Client

City of Brampton

Building Size

Building : 27,871 sq.m / 300,000 sq.ft

Phase 1: 6,503 sq.m / 70,000 sq.ft

Phase 2: 21,368 sq.m / 230,000 sq.ft

Location

Brampton, ON

Located on a 143-acre rural site, the new Gore Meadows Community & Sports Centre is a unique multi-programmed facility containing over 300,000 s.f. for the residents of a rapidly growing multi-cultural district in Brampton.

Inspired by the agricultural and natural landscape, both the site and building design reflects a modern attitude to design, yet is mindful of its past heritage. Reminiscent of the adjacent farmers’ fields, the site design is an abstract expression of linearly planted bands of selected vegetation that include perennial flower beds, framed by grids of bushes and treed orchards.

This landscape is also the foreground for the building’s main exterior feature, a multi-directional curved glass wall simulating the undulations of windblown-planted harvest fields. In its movement, this glass wall reflects a spectrum of light and images ranging from the distant sky to the immediate landscape that grounds the building.

Conceived of as the new “Centre of the Community”, the facility combines sport, fitness, and library services on one site and under one roof. The central organizing element of the building will be timber framed public galleria that stretches along the main façade and links the community centre, aquatics centre and public library.

The facility design also includes a future indoor soccer centre, with a gently arching wood diaphragm structure above the FIFA soccer pitch. Sustainable design strategies and systems have been utilized to ensure the facility will achieve LEED Gold certification.