Project Summary
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Completion: 2018
Architect: Gibbs Gage Architects
Contractor: Graham Construction
Building Type: Institutional/Education
Customer: Calgary Board of Education
Product: ALPOLIC/fr
Size: 16,225 Sq.ft
Building Features
Located in the community of Seton, Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School is a LEED Silver development that provides a 21st Century learning environment with an open-concept, campus-like design. The new $45 million school can accommodate 1,800 students and is complete with two gyms, a library, a full commercial kitchen, and 46 classrooms including skilled-trades, technology, and art shops/labs.
”As a new facility, it will offer students immense opportunities in terms of technology and other options to develop a wider variety of interests and passions.” said CBE chair Trina Hurdman.
Upon completion, the project was the largest high school in Alberta.
Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School is an exciting addition to Seton and the southeast community in Calgary. The ten-acre site is located on the south-west corner of a larger joint-use site with a large recreation facility, an LRT future transit site, and a temporary storm pond.
Materials and Design
Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School comes with several unique features, including five frame-less glass walls consisting of laminated structural glass fins with privacy glazing, and a three-storey tiered-seating atrium with a drop-down screen and AV system. Facing into the central gathering space, students can settle into student collaboration pods with floor to ceiling switch glass that transitions between clear and frosted.
Dany Breton, CBE superintendent of facilities, added the new high school will also offer better learning spaces and a more open concept design that encourages collaboration.
“More concretely, you’re seeing less concrete… You’ll see less focus on classrooms and more on open spaces for collaboration.”
ALPOLIC/fr
ALPOLIC/fr was used as the cladding for Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School for its fire-retardant features and uncompromised aesthetic. ALPOLIC/fr panels are composed of two thin panels of aluminum laminated to a mineral-filled thermoplastic core. The aluminum cladding covering the 16,000+ sq.ft building is finished in a Lumiflon® FEVE resin supplied by Sherwin-Williams Coil Coating protecting the vibrant orange and earthy grey panels for years to come.
Why ALPOLIC/fr
Safety is important for a building that’s occupied by thousands of teachers and students and fire safety falls under that same umbrella. ALPOLIC/fr is one of the most advanced fire-retardant materials available and complies with many fire codes worldwide.
ALPOLIC/fr panels offer the same rigidity of heavy-gauge sheet metal in a lightweight material. That made it the perfect material for this project as it was easy to fabricate using ordinary wood and metalworking tools. With the panels exceptional flatness, vibration damping, durability and ease of maintenance the vision of Joane Cardinal-Schubert High School was brought to life.
Sources: https://majorprojects.alberta.ca/details/Joane-Cardinal-Schubert-High-School
https://www.gibbsgage.com/portfolio/seton-high-school
https://www.grahambuilds.com/project-profiles/buildings/joanne-cardinal-schubert-high-school