Visit the Showroom
Our Ottawa showroom is a working studio, not a display floor. The tunable white runs a full day. The shading and the lighting sit on one control system. The architectural audio is in rooms where you cannot see it. All of it is installed and programmed the way it would be on a job, and all of it is running when you walk in.
Which makes it useful for the things a cut sheet cannot settle — how a room actually moves from morning to evening, how a keypad reads to someone seeing it for the first time, what a client says when the light changes. Visits are by appointment. Tell us what you are working on and the room will be set up for it.
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What you can do here in an hour
Most of these take a few minutes, and most of them settle a question that email could not.
- Watch a whole day pass in a few minutes. The Ketra installation is programmed to a full daily arc, and we speed the day up so you can see morning, noon and evening from the same chair.
- Ask the room a question. Josh.ai is installed and listening, so you can hear what natural-language control actually sounds like before you put it in front of a client.
- Try to find the speakers. Sonance architectural audio plays in rooms with nothing visible in the ceiling or the wall. Most people end up walking the perimeter looking for grilles.
- Drop a shade and watch the glare go. The shading and the lighting run off one control system, so you see them behave as a single thing rather than two systems sharing a wall.
Bring the people who will have to live with it
The demonstration does the most work when the person who will operate the system is standing in it. Bring the architect, bring the interior designer, bring the client, bring whoever ends up holding the keypad the week after handover. A scene that reads well on a schedule and confuses the person using it every day is the kind of problem that is cheap to find here and expensive to find later.
The room is domestic. The questions aren’t.
It’s a house, more or less. A kitchen you could cook in. A living room with a fireplace and drapery on the glazing. A lounge that actually goes dark. That’s deliberate: a room at domestic scale is the only place you can watch light behave the way it will behave in a home — how a tunable source moves through a day, how a keypad reads to someone touching it for the first time, how far a dimmed source will go before it stops being smooth. None of that is in the fixture schedule.
And it carries. The behaviour is the same on a commercial floor even when the schedule isn’t, and we work that version through afterwards, at the table, with your drawings open. The studio’s been part of Flux for more than a decade, and it still does the rest of its job — client meetings, manufacturer demonstrations and our education sessions all happen in it.
What a visit looks like
A visit usually runs about an hour — time in the studio, then time at the table with your drawings open. Bring the architect, bring the client, bring whoever will end up operating the system. There is nothing to sign at the end of it.
Good to know before you visit
We are by appointment only, and that is deliberate — an unstaffed showroom is a showroom where nothing is running. Booking a time means the scenes are loaded, the audio is on, and someone who knows the systems is in the room with you. We are here Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Bring a drawing, bring a question, or bring nothing at all. The room does most of the talking.
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