The Sherman Jen Building revitalizes and adds to the Hatley Carriage House Mews—a federal heritage building with an interesting history—into a state of the art environmental science laboratory, teaching, and undergraduate hub, on Royal Roads University’s Colwood campus.
Built in 1912 as a horse stable on the Dunsmuir Estate, the building was later turned into a car garage, before being used by the Department of National Defense for rifle training, and then by the university as a conference centre.
Our renovation gives the building its fifth lease of life, an example of how adaptive reuse can preserve heritage while meeting today’s higher education needs—with little environmental impact.