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This is a short interview with the architect of the Fort York Visitor Center in Toronto, Ontario. The building features a glass rainscreen made of Bendheim's channel glass. For more information on channel glass wall systems, visit: [ Ссылка ]
TRANSCRIPT:
“Fort York’s Visitor Center by Kearns Mancini Architects and Patkau Architects delivers a transformed experience of the historic site. As guests enter the fort grounds they step through two expansive translucent walls made of Bendheim channel glass.”
“The source of the glass was actually a stainless steel screen that we were going to project images of the battlefield onto, and that became, like, too technically difficult to do within our budget. So, we looked for an alternate solution which came in the form of the channel glass, which we could back-light and make it have that, like, spectral ghostly feeling at night.”
“The channel glass became the cladding for our inclined plane that is essentially programmatically the time tunnel where people are in a multimedia experience as they come up that plane and then they emerge out at the end and they’re facing the fort itself, and they’ve kind of had the educational experience that the visitor’s center has given them, so the fort becomes a very profound experience to visit.”
“As this part of the building evolved from being ghost screen into being a more substantial element, the choice of glass still has that transparency and almost ghostly quality, especially when illuminated at night. It’s quite beautiful.”
