process negotiation
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

process negotiation

Design services: Digital modeling, field templating, and fabrication across studio, factory, and site

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specimen-lightbox
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

specimen-lightbox

A luminous vitrine developed from a collection of glass virus sculptures, diffusing light through its cellular geometry

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organ baffles
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

organ baffles

Acoustically optimized baffles forming a structural cradle for the pipe organs at the Cathedral of Christ the Light.

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retail wall
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

retail wall

A retail wall system designed and fabricated by S/U/M for a small boutique

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GV
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

GV

Illusory graphic techniques translated into built form — a typographic identity re-cast as light, volume, and reflection.

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exhibit design
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

exhibit design

Maker Faire installation for educational tech company SamLabs

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sensate: bodies and design
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

sensate: bodies and design

Entry signage for the SFMoMA exhibition Sensate: Bodies and Design, the installation operates between tactility and legibility — a relief wall that reads through movement and light.

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collaboration: continuing the dialogue
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

collaboration: continuing the dialogue

We collaborate with architects, landscape designers, developers, private clients, and product teams to extend their capacity—from fabrication support to full design-build execution. Our role adapts to each project, embedding within existing workflows to maintain design fidelity, technical precision, and clear coordination from concept through construction

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skyrail
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

skyrail

Optically tuned guardrail merging digital patterning with manual craft—CNC to carving, algorithm to gesture

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lobby seating
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

lobby seating

fabrication collaboration for a lobby bench in San Francisco

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rapid-type
Andre Caradec Andre Caradec

rapid-type

The service economy needed architecture that could move fast. Prefabrication promised that future but never arrived. Instead, the food truck did. Rapid Type merges those trajectories—industrial precision re-cast as a mobile café, where fabrication meets immediacy and architecture learns to serve.

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flow-zone
public art, portfolio Andre Caradec public art, portfolio Andre Caradec

flow-zone

A 1,700-foot field of light beneath a bridge, Flow-Zone maps the invisible currents of the city. Two thousand green aluminum fins ripple across the underside of TriMet’s Orange Line overpass, turning traffic, wind, and light into a continuous motion field.

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collaboration: extending the logic
portfolio Andre Caradec portfolio Andre Caradec

collaboration: extending the logic

Rather than inserting a new object, the work extended the building’s own logic—where light paths became structural paths and textile filtration became architectural pattern. The intervention operated through continuity, not contrast: a method that joined languages rather than replacing them.

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