Frog Lake First Nations Children and Family Intervention / Prevention Healing Centre

The Frog Lake First Nations’ Children & Family, Intervention/Prevention Horse Healing Centre is designed to integrate both contemporary and traditional therapeutic approaches through the bond formed between humans and horses. To facilitate these activities, the centre features a stable for 28 horses, a spacious 1,150-square-metre indoor riding arena complete with viewing areas, tack storage, and an indoor round pen.

Supporting facilities include paddocks, pastures, an outdoor riding space, ceremonial grounds, a playground for children, an amphitheater, and tranquil healing gardens that enhance the healing environment.

Set against a gently rolling landscape, the Centre utilizes the natural topography, cascading down the lower southern slope, which helps direct surface runoff into a pond that serves as a skating rink during winter months

Concrete piling supports the locally sourced Spruce-Pine-Fir (SPF) glulam beams, configured in free-flowing curves and spanning over the open arena. GLT roof panels were selected to accommodate the roof’s curvature.

Thin, horizontally staggered, thermally treated cedar planks clad much of the exterior, contrasting with the stone which clads around the cultural room and museum

This initiative aims for a net-zero and carbon-neutral outcome, employing passive solar, wind, and water techniques, in addition to solar energy panels and a geothermal loop, enabling the facility to function entirely on electricity while generating its own energy resources.

Renders courtesy of Reimagine Architects /Jonathan Kostawich