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Mayo Replacement School. It was selected as one of Team Canada’s three representative projects at the Green Building Challenge to be held at the World Sustainable Buildings Conference (Oslo, September 2002). So the building will be undergoing an operational analysis to determine how green it actually in preparation for Oslo. It will be conducted by NRCAN and other green building experts from across the country.
M ayo School is a kindergarten to grade 12 school, community hall, gymnasium and satellite campus of Yukon College located in Mayo,Yukon. This 3300 m 2 wood frame school serves a small isolated community of 500 residents and is located 550 km. north of Whitehorse. Home to the Naícho Nyak Dun First Nation, the Mayo Replacement School is designed to meet the needs of the entire community as well as students. As the largest structure in town it will serve many additional roles including a centre for community and first nation ceremonies, public library, disaster relief centre and recreation centre. It replaces an aging assemblage of trailers, which were installed over 25 years ago to provide temporary accommodations after a disastrous fire. Members of the community fought for over a decade for a new school and participated in the design at every stage.
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The new school replaces a dilapidated, ad hoc arrangement of trailers and was designed around the existing school which continued operat- ing during construction. Several factors dictated the location of the new school. Discontinuous permafrost favoured a location close to the existing school and by using open areas around the old school, adjacent woodlots were spared from clearing and grubbing operations. The centre of gravity in the new school, the assembly area, is aligned with the centreline of Mayo’s main street.
building form and orientation
The school’s orientation on the site maximizes the penetration of diffused daylight while minimizing solar gain. The building lies east west, perpendicular to southern daylight, facing the community. The view down Centre Street to the viewing platform of the Stewart River is aligned with the location of the main entry and assembly space. Elementary and secondary classrooms are in separate wings on either side of the main entrance which includes administration and the assembly area. The elementary wing is close to the playground to the west; the secondary school wing is near the gym and community campus with which there is a functional overlap. Classrooms and administration use the southern side of the building, gym and industrial arts shop on the north, their bulk moderated by lower massing in the front.
above: outside the assembly area under a great porch roof. right: inside the assembly area, under construction.
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