S/U/M was started as a way to harness the collective energy of collaboration amongst like minded designers.
S/U/M works with designers in both collaborative and supporting rolls: from overall design strategy and development, to prototyping efforts, to helping with simple or complex fabrication endeavors.
Far from a production shop, the goal of S/U/M is to help create a seamless mode of combining ideas with their tectonic, physical equivalent as provocatively as possible with an integration of budget goals.
stair screen
A design and installation in collaboration with Schwartz and architecture of San Francisco.
Bernal Heights, San Francisco
“We collaborated with Andre Caradec of S/U/M on the design and fabrication of the unique guardrail. The pattern is the result of many considerations: a desire for the perforations...
FLUX eventspace
The FLUX installation, developed by a team of CCA faculty and students, explores the possibilities of parametric modeling and digital fabrication. Through the use of parametric modeling and software scripts, the installation design can be quickly updated to address new design criteria. From the thickness...
sky rail
From the architect Neal Schwartz “We worked with Andre Caradec of S/U/M to develop the guardrail installation of our Sky | House renovation. Beginning with the agenda to direct and control the perception of the viewer as they ascend and descend through the space (as well as the client’s fascination...
SFMOMA:SENSATE
SENSATE: BODIES AND DESIGN-design / fabrication of a relief wall ‘graphic’ embedded into the entry wall of the exhibition at SFMOMA
Part signage and part landscape, the effects of the installation move between content (typography) and abstract surface depending on the location of the viewer. ...
christ the light
In conjunction with SOM SF, S/U/M was tasked 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...
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...
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...
MoMA/PS1
NYC based architect and designer Lawrence Blough of Graftworks LLC contacted S/U/M to help develop an efficient and easy to assemble temporary plywood structural system for the MoMA/P.S.1‘s yearly summer event “warm up”.
the goal of the vaulted system would be to produce an array of...
SF 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 collaborate on a temporary event space that would create various types of zones in the gallery and the atrium spaces of San Francisco’s neoclassical...
