Telesat
Telesat is a global satellite operator, and when 4té Inc redesigned its headquarters on Elgin Street the brief was a collaborative workspace that felt modern and ran efficiently — conference rooms, collaboration areas, and a lounge and reception looking out over downtown Ottawa and the Gatineau hills. Flux Lighting supplied the lighting and a complete lighting control system.
The control system is what makes the rest of it work. A floor like this is used differently at nine in the morning, at four in the afternoon, and in December than in June — and a single fixed lighting condition serves none of those moments particularly well. Being able to set and re-set levels across the space lets the light follow how the building is actually used rather than how it was drawn, which also happens to be where the efficiency comes from.
The more unusual requirement was display. Telesat holds an extensive collection of art and historic artifacts, and lighting a satellite component or a framed piece is a different discipline from lighting a desk. It needs aim, restraint, and control of spill — so that the object is lit and the wall around it isn’t. Those pieces are how the company tells its own story, and the lighting was asked to treat them that way.
Design by 4té Inc.
Photography by JVL Photography.
