Atco Icon

Icon is a large scale art piece at the main entrance ATCO's Calgary headquarters that provides signage, seating, and lighting. The design of this piece drew heavily from the history of the ATCO company, which began in 1947 as a housing trailer rental business for workers during Alberta's first oil boom. A central concrete wall displays the design of the iconic ATCO trailer on one side and a map of all the countries ATCO operates on the other side, and is surrounded by two large cor-ten steel grids that use a parallax effect to spell out the ATCO logo to onlookers walking or driving around the building's entry.

In order to iterate through the design and produce complex construction drawings quickly and efficiently, this project used a parametric, or parameter-based, workflow. The parametric process ensured that the design could move seamlessly from the digital model, to the fabrication drawings, and ultimately to the cutting and assembly of the project's 90,000 lbs of steel sheet material, with minimal information lost in translation. This installation was produced in collaboration with Heavy Industries, who managed the discovery and curation, development, and production and install of the project.

Atco RCAF

The Monument to the RCAF is an ode to the original identity of the ATCO Calgary manufacturing facility as the Number 10 Repair Depot for the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. The crews of No.10 Repair Depot overhauled and repaired all aircraft under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) No.4 Training Command. Headquartered in Calgary, the Command encompassed British Columbia, Alberta and most of Saskatchewan. Upon the facility's closure in 1964, the buildings were then used for manufacturing, repair and maintenance by the Alberta Trailer Company (ATCO).