Rosthern Community School

Rosthern Community School

Rosthern Community School

Group 2 Architecture Interior Design ltd.

SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqftBUDGET

BUDGET
$10M - 50M

STATUS
Built 

YEAR
2020

LOCATION
Rosthern, Canada

CATEGORY
Educational › Elementary School High School

Rosthern Community School is a new facility uniting two existing schools in the Town of Rosthern through the development of a new Pre-K to Grade 12 replacement school and child care facility.

Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School

From the onset, it was evident that one of the major success criteria for this new facility would be a thoughtful approach to joining the distinct cultures of the existing Elementary and High School.

Given a student entering Pre-Kindergarten could be spending 13 years in this facility it was also important to find a way to convey a sense of progression and achieving milestones as they progressed through their education.

Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School

This goal had to be balanced with the somewhat contradictory goal of creating a school community for the combined school.

The motto ‘Separate but Together’ was taken on to direct our approach and led to a design in which three distinct wings were created: an Elementary, Middle, and High School.

Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School

The design allows students to experience a sense of progression as they move into new wings of the school. These wings are arrayed around the ‘Heart of the School’.

This Heart is a hub of activity that brings the whole school community together around large, open, two storey volume comprised of the Student Commons, Presentation Stair and Learning Resource Commons.

Rosthern Community School


Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School


Rosthern Community School


Rosthern Community School


Rosthern Community School
Rosthern Community School