École Beausoleil is a temporary, modular, 1,470 m2, single-storey, K-8 elementary school for 150 students. It includes 6 classrooms, 1 kindergarten, administration, special education, library, multipurpose space, and gymnasium. Twelve modular, factory-built classrooms, stitched together with a heavy timber canopy that provides covered corridor and gathering space.

Contingencies required that École Beausoleil be designed and built in an accelerated timeline of only fourteen months. The school will be in place for three to five years, while a new permanent school is being designed and constructed. It has been designed so that it can disassembled, transported and re-installed on other School District sites.

Client: Conseil Scolaire Francophone de la Colombie Britannique (SD93)
Location: Saanich, BC: Unceded territories of the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations and WSÁNEĆ peoples
Completion: 2022
Team: Principle Architecture (Architecture), Herald Engineering (Structural), Rocky Point Engineering (Mechanical), AES (Electrical), LADRA (Landscape Architecture), Ryzuk Geotechnical (Civil)