S/U/M’s approach to working with material manufacturers is to synthesize the design that has already been built into a material, with an overlay of design that configures that material into products and commodities within sustainable modes of production.
Our goal is to help material manufactures unlock the capabilities of their materials, through design and workflow methods alongside current social/cultural awareness of design and materiality.
Mitsubishi I – office space
ALPOLIC Materials, a division of Mitsubishi Plastics Composites America, Inc, has a building industry product that also lends itself intrinsically to methods of digital (CNC) fabrication. The product...
Mitsubishi II – RapidType
Working off the momentum generated during production of MITSUBISH I – office space, along with the desire push the capabilities of the material and possible application, prompted a continuation...
Lafarge Industries’ DUCTAL
A joint endeavor between SUM/OTA+, Lafarge Industries and Concreteworks.
SUM/OTA+ was tasked with the challenge to showcase the exciting design potentials within Lafarge Industries’ new material...