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Sharing space with bright galvanized steel and glass is a matte brown long-house box clad in punctuated terracotta panels, meant to evoke Anishinaabe birchbark memory chests. The Ts'kw'aylaxw, like many First Nations and others, believe a natural life should exist hand-in-hand with environ...

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Published in:Canadian Interiors 2020-05, Vol.57 (3), p.23-29
Main Author: Smith, Leslie C
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Sharing space with bright galvanized steel and glass is a matte brown long-house box clad in punctuated terracotta panels, meant to evoke Anishinaabe birchbark memory chests. The Ts'kw'aylaxw, like many First Nations and others, believe a natural life should exist hand-in-hand with environmental sensitivity. Because Canada's First Nations are really an amalgamation of distinct cultures with their own priorities and histories, Rafiei points out that "every project is a new adventure for us due to the client's programmatic and cultural requirements." Indigenous plant species dot the temperature-regulating green roof; cedar log columns and beams support the roof's wavy form, whose serpentine shape repeats in the interior's ceiling, most spectacularly in the central, multi-purpose Gathering Space that doubles as a community centre and council chamber for local government.
ISSN:0008-3887
1923-3329