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 prominent site across the railway from the city's proposed Elgin Greenway, and help bridge the divide between the site and downtown.
The design draws on research into slag, the by-product of local smelting, and uses it for both structure and finish. Mass is concentrated along the building's spine to block noise from the Trans-Canada railway. Cantilevered volumes of varying size extend over the central corridor and frame artwork along the long gallery wall. 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
