Woolwich Memorial Centre
Elmira, Ontario
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Aquatic Centre, Twin-Pad Arena, Indoor Track, Fitness, Multipurpose Rooms, Older Adult Room, Track and Field
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2010 Association of Registered Interior Designers of Ontario (ARIDO): Award of Merit
2010 Canadian Interiors: Best of Canada Design Award
2010 Design Exchange (DXA): National Award
2010 Recreation Management: Innovative Architecture & Design Award
Woolwich Township is a thriving, rural southwestern Ontario ‘community of communities’. This facility consolidates the Township’s recreational amenities into one lively social hub, with community-driven programming. Efficient planning and connections between spaces are fundamental to the design. A circulation route that doubles as an indoor running track, with views to the outside, encircles the larger arena’s concourse-level.
Informed by budgetary constraints, the subdued interior palette is enlivened by colour strategically placed at program areas, including vivid blue and orange in the aquatics hall and arena.
Visual and graphic connections — such as the coloured ribbon that wraps the facility — tie programmatic elements together and provide spatial cues for circulation flow throughout the building.
