Sutton, Quebec
Cultural
Completed

École du Zénith, completed in the winter of 2024, emerged as one of the winning projects from a series of architectural competitions launched by the Lab-École in August 2019. Rather than a linear narrative, the project is presented through three scales, each offering a different perspective on the architecture:

The Landscape – How the architecture engages with the site.
The building introduces a new skyline, mirroring the flat topography of the surroundings. The arrangement of the pavilions into a coherent whole allows for dual interpretations: the distinct expression of each cycle within its own pavilion and the unified identity of the entire school community

Volumes and Spaces – Architecture at the scale of a child in motion.
The school is conceived as a universe that sustains the long years of childhood spent within its walls. It must be spatially complex, offering a wealth of new spaces to explore.

The Fragment – Architecture in relation to the human body.
This scale reveals the sensory essence of the project through its assemblies, construction details and material transitions.

The prism of scale allows for the observation of all the project’s temporalities — research, exploration, design, technical resolution, construction, and occupation — while revealing the connections between conceptual intentions, their realization, and the school as built and inhabited by the children.