civic art: reframing presence
Dazzlement at the interface between transportation, large scale construction and a small neighborhood vibe.
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.
civic art extension
A continuation of our El Cerrito del Norte commission, folded aluminum panels extend the building’s design language without imitation. Using the same fabrication logic, they provide durability and visual depth while preserving the singular impact of the main artwork.
exhibit design
Maker Faire installation for educational tech company SamLabs
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.
lobby seating
fabrication collaboration for a lobby bench in San Francisco
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.
FLUX: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape
A 100-foot parametric installation built by CCA faculty and students — interlocking ribs, adaptive scripts, and two weeks of organized flux.
organ baffles
Acoustically optimized baffles forming a structural cradle for the pipe organs at the Cathedral of Christ the Light.
retail wall
A retail wall system designed and fabricated by S/U/M for a small boutique
baltimore public art
Transforming a tunnel into a civic terrain of use and light.
offshore to onshore
A civic artwork built inside the very vessel meant to contain it. Covid closures forced a pivot offshore, where the rainscreen panels were flat-packed for shipping. Yet the design called for dimensionality — a bottle assembled inside a ship. Reflective Fresnel-like pieces were hand-folded in Grass Valley, while offshore crates delivered the flat system. In the building’s own basement, the work was staged, sequenced, and finally lifted into place.