Professional training center of Val-d’Or

Adjoining Val-d’Or’s Polyvalente Le Carrefour secondary school, the new vocational training centre consists of a multi-purpose workshop, a soldering workshop, a research centre, a simulator training centre and administrative spaces.

The architecture chosen for the Val-d’Or Professional Training Centre conveys its primary function as a place of teaching and research in professional development and clearly reflects the mining specialization. It is a concept inspired by the material and immaterial qualities associated with mining and puts the one-of-a-kind expertise of the Centre national des mines front and centre. A wall of gabions and the copper panels stacked in layers on the research centre’s main volume pay tribute to that unique identity.