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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