leafscape
Our proposal was selected as the winning entry for a public arts competition sponsored by the Alameda Arts commission for the new Castro Valley public library.
The inspiration for this permanent installation borrows from botanical growth patterns in nature. The installation is comprised of over 600 modulating “leaf” units that find structure in pairs. The material used in this installation are sheets of flexible polypropylene. Each side of the leaf pairs are asymmetrical in geometry that cause the leaves to undulate in particular patterns. Collectively, the leaf surface functions as a light collector: mixing natural and artificial light between its folds.
It is intended that the color palate of the installation be easily interchanged.
Project team:
John Heida, Mahsa Vanaki, Raphael Stargrove, Will Warne,
Fabrication team: Marc Mintsioulis, Charlotte Hofstetter
SFMOMA:SENSATE
SENSATE: BODIES AND DESIGN-
design / fabrication of the relief wall graphic for the exhibition.
“From August 7, 2009 through November 8, 2009, SFMOMA will present Sensate: Bodies and Design, an exhibition of works by architects, designers and artists that represent new ways of thinking about the entanglement of human bodies and the designed world. Mutant bodies, fictional bodies, animate architecture: these are among the show’s provocations as it offers evidence of a lively contemporary debate about what bodies are and how they might be mirrored and met by design..”
concrete Walls
panel prototypes using the high performance fiber reinforced concrete product DUCTAL.
Design: Kory Bieg - K Bieg Design, Andre Caradec -S/U/M
Concrete: Concreteworks
Currently on view along with other products from Concreteworks.
58 South Park
San Francisco CA 94107
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
deform house
Consisting of a major house renovation and a series of permanent installations, Thom Faulders of Faulders Studio asked S/U/M to process and fabricate the individually pieced ceiling patterns of the clients private gallery space.
3 years after completion of the gallery installation, Thom contacted S/U/M once again to produce the decking surface for an outdoor surface installation.
dwell magazine - “5 modern makers”
S/U/M is featured alongside Thom Faulders of Faulders studio
in the Dwell Issue : The Craft of Design-5 modern makers.
