The Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre building is in Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada. The architects Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden architects + urbanistes, have designed this 1,115 sqm constructed area on the 1,600 acre site area using materials: rammed earth, concrete, bluestain pine cladding.
The cultural centre is designed to be a specifc and sustainable response to the building’s unique context-the unusual Canadian desert found in the South Okanagan Valley. This building is the frst of a number of new B.C. aboriginal centres, and part of a growing trend to explore the expressive potential of architecture to convey the rich past and the transforming future of aboriginal culture. The building has unique design and features the sustainability elements in the entire building.
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