Canada’s Northern House – 2010 Pavillion

January 26, 2010 at 11:36 pm · Filed under Media Installation

Here are some photos of our recently completed installation for the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and Yukon Pavillion for the 2010 Olympics. Urban Visuals designed the sign and the multi-screen Aurora Borealis projection that draws people into the space as well as designed a number of the media installations throughout the venue.

The Exterior sign built with a unique blend of CNC cut acrylic and “Icy” LED lighting.

A key part of the media installation inside the pavillion is a 5 screen synchronized “Fact Wall” that presents facts you might not otherwise know about Canada’s North.

The Fact Wall

The Aurora Borealis at the entrance.

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Samsung: Mapped building projection

January 3, 2010 at 2:19 am · Filed under Media Installation

We recently completed a project with Samsung and Vancouver’s Brandlive to celebrate the beginning of the Samsung activations at the 2010 Olympic Games. This project involved mapping christmas and winter sports visuals on to the Republic building in Vancouver. For a night the dormant panels of the aluminum facade became animated windows and 3D moving blocks

Using the architectural details of the facade as part of the narrative implemented Samsung content and created several winter sports scenes. The project involved close work with Samsung and Brandlive staff, 3 days of testing with a 10k projector and a mapping process we created that allowed for the animations to me adjusted to the building surface on the fly.  For the final day we used a Barco HD 20k projection system and a macbook pro laptop. The un-usually low contrast projection situation ( a lot of ambient light mixed with building surface material) made full 3D illusion difficult, but possible.

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