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INSTITUTIONAL

St. Anthony Coptic

Orthodox
Monastery, Perth
PR-TY is excited to share in the vision
planning for St. Anthony’s Coptic Orthodox
Monastery, which will be the first monastery
for the Coptic Orthodox Christian
community in Canada.

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THE SITE:

Located in Perth Canada, on a 280 acre site

of beautiful Canadian shield landscape, this
design from the beginning intended to bring
monks and other visitors closer to nature to
enrich their faith and practice.

PHASE 1 MASTER PLAN STAGE:

The Monastery commissioned Stantec and

PR-TY to prepare a fifty year Master Plan to
guide land development and to obtain
approvals from the Tay Valley in Perth
Ontario.

PROPOSED USES:

The site will accommodate a Monastery

building that will eventually accommodate
50 Monks. Other uses include St Mina’s
Lodge which will accommodate up to 50
members of the faith who will participate in
spiritual retreats and other activities, a 99
person church and other ancillary uses. The
building that is currently on the site and
houses some of the monks will be re-
purposed.

THE CONSULTANT TEAM:

In order to obtain the necessary approvals

from multiple local and provincial agencies it
was necessary to put in place a multi
disciplinary specialist consultant group. This
master plan group included land use
planners, biologists, hydrogeologists,
electrical engineers, civil engineers,
landscape architects, geotechnical
engineers, building code specialists and
architects. This team was made up by
members of Stantec and PR-TY and led by
Magdi Farid P. Eng.

MASTER PLAN PROJECT GUIDING

PRINCIPLES:

A PLAN THAT MEETS POLICY

The Plan should support and honour the
spirit of the Official Plan.

A PLAN WITH MEANING

The Plan should consider cultural and
religious symbology, placement, orientation,
and ritual to inform matters from open space
to opportunities for art.

A PLAN WITH PATHS

Consideration should be given to more
public paths for visitors, paths for monks,
and how the Rideau Trail could interface
with the site.

RESPONDING TO NATURE:
The Plan should accommodate future
growth, but also consider the existing
environment to minimize the impacts to
nature.

CELEBRATING SPIRITUAL SPACES

The Plan should consider areas of great
aesthetic spiritual value to help facilitate a
range of functions, from contemplative to
instructional.

A SUSTAINABLE PLAN
The Plan should consider all sustainable
elements, from the physical to the financial.
Options will explore forward-thinking
infrastructure opportunities that will assist in
responsible, sustainable development.

CONNECTED
The Plan should consider building
placement that promotes connectivity
among all uses, while still allowing for a
more private location for the monks.

DESIGN FOR SAFETY

The Plan must accommodate emergency
response needs.

SERVICE CAPACITY
The Plan must accommodate ultimate
capacity needed, and the potential to be
effective and efficient.

PRACTICAL PARKING
The Plan should emphasize rightsizing of
parking as well as locating parking that can
accommodate larger events, but not more
than is needed.

ROOM FOR GROWTH

Plan the site to anticipate growth over time.
Ensure all building site locations have
appropriate initial and ultimate growth
opportunities.

Please refer to the Master Plan document

for more information.
Part 1 & Part 2

SITE PLAN APPROVAL

Together with the overall Master Plan

approval it was necessary to provide
schematic level building designs for site
plan approval for the proposed Monastery,
Mina’s Lodge and Church.

MONKS’ FACILITY MAIN BUILDING:

The Monk’s building is critical to the

continuing growth of the Monastery. The
building must offer visual and acoustical
privacy to the monks from other buildings
and areas occupied by visitors. The monk
will pray in the chapel with others, stay in his
cell, use the library, eat, or work within this
building. This is the primary area where
monks spend their time and therefore the
nucleus of the monastery. Work areas, such
as farm land, fish farm, green houses, tool
shed, etc., should be in close proximity. The
Core Building total size is approximately
1,105 m2.

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MONKS CELLS

The monks’ cells or ‘residential units’ are

connected to the monks main facility
building. Each cell must be sufficient for the
resident to live comfortably. Each cell must
strike the fine line between providing
privacy and a relationship to nature while
maintaining a physical connection to the
main building. All 50 cells would not be built
at once. Initially up to 10 cells would be built
and more would be added as the monastic
community expanded. One monks; cell unit
total size is approximately 225 m2 (each).

THE CHURCH:
for 99 people

The Church will be a place of worship for up

to 99 people. It will be a simple design with
one small kitchen solely for making bread as
well as a baptismal for the church.

ST. MINA’S LODGE:

welcoming the public

St. Mina’s Lodge will be a 2 story building

that has capacity to accommodate up to 50
visitors. There will be a kitchen, dining area,
& conference room. Large enough to seat
70 visitors.

Both the Church and Mina’s Lodge were

developed in plan and in elevation in
sufficient detail to satisfy the Site Plan
submission requirements for Tay Valley.

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PHASE 2 MONASTERY DETAILED DESIGN

STAGE
Pope Tawadros II gave approval for the
proposed design and PR-TY was
commissioned to further develop the
Monastery design in order to submit for
Building Permit by the end of 2019 with
commencement of construction in spring
2020.

The designs shown here indicate the final

approved project for which work is currently
in progress.

INITIAL THREE CONCEPTS

PR-TY proposed three basic concepts for

consideration by the monastery
representatives. Each concept assumes a
main monks facility connected to the monks
cells by a corridor link. Each are
differentiated in form. The monastery
representatives were required to select the
one they felt best satisfied their needs.

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(1) Linear Concept

This concept focused on maximizing

building efficiency from a services
perspective, while allowing the best views
for monks

(2) Circular Court Concept -

This concept aimed to reinterpret traditional

monastic forms for a contemporary and
contextually appropriate solution

(3) The Contour Concept -

This concept aimed to relate buildings to

the existing landscape and ground contours
while maximizing views of the natural
landscape.

The monastery representatives selected the

Contour Concept and this was developed in
plan and in elevation in sufficient detail to
satisfy the Site Plan submission
requirements for Tay valley.

PROJECT TEAM:

Project Manager / Co-ordinator: Magdi Farid

P.Eng. Eternal Engineering Corp.

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Civil Engineering:

• Morrison Hershfield

Building Code Consultant:

• Morrison Hershfield

Landscape Architect

• James B. Lennox & Associates Inc.

Architectural PR-TY Architects:

• Principal in Charge -
Eliseo Temprano OAA, FRAIC, AIA
(Hon)

• Project Architect -
Ian L. Young OAA

• Schematic Design & Design

Development-
Alberto Temprano Intern Architect

Mechanical & Electrical Consultants:

• Quadrant Engineering Limited

Structural Engineering:

• Adjeleian Allen Rubeli Limited

PR-TY Architects Inc.

Pye & Richards - Temprano & Young

Architects Inc.
824 Meath St., Suite 200
Ottawa, ON K1Z 6E8
T | 613. 724. 7700

info@prty.ca

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