THE LEGACY ROOM

A full project assembly was completed in our workshop in Toronto to ensure each of the approx 600 unique elements fit perfectly together into the complicated design assembly. Textured solid oak wall panels, door panels and undulating circular light features were programmed and machined using our digital fabrication technologies to create a unique outcome in this feature room dedicated to providing education and spreading awareness about Indigenous history and the journey of reconciliation in Canada.

From the designers:

“The Indigenous Design Studio at Brook McIlroy designed the Legacy Room, with its vaulted ceiling, to reference the traditional form of the Midewiwin Lodge as built by the Anishinaabe (Ojibway) as well as the longhouses of the Huron-Wendate and Haudenosaunee longhouse villages. Three round light apertures reference the Niswi-mishkodewinan or Council of Three Fires – the Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi nations.

Leading visitors to the space, the adjacent corridor features a ceiling inspired by Guswenta or Two Row Wampum, one of the first treaties. Additionally, the environmental graphics were designed to depict the Toronto Purchase Treaty and as a reminder all peoples are subject to the treaties and have a shared responsibility to uphold their obligations.”