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Publication:23 January 2026
| Location | Canada|Ontario|Sudbury |
| Typologies | Educational architecture|Research centers and laboratories |
Living With Lakes Centre à Sudbury_LU_#17The Vale Living with Lakes Centre consists of two buildings, both located on the shore of Ramsey Lake on the Laurentian University campus. The Watershed Building is a one-storey building used for sample collection and cleaning, equipment storage and for launching and receiving field crews. This case study focuses on the main building, the two-storey Living with Lakes Centre. The design of the Living with Lakes building responds to the topography and shoreline of the site. It houses offi ces and laboratories and has room for approximately 80 faculty members, staff and students in 2,600 m2 (28,000 ft.2). Mechanical and custodial spaces are located on the parking lot side of the building, and the laboratory area and offices face the lake.
Centre « Vale Living with Lakes » à Sudbury_LU_#4The Vale Living with Lakes Centre is a successful example of a symbiotic integration of the built environment within Sudbury, Ontario’s natural environment. The Centre functions as a working lab through an organization called the Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, which monitors and studies the health of the local watershed in response to the industrially-polluted landscape from the region’s complex mining heritage.
