CFB Borden – Curtiss Dining Facility (Photo: Brenda Liu)
Montreal-based firm FABRIQ Architecture and Toronto-based ZAS Architects have recently collaborated to complete two new dining facilities at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, north of Toronto, Ontario. The new facilities are intended to replace the dozen or so disparate ones currently being used at the base.
CFB Borden – Curtiss Dining Facility (Photo: Brenda Liu)
The new facilities integrate into the base?s masterplan of a pedestrian campus and nearly all diners will reach them by foot. The program for each building includes the dining hall, kitchen facilities and office areas, as well as washroom and first aid facilities for the adjacent soccer pitches. Each facility is designed to address current food service deficiencies and to prepare for future needs, seating 750 at a time, for a total of 1,500 diners per meal through 2 sittings. CFB Borden – Vickers Dining Facility (Photo: Brenda Liu)
The design strategy for these prototype kitchen and dining facilities focused on providing pleasant, efficient and enduring buildings with plenty of natural light and optimized interior traffic flows. The exterior forms are deliberately orthogonal, streamlined and understated in order to produce elegant buildings that fit in with the existing built environment at the base.
CFB Borden – Vickers Dining Facility (Photo: Brenda Liu)
As you enter the facilities, the aesthetic changes, and interi...