flux
Project Design and Fabrication: Kory Bieg, Andre Caradec, Andrew Kudless
Parametric Design Consultant: Andy Payne
Sponsors: K Bieg Design, Studio Under Manufacture, Solid Thinking
Director of Architecture, CCA: Ila Berman
The FLUX installation, developed over 6 months by a team of CCA faculty and students, explores the possibilities of parametric modeling and digital fabrication at CCA. The structure undulates in plan and section producing a sense of expansion and contraction in the long Nave space. Through the use of parametric modeling and a series of custom designed scripts, the installation design can be quickly updated to address new design criteria. From the thickness of the ribs to the overall twisting geometry and perforated skins, the geometry is controlled through a complex set of relationships between its formal, performative, and fabrication constraints.
images courtesy of Kory Bieg and Andrew Payne
Fabrication Team:
Laurice der Bedrossian
Loi Dinh
David Garcia
Charlotte Hofstetter
Wayne Lin
Sandra Lopez
Jen Melendez
Michelle Mucker
Jason Rhein
christ the light
In conjunction with SOM SF, S/U/M was asked to design a pair of acoustically optimized pipe organ enclosures within the main congregation space of the Christ the Light Cathedral in Oakland, CA. Acoustic performance, structural support for the massive organ pipes, and integrating with the structural lightness of the building shell were the primary performance criteria for the design.
hive
Industry Partners Thompson Brooks Inc. and SURFACEDESIGN, Inc. approached S/U/M to produce a landscape feature for a private residence that children can hide within.
composite house
Walker & Moody architects (architect of record) of San Francisco, along with the designer/client, asked S/U/M to consult in the production of a digital “super model” to aid in the manufacturing of a residence in Tiburon, California.
S/U/M was asked to coordinate transferring the detailed digital 3d forms for the complex fiberglass building units digitally fabricated by Kreysler & Associates, as well as coordinate the structural engineering of the steel and finite element analysis (FEA) with the structural designers. This highly coordinated 3d model file would then be used to generate everything from the forms to create the monoqoque structures to templating the bolt patterns for the structural steel elements.
Along with production of the digital construction documents, S/U/M also worked on the construction side of the project by producing an elaborate system of 2d site templates to arrange the complex geometrical foundation systems of the project to match the off site prefabricated structures.
S/U/M also produced an assembly of structural ribs for one of the geometrically complex building units on site
MoMA/PS1
Graftworks LLC contacted S/U/M to help develop an efficient and easy to assemble plywood structural system that would produce an array of different configurations while keeping waste and part count to a minimum.
The proposal represents one of five finalists of the sixth annual MoMA/P.S.1 Young Architects Program. MoMA/P.S.1’s brief, to create an artificial landscape- the Urban Beach, prompted a proposal which attempts to collapse two ideas of creating an exotic water environment with an architectural expression that is both authentic and has a clear and economic construction logic.
“A competition that invites emerging architects to propose a building project for the courtyard of P.S.1 in Long Island City, Queens. The objective of the Young Architects Program is to identify and provide an outlet for emerging young talent in architecture, an ongoing mission of both MoMA and P.S.1. This year, five finalists were selected and instructed to transform P.S.1’s outdoor courtyard with the allotted project budget of $60,000″
medical appliance
Dr. Paul Sandhu contacted S/U/M to design and fabricate a medical appliance prototype to aid in a “tele-medicine” network he is currently developing to connect separate offices using high-bandwidth connections. Using hand sketches from the physician along with gaining an understanding of the background digital technologies in use, the appliance was 3d-modeled to be tested virtually, tweaked, and then produced full scale in a matter of weeks.
