Slag Art Gallery
A master's thesis for a downtown Sudbury gallery built from cast slag, the local smelting by-product.
Patrick Danielson's master's thesis at the University of British Columbia proposed a new building for the Franklin Carmichael Art Gallery, named for the youngest original member of the Group of Seven. The gallery would move from a converted house in Sudbury's historic residential district to a site across the railway from the proposed Elgin Greenway, helping connect that side of the tracks to downtown.
The building uses cast slag, the by-product of local smelting, for structure and finish. Heavy mass along the spine blocks noise from the Trans-Canada railway, cantilevered volumes over the central corridor frame artwork along the long gallery wall, and glazing between the columns looks across the tracks to the market building.
- Status
- Thesis project
- Period
- 2011–2012
- Location
- Sudbury, Ontario
- Sector
- Research and concepts
- Structure
- Cast slag slabs
- Scale
- 3 storeys
- DAO services
- Feasibility studies
- Conceptual design
- Rendering package
Project team and credits
- Architecture advisorsGreg Johnson, Oliver Neumann, Patricia Patkau, Brian Rudy
- Construction advisorsDale Craddock, Jay Drew
- Geology advisorsBetsy Friedlander, Daan Maijer, Michael Parsons
- Mining advisorsMichael Danielson, Joseph Lawless, Ken Scholey
- PaintingsFrank Danielson
- FundingRAIC
