Riverview Recreation Complex
Riverview, New Brunswick
In Collaboration with Acre Architects
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Aquatic Centre, Field House, Indoor Track, Fitness Conditioning Space, Multipurpose Room, Lawn Seating, Outdoor Terrace, Multi-Use Trails
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Structural: Blackwell
Mechanical / Electrical: Smith + Andersen
Civil: Englobe
Landscape: MJMA + Brackish
The 60,000-sf Riverview Recreation Complex will be a new focus for social and healthy opportunities for the community of Riverview, New Brunswick. Situated in Mill Creek Nature Park, a 330-acre municipal greenspace popular for its picturesque landscapes and outdoor activities, the complex adds new amenities, with a design that prioritizes connections to its surrounding natural setting.
Among the facility’s many sustainability measures is a building section designed to take advantage of the sloping site for natural ventilation and energy efficiency: it allows for a larger volume in the field house, where the height is required, and a lower, smaller volume in the aquatics hall.
Reflecting Riverview’s motto, ‘A Town by Nature’, the complex is situated at the north end of the park and is designed as a gateway into this much-used community amenity.
The main entrance has a generous covered porch and social spaces designed by our Landscape Architects. It leads to the lobby-reception area that offers views into the fieldhouse and natatorium, as well as through these spaces to the park beyond.
At grade with the entrance are the pools and track, the latter circumnavigating the mezzanine of the level of the fieldhouse. Following the site’s natural topography, the fieldhouse is on a lower level and opens out directly into the park landscape.
