Strathcona Tweedsmuir School
A K-12 IB campus in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies — renovated and expanded around multi-age learning communities that reflect the school's outdoor ethos.
A renovation and addition shaped by the Albertan landscape.
A campus that reflects the Albertan landscape.
Guided by the motto Nil Nisi Optimum — ‘Nothing but our best’ — Strathcona Tweedsmuir School (STS) is a private K-12 IB school in the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains with a strong focus on outdoor education. Education Design International led the discovery and master planning process as the school looked to grow its enrollment and overcome the limits of underperforming existing facilities, setting a plan to renovate the existing spaces and add a new wing to house the elementary school and arts spaces.
The new wing is organized around three multi-age learning communities and two specialist communities — one for fine arts and one for visual arts — a structure that lets the school move toward a more interdisciplinary model of teaching and learning. With spectacular views in every direction, the design draws on the sloping roof lines, local colors, and materials of the foothills to give the building a strong local ethos. The project was the 2019 winner of the A4LE Renovation / Major Addition Planning and Design Award.
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