This comprehensive new school for the 600 kindergarten to grade 12 French speaking students of the Victoria Region replaces an old and dysfunctional facility, adding community spaces including a pre-school and daycare facilities, and a well-equipped black box theatre. The new facility offers contemporary learning environments, enhanced by the use of environmentally-friendly materials, an efficient mechanical system and generous use of daylight.

The school building as well as the site development was undertaken based on sustainability principles with a projected energy use 37% below the Model National Energy Code of Canada. The project attained a LEED Silver designation in spite of a constrained construction budget.

The project was completed under the predecessor firm,
Marceau Evans Johnson Architects


Esquimalt, British Columbia

Owner: Conseil scolaire francophone
de la Colombie Britannique (School District No. 93)

Size: 7,000 square metres
Construction completed January 2007
Contract value: $16 Million


photos by Ivan Hunter Photography