Design studio + fabrication practice

Art, architecture and fabrication treated as one continuous act of design.

Working across scales, materials and disciplines — from architectural assemblies to prototypes, products and production.

The practice / 01

Areas of practice

Architectural art, collaborations in design and fabrication, and products developed for production.

El Cerrito del Norte public art installation — 01 / The practice
Architectural Arts

Commissioned art and spatial interventions for developers, institutions and the public realm.
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Skyrail guardrail design and fabrication — 02 / The practice
Collaboration

Design development, modeling, fabrication, and installation for architects, design studios, developers, and investors.
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KidRunner manufacturing and prototyping documentation — 03 / The practice
Products & Production

Prototyping, tooling, fabrication, and production coordination through local and offshore manufacturing networks.
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Ideas, materials, process / 02

Stories

Writing on design and methods of making.

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Civic Art: Reframing Presence

This project emerged at the friction point between neighborhood scale and metropolitan infrastructure. A seven-story mass pressed into a fabric…
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handrail geometry v2: 1:1 material study v1 — 02 / Stories Image 07
In-House Prototyping

Proximity matters. The right tools in the right place make design less about waiting and more about responding. When fabrication sits within…
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Documentation of Manufacturing: Adaptive Choreography — 03 / Stories Image 01
Manufacturing: Adaptive Choreography

S/U/M joined KidRunner when the concept existed as vision rather than system. The project demanded design development under constant…
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60 of the 6000 flat packed fresnel lenses — 04 / Stories Image 02
Offshore to Onshore

How a pandemic disruption reshaped — and ultimately expanded — the making of El Cerrito del Norte
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Manufacturing: Designed to Go Offshore

Before KidRunner went offshore, ten units were built by hand—onshore, in-house. Each one a test of geometry, material, and intent. These early…
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Five stories

The work / 03

Work

Project photograph: SOF (the sound of fog) — PortfolioImage 16 SOF (the sound of fog)

Sunlit reflective facade at El Cerrito del Norte with a passing train in motion — PortfolioImage 73 El Cerrito del Norte

PortfolioImage 01 civic art extension

PortfolioImage 03 Sculpted Wall

Project photograph: Chevron — PortfolioImage 01 Chevron

Project photograph: FB Benches — PortfolioImage 01 FB Benches

KidRunner prototype and fabrication development — Product developmentImage 03 KidRunner

van ness 5.jpg — PortfolioImage 05 Lobby Seating

Continuous reflective canopy at Madison Street underpass — Architectural artsImage 18 UNDERDOME

PortfolioImage 01 GV

Project photograph: Exhibit Design — PortfolioImage 01 Exhibit Design

PortfolioImage 10 Flow-Zone

Finished Woven interior architectural installation — Design + fabricationImage 03 Woven

PortfolioImage 14 Rapid Type

Before and after design development for Composite House — Collaborative productionImage 08 Composite House

Sensate typographic relief wall at SFMOMA — Material + exhibitionImage 01 Sensate

Completed full-scale FLUX installation — Installation + constructionImage 02 FLUX

Project photograph: Retail Wall — PortfolioImage 08 Retail Wall

Casting trials for DUCTAL ultra-high-performance concrete panels — Material experimentationImage 12 DUCTAL

Skyrail guardrail design and fabrication documentation — Architectural fabricationImage 13 Skyrail

PortfolioImage 01 Roka Akor

09_0119 Faulders 406 Miss-33.jpg — PortfolioImage 01 deform

Project photograph: baltimore public art — PortfolioImage 01 baltimore public art

PortfolioImage 01 blackbird

PortfolioImage 01 Leafscape

Built acoustic baffles within Christ the Light Cathedral — Architectural artsImage 08 Christ the Light

PortfolioImage 01 Mobile Counterspace

PortfolioImage 02 Specimen Lightbox

PortfolioImage 09 Writer's Pod

Built perforated architectural guardrail — Architectural fabricationImage 05 Topo Wall

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Material, process, observations / 04

Fragments

115 photographs / evolving archive

assemblies and process

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Nodelman — Caption to be added — 067 / Fragment
Nodelman
IMG_7532_DxO_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
IMG_7542_DxO_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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IMG_7543-2_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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IMG_7546_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
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IMG_7548_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
IMG_7549_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
IMG_7571_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010415_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010426_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010429_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010430_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010432_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010437_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010441_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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L1010442_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
L1010444_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
L1010445_DxO.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman
L1010495.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Nodelman — Caption to be added — 095 / Fragment
Nodelman
L1010496.jpg From SOF (the sound of fog)

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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 012 / Fragment
Kidrunner
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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 013 / Fragment
Kidrunner
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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 014 / Fragment
Kidrunner
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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 017 / Fragment
Kidrunner
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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 038 / Fragment
Kidrunner
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Kidrunner
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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 040 / Fragment
Kidrunner
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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 041 / Fragment
Kidrunner
DSCF0141_DxO.jpg From kidrunner

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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 042 / Fragment
Kidrunner
DSCF1419_DxO_DxO.jpg From kidrunner

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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 078 / Fragment
Kidrunner
Jan Beach, 10-04-18.jpg From kidrunner

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Kidrunner — Caption to be added — 082 / Fragment
Kidrunner
KR-breakdown.jpg From kidrunner

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FB Benches — An image from the production archive — 010 / Fragment
FB Benches

An image from the production archive
fb-benches--ind-10.jpg From FB Benches

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FB Benches — Caption to be added — 064 / Fragment
FB Benches
IMG_6761.jpg From FB Benches

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FB Benches — Caption to be added — 065 / Fragment
FB Benches
IMG_6763.jpg From FB Benches

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FB Benches
IMG_6765.jpg From FB Benches

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FB Benches — Caption to be added — 076 / Fragment
FB Benches
ind-11.jpg From FB Benches

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Chevron Wall — Caption to be added — 018 / Fragment
Chevron Wall
build101.jpg From Chevron

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Chevron Wall — Construction and installation in progress — 009 / Fragment
Chevron Wall

Construction and installation in progress
chevron-wall--const-6.jpg From Chevron

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Chevron Wall — Caption to be added — 020 / Fragment
Chevron Wall
const-1.jpg From Chevron

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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 107 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 108 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 109 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 110 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 111 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 112 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 113 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 114 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 115 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 116 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Wall Studies — Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls. — 117 / Fragment
Wall Studies

Moorish geometric relief studies for landscape retaining walls.
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Screen and surface — A detail from El Cerrito del Norte — 004 / Fragment
Screen and surface

A detail from El Cerrito del Norte
el-cerrito--screen-detail.jpg From El Cerrito Del Norte

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El Cerito Del Norte — Caption to be added — 097 / Fragment
El Cerito Del Norte
main.jpg From El Cerrito Del Norte

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Woven — Material, surface and interior construction — 007 / Fragment
Woven

Material, surface and interior construction
woven--IMG_1200.jpg From woven

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Handrail geometry — A 1:1 material study from Skyrail — 002 / Fragment
Handrail geometry

A 1:1 material study from Skyrail
skyrail--DSC_1992.jpg From skyrail

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Ductal — Caption to be added — 019 / Fragment
Ductal
Conc_B01.jpg From ductal

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Ductal — Caption to be added — 029 / Fragment
Ductal
DSC_4958.jpg From ductal

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Casting study — Concrete pouring and color trials — 001 / Fragment
Casting study

Concrete pouring and color trials
ductal--pour2COLOR.jpg From ductal

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Composite House — A moment from the design and fabrication process — 005 / Fragment
Composite House

A moment from the design and fabrication process
composite-house--IMG_1153.jpg From process negotiation

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Composite House — Caption to be added — 096 / Fragment
Composite House
lift1.jpg From process negotiation

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Form matrix — A diagram from Rapid Type's design investigations — 008 / Fragment
Form matrix

A diagram from Rapid Type's design investigations
rapid-type--form-matrix.png From rapid-type

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Topo Wall — A close view of an architectural surface — 006 / Fragment
Topo Wall

A close view of an architectural surface
topo-wall--IMG_0374.jpg From topo wall

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Sensate — Caption to be added — 015 / Fragment
Sensate
3.jpg From sensate: bodies and design

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Sensate — Caption to be added — 103 / Fragment
Sensate
sensate2-resize.jpg From sensate: bodies and design

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Blackbird — Caption to be added — 031 / Fragment
Blackbird
DSC_6267.jpg From blackbird

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Blackbird — Caption to be added — 032 / Fragment
Blackbird
DSC_6277.jpg From blackbird

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Baltimore — Caption to be added — 102 / Fragment
Baltimore
primary3.jpg From baltimore public art

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Flux — Caption to be added — 016 / Fragment
Flux
9_deform.jpg From FLUX

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Flux — Caption to be added — 104 / Fragment
Flux
tabs01.jpg From FLUX

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Specimen Lightbox — An image from the prototyping sequence — 003 / Fragment
Specimen Lightbox

An image from the prototyping sequence
viral-wall--DSC3185_resize.jpg From specimen-lightbox

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Writers Pod — Caption to be added — 022 / Fragment
Writers Pod
craned.jpg From writer's pod

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Writers Pod — Caption to be added — 033 / Fragment
Writers Pod
DSC_6437.jpg From writer's pod

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Writers Pod
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Writers Pod
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Writers Pod
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Writers Pod — Caption to be added — 077 / Fragment
Writers Pod
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Writers Pod
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Studio fragment — Caption to be added — 046 / Fragment
Studio fragment
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