004 / Lévis, Québec

École de laRive

2026ConceptPrimary school4,100 m²

A 320-pupil primary school organised as a low timber village along the riverbank. Twelve classrooms, twelve roofs, one shared spine.

Location: Lévis, Québec
Year: 2026
Status: Concept
Typology: Primary school
Area: 4,100 m²
Client: Centre de services scolaire des Navigateurs

Note 01

The competition asked for a school that would feel less like an institution and more like a neighbourhood. We answered by refusing to design a building.

Plate 02 — Classroom pavilion exterior

Note 02

Twelve classrooms sit as discrete pavilions along a single covered spine that runs parallel to the river. Each pavilion has its own pitched roof, its own front door, its own outdoor threshold. The spine is the school; the pavilions are houses.

Plate 03 — Glulam connection detail

Note 03

Construction is glulam and CLT throughout. The spine doubles as the gymnasium during winter and as covered play during shoulder seasons. There are no interior corridors.

Plate 04 — Covered play under the spine

Collaborators

— Pelletier de Fontenay — associate

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