
Date: 2015
Client: RAIC Festival/MBAC
Principal Investigators: Jason S. Johnson, Joshua M. Taron
Consultants:Entuitive (Engineering)
Project Budget: $20,000
Research Assistants/ Project Team : Matthew Parker,
Logan Armstrong, Christina James, Nicholas Perseo
Funding Agencies/Sponsors: SSHRC, CMLC, MBAC,
Meadow Sage Builders, Clark Builders, EVDS University of Calgary
Project Description: The Flat Screen TV seeks to reclaim the presence of architecture and its imagery in the public realm. CNC milled opaque plywood panels expose a depth to the otherwise thin planar surfaces revealing lit polyethylene panels beneath. This artificial topography is wrapped around a cantilevered form that addresses both the pedestrian corridor of Stephen Ave directly across and the RAIC Design Hub. A gradient of openings migrate across the form toward the street, concluding with a 14 x 7 foot rear projection screen showing the work of 15 young Canadian architecture firms in the RAIC’s Future Voice: Situating Architecture Exhibition curated by Marc Boutin of MBAC.




Given tight time and budget constraints we deployed a “rough cut” technique that exposed the seams of the panels and the material layers embedded in the marine plywood. This technique produces a contrast between the high definition images projected on the content surface and the rough nature of the milled surfaces.
Photo by Nicola Johnson Photo by Nicola Johnson Photo by Nicola Johnson Photo by Nicola Johnson Photo by Nicola Johnson Photo by Nicola Johnson