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.
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.
manufacturing: designed to go offshore
Each project begins onshore—where the act of making clarifies the language that will later travel.
in-house prototyping
prototyping at arms reach