GORGE PARK PAVILION Community building cuts energy demand, connects with nature and history By Richard Iredale Forming a gateway to Victoria’s historic Esquimalt Gorge Park and standing adjacent to the historic Japanese garden and the site of Esquimalt’s former Japanese Teahouse, the Gorge Park Pavilion draws on traditional Japanese design elements to honour the site’s complicated past while making space for a more socially sustainable future.
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Environmentally, the building’s strategic placement gives its striking roof— clad with 252 high-efficiency photo voltaic modules — a southfacing orientation, enabling it to generate enough electricity to meet the year-round power needs of the building with additional power reserves for the site’s electric vehicle charging stations.