DETAIL: THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL

摘要

The boxy, 1970s Old Main academic building at the center of Thompson Rivers University's (TRU's) campus in Kamloops, British Columbia, lacked the space and dignitas needed to house a law school. That changed when Toronto-based Diamond Schmitt Architects (DSA) capped the building with a two-story, 45,000-square-foot addition and undulating timber roof that rivals the mountainous setting. DSA principal Donald Schmitt, AIA, says that the 400-foot-long roof was inspired by the 1945 painting Mount Paul by A.Y. Jackson, a member of the Group of Seven landscape artists. "The visual connection between the building shape and Mount Paul and [the neighboring] Mount Peter was very important to creating that cultural connection with the aboriginal people," he says.