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.
