Length: 1 CEU
Topic: Sustainability / Climate
Delivery Mode: Online On-Demand
What's Included: Video, Quiz, & Certificate
Registration Fee: Members $50 | Intern $35 | Student $25 | Non-Member $75
This webinar is part of the RAIC 2025 Conference on Architecture!
Community recreation facilities – especially those with aquatics programming – are some of the municipal building portfolio’s costliest assets: to build, to operate, and from a greenhouse gas emissions standpoint.
Yet, the social value of these buildings is critical. They help combat loneliness, promote health and wellness, foster collective pride, provide meaningful access and inclusion, and act as safe havens in the face of natural disasters.
Join Paul Fast and Alexandra Kenyon of hcma architecture + design, as they challenge the industry to think differently. Sharing new imperatives for community recreation building design, they’ll highlight the importance of holistic and generational thinking to meet society’s complex and rapidly evolving needs.
They’ll share lessons from some of BC’s most innovative community recreation projects, including the all-electric təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre – the first completed aquatic centre certified under Canada Green Building Council’s Zero Carbon Building-Design Standard.
Explain how new design approaches for community recreation centres can contribute to achieving environmental and social impact goals.
Describe the role community recreation centres play as one of the key influencers in a capital building portfolio and what this means for a municipality's climate response.
Discuss the impacts of climate goals and evolving building codes on aquatic centre design.
Identify the role of community recreation centres in helping communities become more resilient.
Subject Matter Experts:
Paul Fast
Architect AIBC, AAA, OAA, MRAIC
Principal, hcma architecture + design
As a Principal at hcma architecture + design, Paul is interested in bridging the gap between communities and the built environment. He believes transformative change can happen at any scale, and has led projects ranging from a children’s playhouse to a complex, $160M community recreation centre over the past 15 years. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and events – including TEDxWestVancouver, Recreation Foundation of BC, BCRPA and ARPA, AIBC Conference, and Buildex Vancouver – addressing themes of community, recreation, placemaking, and social and environmental performance. Paul holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia.
Ali Kenyon
Architect AIBC, M.Arch, B.Des
Associate Principal, hcma architecture + design
Alexandra (Ali) Kenyon is an architect, urbanist, and mother. With Dutch and Italian ancestry, and raised in the Treaty Four lands of Regina, Ali is interested in the relationship between cities, buildings, and landscapes, their cultural context, and the systems that connect them. Through her work, she is committed to providing design solutions that catalyze community change, now and into the future. As Associate Principal at hcma, Ali leads teams in the pursuit of maximizing positive impact in communities, through the design of public spaces, aquatic and recreation centres, libraries, outdoor pools, and development plans. Her interdisciplinary background, first in industrial design then architecture, influences the success she has had across project scales – Alley Oop and Ackery’s Alley are two of her non-traditional projects that reshape the urban landscape, while the newly opened təməsew̓txʷ Aquatic and Community Centre brings a new top-of-class civic amenity to a challenging site. Other projects in her portfolio include Wascana Pool in Regina, Minoru Centre for Active Living in Richmond, and Vancouver Public Library’s Brand Guidelines for Interior Spaces.
This webinar is in English. Closed captions have been provided in both English and French.
Pricing
Member: $50 / Non-Member: $75
Intern Member: $35 / Intern Non-Member: $75
Student: $25 (must be an RAIC student associate member)