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Adams Lake Health + Wellness Centre (Sexqeltqin)

The completed centre, its long red elevation and slender red columns running beside the parking area below the hills.

The Adams Lake Indian Band (ALIB) had significant population growth in the last two decades and since the existing Health Centre was completed. ALIB planned to expand its Health program to meet the growing needs of community members by bringing in visiting professionals, therapists, and other specialists.

During consultations, it was clearly defined that the Health focus should not only be physical illness and remedy but also on spiritual and mental health. A holistic approach is needed to transform the aging existing facility from a clinic to a new 21st century wellness centre. The existing facility was at the end of its life span and costs to bring it up to new Building Code standards were very high. As such the financial comparison favoured a new facility. The new project of 14,600 sq.ft serves to create spaces that promote interactions between Health providers and patients and help the state of self-determination in the community.

The Centre is comprised of Early Learning Centre (Child Care and Aboriginal Headstart) programs as well as a Community Centre for celebrations, gatherings and birthday celebrations which is located in the middle of the facility and enhanced by a commercial kitchen that can serve both Early Learning Centre and Community Centre.

Adams Lake Health and Wellness Centre is the recipient of the Wood Works Innovation Award in 2025:

https://www.woodworksinnovationnetwork.org/en-ca/projects/adams-lake-health-wellness-centre

Photos: Unison Architecture

Community
Adams Lake Indian Band
Location
Chase, BC
Type
Health, Cultural + community, Childcare
Status
Complete
Completed
2023
Client
Signia Construction
  • Axonometric drawing and site plan of the expanded health centre.

    Drawing

  • The round gathering space at the heart of the centre, lined with vertical timber and centred on a floor graphic.
  • Looking up into the timber drum, its radiating beams meeting a ring of clerestory glazing.
  • The reception desk in timber, with the curved drum wall behind.
  • The centre seen from the approach road, snow-capped mountains behind.
  • The covered walkway along the front of the building, carried on red steel columns.

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