) from Okanagan College and the surrounding community were also integrated into the structure and construction process. The result is a comfortable and well conditioned space extremely well suited to allow (very) young minds to flourish.

Awards
2018 Canadian Green Building Award, Institutional (Small) Award
2018 Tommie Awards, Best Environmental Initiative in Construction, Silver Finalist

Photos by Jon Adrien.

ArchitectLandform Architecture StatusCompleted (2017)