GCworkplace
GCworkplace is the Government of Canada’s rethink of how the public service works, and it moves well past the open-plan orthodoxy of Workplace 2.0. Rather than one uniform floor, the model offers a variety of work points: places to concentrate alone, places to collaborate, places to meet. Flux Lighting delivered the lighting and lighting controls for this co-working space in Gatineau, designed by LWG Architectural Interiors.
A building that asks people to move between different kinds of work needs light that moves with them. The scheme sets appropriate light levels for the task at hand — brighter and more even where focused work happens, softer where people gather — while the controls let each area be tuned rather than left at a single fixed setting. The lighting is doing compositional work too: it creates visual interest across a large floor and helps the different work points read as distinct places rather than zones on a plan.
Accessibility was a stated priority, with a clear recognition that barriers need removing. Light levels, contrast and glare bear directly on that — they determine how easily a space can be read and navigated — so getting them right was part of the accessibility brief, not separate from it.
Design by LWG Architectural Interiors.
Photography by Kevin Belanger..
