Join Low Hammond Rowe to explore the New Indigenous Law Wing at UVic. This project transforms UVic’s Fraser Law Building, providing a fully integrated home for the University’s Canadian Common Law and Indigenous Legal Orders program (JD/JID), a joint common law/Indigenous law degree. Such purpose-built space and program for the study of Indigenous laws is the first of its kind in Canada and globally unique.

By expanding and renovating the Fraser Building, the university has created a national hub for dialogue, research, and knowledge transfer. The design process was a truly collaborative effort, with the architectural team engaging with and listening to staff, students and the Indigenous nations of the territory that the university is built on.

The design honours its host, the Coast Salish peoples, and key community members were consulted throughout the project, including Elders, Hereditary Chiefs, artists and knowledge keepers from the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ communities. Foundational elements emerged from these sessions, which formed the basis of guiding design principles. This building tour will highlight the interpretation and translation of these design principles into the built form of the Indigenous Law Wing. (Architectural team: Two Row Architect + Teeple Architects + Low Hammond Rowe Architects)

2 sessions: 2:00-2:45 and 2:30-3:15, 15 people per tour