Westbrook Community Center

Institutional Buildings

Project Specifications

Location

Vancouver, BC

Size

30,600 square feet

General Contractor

Scott Construction

Owner

University of British Columbia 

Architect

Francl Architecture Inc. 

Completion Date

2015

Overall Scope

Approximately 12,000 square feet of thermally broken stick-built curtainwall, including integrated vents and commercial aluminum swing doors

Project Summary

The Wesbrook Community Centre is a 30,600 sq. ft. institutional facility located at 5998 Berton Avenue on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver. Designed by Francl Architecture Inc. and delivered by Scott Construction, the building serves the Wesbrook Village neighbourhood with a full range of community amenities including a gymnasium, fitness centre, dance studio, café, music rooms, and multi-purpose spaces organized around a central atrium. The project received a 2016 VRCA Silver Award of Excellence.

Vision West supplied and installed approximately 12,000 sq. ft. of thermally broken stick-built curtainwall across all glazed elevations of the building. The scope encompasses the full exterior envelope — from the floor-to-ceiling atrium and main entrance glazing to the gymnasium clerestory band and the second-floor fitness centre ribbon. Operable vents are integrated directly into the curtainwall framing, and commercial aluminum swing doors are incorporated throughout. The thermally broken system was specified to meet the performance demands of a high-use public facility on the UBC campus.

The curtainwall scope presented coordination challenges inherent to the building’s hybrid structural system, which combines heavy timber, glulam, structural steel, and reinforced concrete. Interfacing stick-built curtainwall with exposed CLT wall panels, glulam columns, and cantilevered floor slabs required precise detailing at each condition — no two head, sill, or jamb transitions were identical. The result is a clean, consistent glass envelope that reads as a unified system across a structurally complex building.

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A spacious indoor gymnasium with a wooden interior, two basketball hoops on opposite walls, large windows letting in natural light, and marked courts on the floor.
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