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PROJECT / MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE MONTRÉAL, MONTRÉAL, CANADA Pic: Marc Cramer
“We are ecstatic to have the opportunity of showcasing our expertise here in our home town of Montreal. Place des Arts is at the centre of the Quartier des spectacles, and we hope that this signature project will be enjoyed by the public for years to come,” François Roupinian, lightemotion’s principal
The lighting of MAC includes 133 Lumenpulse LED fixtures using a maximum of 36W each. The base of the building and the colonnade is illuminated by 100 Lumenpulse Lumenbeam RGB fixtures. The top of the building is illuminated with an array of 82 Philips Color Kinetics ColorBlast 12 Powercore luminaires. The entire system is controlled by a Martin Maxxyz PC DMX controller
Pic: Martine Doyon
core units. The entire system is controlled by a Martin Maxxyz PC DMX controller. “We bathed the lower stone façade in soft hues of light to create the illusion of the colonnade floating on a vaporous cloud of light,” explains Roupinian. “All the light sources are hidden, it is as if the light is coming from nowhere. It gives the impres- sion that the building glows from within. The colours used are soft variations of cool shades of white that verges onto blue.” The copper panel, used to crown the top of the museum, is grazed with LED RGB fixtures with very tight beams that create textured effects as the light hits the differ- ent textures of the paneled copper. Warm and amber tones are used to accentuate the copper look and create a very bold state- ment in the landscape. “We tested lots of fixtures for this project as we needed two different effects for the job: a very smooth powerful wash of RGB light and an extremely tight RGB beam,” explains Roupinian. “After the testing procedure it was clear the Lumenpulse Lumenbeam fixture was the best fit for the smooth wash - the colour mix and beam spread was exceptional. For the tight beam we used Philips Color Kinetics 8° Colorblast as it is a very powerful unit and the beam of light it produces is very clean.” “The size of the fixtures was also an im- portant factor in the choices we made. The soft frontal wash that bathes the lower base is produced by the Lumenbeams that are carefully hidden in the lower tranches at the base of the building, it is as if the light- ing is coming from nowhere.
“The grazing effect of the copper crown is produced by the Colorblasts that are fixed on a small stem coming out two feet from the top of the building. The fixtures had to be small and very slick to be able to blend in the background.”
The entire scheme is dynamic with the museum being used as an urban clock - a scenario that evolves during the course of the night. Every fifteen minutes a subtle light change occurs and the copper becomes more and more animated with slow waves of light as it approaches the end of each passing hour.
The stair-like upper structure of the Théâtre Maisonneuve of Place des Arts is wrapped in warm light, while the lower vol-
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