san francisco arts commission

For the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery’s annual benefit and auction, local bay area designer Jordan Geiger of Ga-Ga contacted S/U/M to help produce a temporary event space that would create various types of zones in the gallery and the atrium spaces of San Francisco’s neoclassical War Veterans Memorial building. Defined only by light and lightweight materials, these zones were modulated by digitally milled thin plywood sheets, which in turn filtered projected light around the event for the bar, auctioneer, DJ, and other functions. The entire installation needed to be installed in 2 hours and taken down in 1 hour, so an inventive system of simple zip-ties held the panel system together, and once snipped, the panels can be flat packed and stored for future events.