Lighting in Design November December 2017

Photo credit: The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated.

Photo credit: Moment Facotry.

traffic, news and social media, each hourly show is generated in real-time and is totally unique. The ever-changing content makes the Jacques Cartier Bridge a true barometer of Montreal life. The bridge opened to great fanfare earlier this year with an inaugural celebration that included a light display to showcase the programming features of the lighting system. Project team: 1. Art concept created by multimedia studio, Mo- ment Factory, in collaboration with six Montreal multimedia and lighting studios: Ambiances Design Productions, ATOMIC3, Éclairage Public / Ombrages, Lucion Média, Réalisations and UDO Design. 2. Project management by The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated. 3. Engineering work done by the consortium WSP–AECOM. 4. Lighting system installation by Pomerleau. 5. Lighting technology by Lumenpulse and Philips Lighting.

and 10 000 mounting systems were used to secure the lighting fixtures to the steel supports on the bridge (about five per light). Interaction with social media Real-time interactive mode with social media is 52 minutes each hour. Twitter users can interact directly with the Jacques Cartier Bridge, causing a point of light to appear from one of the bridge’s ‘towers’ and move across the bridge’s skin. Two real-time social media feeds are used: Tweets making reference to Montreal (e.g. #montreal); and tweets addressed to bridge-specific hashtags (e.g. #illuminationMTL). Two distinct colours are used to differentiate the tweets for Montreal from the tweets for the bridge. Up to 500 light points, rep- resenting the most recent and most-liked tweets, circulate simultaneously on the bridge’s skin, before the oldest and least popular gently fade out. The eight-minute hourly show is based on big data collected fromMontreal.The bridge translates urban big data collected from sensors over the course of the day and updated every hour, into a se- ries of eye-catching data visualisations. Pulling from a wide variety of data sources, including weather,

Photo credit: Moment Factory.

Photo credit: The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated.

Photo credit: The Jacques Cartier and Champlain Bridges Incorporated.

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