Flin Flon Provincial Courthouse
Flin Flon, MB
The Flin Flon Provincial Courthouse celebrates the unique contextual setting of a Northern industrial mining and smelting town. The building dignifies Flin Flon’s industrial roots and the local community’s familiarity with steel, tension cables and clamped industrial erections.
Sandblasted concrete blocks are stripped with copper and zinc – the product of the mines. The door to the courtroom is bronze, the industrial product of smelting. The exterior of the building is red corrugated steel, recalling the local industrial buildings.
The Provincial Courthouse was designed to meet demanding energy standards and utilizes passive solar energy to aid in the heating of the building, lowering the building’s energy requirements.
Structure
Steel pipe columns, tube trusses, standard joists, and hollow core plank.
Skin
4-ply built up roof; steel stud and commercial curtain wall in a control grid hung on wall clips. Glazed and infill panels of painted industrial corrugated aluminum.
Mechanical
Variable volume, all air heating and cooling system; return air through atrium; hung ceilings and walls enclose rooms as cubes in space. The corridors are return air plenums circulating the air around the room cubes.
Electrical
Standard, fluorescent lay-in fixtures in a lay-in tile ceiling.
Fitments
Public areas contain plastic laminate panels screwed to steel studs; private areas have traditional drywall application to steel studs. Floor surfaces are carpeted throughout.
Action Strategies
The Provincial Courthouse, due to its remote location, was conceived as a series of large components that were built in Winnipeg and shipped 700 miles north to be assembled on-site, to assure an economical and high quality construction. All elements of the building were selected directly from a manufacturer’s catalog and can be easily replaced by one of several manufacturers.
Key Information
Completed
1985
Project Cost
$1.5M
Building Area
1,670 m²/18,000 ft²
Publications
Architecture – March 1987
Flin Flon Provincial Courthouse
Flin Flon, MB
The Flin Flon Provincial Courthouse celebrates the unique contextual setting of a Northern industrial mining and smelting town. The building dignifies Flin Flon’s industrial roots and the local community’s familiarity with steel, tension cables and clamped industrial erections.
Sandblasted concrete blocks are stripped with copper and zinc – the product of the mines. The door to the courtroom is bronze, the industrial product of smelting. The exterior of the building is red corrugated steel, recalling the local industrial buildings.
The Provincial Courthouse was designed to meet demanding energy standards and utilizes passive solar energy to aid in the heating of the building, lowering the building’s energy requirements.
Structure
Steel pipe columns, tube trusses, standard joists, and hollow core plank.
Skin
4-ply built up roof; steel stud and commercial curtain wall in a control grid hung on wall clips. Glazed and infill panels of painted industrial corrugated aluminum.
Mechanical
Variable volume, all air heating and cooling system; return air through atrium; hung ceilings and walls enclose rooms as cubes in space. The corridors are return air plenums circulating the air around the room cubes.
Electrical
Standard, fluorescent lay-in fixtures in a lay-in tile ceiling.
Fitments
Public areas contain plastic laminate panels screwed to steel studs; private areas have traditional drywall application to steel studs. Floor surfaces are carpeted throughout.
Action Strategies
The Provincial Courthouse, due to its remote location, was conceived as a series of large components that were built in Winnipeg and shipped 700 miles north to be assembled on-site, to assure an economical and high quality construction. All elements of the building were selected directly from a manufacturer’s catalog and can be easily replaced by one of several manufacturers.
Key Information
Completed
1985
Project Cost
$1.5M
Building Area
1,670 m²/18,000 ft²
Publications
Architecture – March 1987
