T'Sou-ke Nation Community Complex & Health Centre

The T’Sou-ke Nation Community Complex and Health Centre brings together healthcare, education, and gathering spaces within a landscape shaped by culture, wellness, and connection to land. 

Developed in close collaboration with the T’Sou-ke Nation, the project supports community well-being by integrating medical services, learning, elders’ spaces, and community use within a single setting. The design reflects T’Sou-ke values and priorities, creating a place that supports both care and connection. 

PWL contributed to the design and implementation of the landscape, working alongside the Nation to shape spaces that reflect cultural identity and relationship to place. The landscape is grounded in the surrounding environment, including the ocean and the stickleback at the mouth of the Sooke River, anchoring the project in local ecology and story. 

Outdoor spaces support a range of uses, including gathering, quiet reflection, play, and healing. A medicinal garden and native planting create opportunities for cultural expression and connection to traditional knowledge, while also supporting ecological function. 

The planting palette is composed of native species drawn from West Coast grassland and forest-edge ecosystems. The landscape extends the health centre into the outdoors, supporting physical, cultural, and social well-being through a connected and intentional environment rooted in care and everyday use.