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Lux Gloria

Location: Cathedral of the Holy Family, Saskatoon, SK
Description: 3 monumental south facade solar windows (grid tied)

These three 37-foot-high windows are embedded with 1015 embedded silver coloured solar cells which collect energy for the Cathedral. This is a grid-tied installation. The painted glass of abstract white and primary colours fits perfectly into the south facing façade. Holy Family is the first Cathedral in the world to incorporate solar energy collection in its art glass.

The Science of Light

Location: Grass Valley Elementary School, Camas, WA
Description: Solar Energy Collection

Diagram demonstrating solar energy collection for The Science of Light project at Grass Valley Elementary School in Camas, WA.

The Science of Light

Location: Grass Valley Elementary School, Camas, WA
Description: 12 Main Entryway Stairwell Windows, embedded solar cells and solar LED fixture

This project was initiated by Portland architects who were designing a public elementary school that showcased green technologies. They wanted a clearly visible ‘teaching’ project that highlighted solar energy. The main staircase window of the school was a perfect location.

Lux Nova

Location: Regent College, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Description: Solar Energy

Diagram showing the harnessing of solar energy for Lux Nova at Regent College, UBC, Vancouver, BC

Lux Nova

Location: Regent College, UBC, Vancouver, BC
Description: Wind Tower featuring 12 solar art glass panels, solar storage, and LED lighting

The 40 foot high wind tower sits above a theology library at Regent College. Layers of symbols and technology create the glass: embedded solar cells, 12 dichroic glass crosses, the Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic, and a waterfall of light. At night, the surrounding park is illuminated by an LED column – light generated from the solar cells.

Northern Light

Location: Northern Light House, Solar Decathlon, Washington, DC
Description: Reception foyer art glass window with solar cells, battery storage and LED fixture.

This window was the first art glass in North America to have embedded working solar cells. I worked with Concordia University and Peters Studio in Paderborn to make this prototype for the Solar Decathlon in Washington, DC.

Glory Window

Location: Cathedral of the Holy Family, Saskatoon, SK
Description: One of 5 monumental sanctuary windows

“It may be helpful to think of the Glory window as a parable told in stained glass. It uses not words but image, line and texture, tint and hue, angles of light and streams of colour as its forms in trying to evoke the biblical promise of life in God’s presence, Lux Gloria. When the early morning sun, unimpeded by clouds, beams through this large east-facing window, it floods the cathedral with glorious light.”
ARCHBISHOP DONALD BOLEN

Centennial Window

Location: Rosedale United Church, Toronto, ON
Description: Narthex window with exterior art glass

For as the days of a tree,
so shall be the days of my people.
ISAIAH 65:22

A Tree of Life

Location: Redeemer Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, OH
Description: Narthex, Chancel Windows

“The religious imagination survives for most people today as not just the primary but virtually the only credible instance of an imagination working in a total way.”
SUSAN SONTAG

The Living Cross

Location: Thornhill United Church, Thornhill, ON
Description: Sanctuary Rosette Window

“Sarah Hall re-conceptualizes devotional spaces and images in new ways. In her magnificent ‘Living Cross’ Rosette Window, she has the vegetative colours of life in the form of a cross, suggesting the Resurrection and Pentecost as much as the Crucifixion itself. She re-imagines Christ as nature, a tree, a plant, as ‘the force that through the green fuse drives the flower’(Dylan Thomas). The crucifixion is living, and recurrent. It goes on at all times, in all places.”
J S PORTER