AVE P MOB wins a pair of SAA Design Awards

We're excited to share the news that AVE P MOB has received a pair of SAA Design Awards (a Merit Award and a People's Choice Award).

The recently completed project is a new 41,000sf medical office building sited in Saskatoon, Canada's Riversdale District, and aims to give the community and its users a health-minded environment in every way possible. 

The building explores new programmatic territory as a result of the disassembling of the traditional medical office into a sharing-economy type program.  By removing the privacy-driven patient exam rooms from the doctor's offices and recollecting them into a state of the art shared / managed clinic, what were traditionally closed offices can effectively become open, light-filled, flexible workspaces that are tailored to user needs.  Moreover, digital management of the shared / managed clinic enables the group to drastically reduce the number of offices that previously would sit empty, while patients were not visiting or while doctors were elsewhere.  The four-story building has a public ground floor with leasable retail space, lobby, and a public cafe. The upper two floors house doctor's offices and a small amount of exam rooms, while the second floor holds the heart of the building -- a light-filled atrium space that acts as a lifted living room, allowing easy public access while maintaining some separation from the street, and offering direct access to the shared clinic spaces, which all occupy that floor.  

The project was a collaboration between Oxbow Architecture and Metaamo.

For more info on this project: http://www.metaamo.com/MOB/

Project Team: Jim Siemens, Matthew Bunza, Sarah Robertson, Sam Lock, Mason Loy, Anna Ringstrom (Landscape), Tara Reichart (Structural), Aandra Currie Shearer (Interiors).  Photo credits: Candice Epp.

P+M Construction Progress

We're excited to see one of our new house projects take shape up in Canada, as framing of the second level comes along quickly.

P+M is a new single-family residence for a young family, that is all about light, energy, and human interaction.

The superinsulated house is the product of a process that leveraged severe environmental constraints (minimal direct daylight and southern exposure in an extreme cold climate where temps reach -45 below), as means to maximize daylight, internal / external views, and spaces for family interaction -- all within a compact but dynamic form, on a narrow infill lot.

The project is one of a handful of collaborations between Metaamo + Oxbow.