In Part 2 of our series with naturally:wood, we head to the Okanagan region of British Columbia, one of Canada’s fastest growing regions. Best known for its wineries, orchards and warm dry summers, the Okanagan turns out to also be one of the most interesting places in BC to explore mass timber, from adaptive reuse warehouses to a six-storey CLT and glulam hotel to a desert cultural centre built with beetle-stained pine.
Join us on a road trip from Hope through Kelowna, Penticton and all the way south to Osoyoos, with a few glasses of Okanagan wine along the way.
What we cover in this episode:
– The Exchange, Kelowna: A mixed-use development by Faction, with both adaptive reuse and new buildings – utilising nail laminated timber (NLT), parallel strand lumber (PSL), and reclaimed timber.
– Sandhill Winery, Kelowna: Right next door to the Exchange, a winery showcasing glulam.
– Penticton Lakeside Resort: A six-storey CLT and glulam hotel built in one year on a floodplain, demonstrating the speed mass timber construction
– Chronos Winery: Where a historic movie theatre is reborn as a downtown winery showcasing curved glulam and NLT in the winery, and a modern, two-storey mass timber addition housing a restaurant and tasting lounge featuring exposed glulam trusses and CLT roof.
– KF Centre for Excellence, Kelowna: An aircraft museum built from local BC timber. A hybrid CLT, glulam, dowel lam and cable structure that pushes the boundaries of what mass timber can do.
– Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre, Osoyoos: A building in collaboration with the Osoyoos Indian Band, combining rammed earth, turf roof, and pine beetle-stained timber to tell the story of the Okanagan First Nations people and their relationship with the surrounding land.
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