REGENT COLLEGE EXPANSION
ZONING AMENDMENT
LOCATION
Vancouver, BC
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CLIENT/OWNER
Regent College
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ARCHITECT
Grout McTavish Architecture
Brad McTavish (Principal), Toshi Suzuki
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YEAR DESIGNED
2014
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SIZE
151,531 s.f
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Grout McTavish was engaged by Regent College to seek planning approval for a 74,000sf expansion to their facility in the University Endowment lands, in order to meet the need for student housing and further enhance their academic and continuing studies program.
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The Regent College expansion will create a mixed used development. The design is comprised of a two-storey plinth with flanking one-storey residential wings designed around a central courtyard, which is ringed with academic, and retail uses. The footprint of the College expansion was developed around the precedent of a classical academic quadrangle and reconfigured to allow for lower level retail uses to be incorporated in the design while providing terraces and direct pedestrian-friendly access to the rental housing on the upper floors. The resulting design proposal further the promotion a human scale and pedestrian-friendly atmosphere through the use of its open courtyard, active streetscapes along Wesbrook and Western Parkway with narrow retail frontages, rain protection, and generous tree planting.
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