Description of the project

Due to lack of space, the museum could no longer fulfill its mission. New volumes were added to allow for social and cultural events and thus open the museum to the community with both indoor and outdoor spaces.

The new spaces were designed in a refined architecture: two temporary exhibition rooms, a double-height entrance hall, a creation room with three curtain walls, and an outdoor terrace. It was important for each of these spaces that the integration of the infrastructures for museum services be discreet and harmonious.

Our involvement

Our involvement was complete and total from the first sketches to the final delivery of the project. In collaboration with the architect, the engineers and the museum, we conceptualized the various temporary exhibition spaces, the entrance hall, the creation room, the technical and common areas and the outdoor terrace. Our expertise was useful to the architect in the production of his plans and specifications for the wrought metals involved in the hanging structures. We produced the plans and specifications for the acquisition and installation of multimedia and museum equipment. We also followed up on the work by assisting other professionals in validating the work of the general contractor for the museum infrastructures as well as ensuring the follow-up of the work of the multimedia contractor.

Project Description

This building, located in the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, houses a work and research environment that brings together various disciplines in one location, such as a genomics laboratory, a necropsy laboratory, teaching rooms, and a multitude of meeting and conference rooms with videoconferencing. But also, which was a much appreciated aspect of this project, a portion of the building is reserved for production, culture and community activities, such as an interpretation centre, a large multi-purpose room equipped with a video projection and videoconferencing system, and a post-production studio serving citizens and the research centre.

Our implication

We have realized the scenic and technological infrastructures for the interpretation centre, the large multifunctional hall which is equipped with a video projection and videoconferencing system. As well as the post-production studio serving the public and the research centre. In collaboration with the team of professionals, we wanted to push back the limits of the original concept in order to integrate a multitude of technical services from various horizons such as audio and video post-production, museum facilities, simultaneous translation, institutional audio, videoconferencing and e-learning systems.

To optimize the delivery of the equipment and to anticipate protocol problems between them, all the equipment cabinets were assembled, put into operation and connected with multiconnectors in Toronto. The cabinets were then delivered as is and interconnected on site. This gave everyone the assurance that everything was fully functional once on site in the High Arctic.