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Saint Barnabas Medical Center — Surface Print feature walls
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Saint Barnabas Medical Center

Thermoformed Surface Print™ wall panels that read as moving water at Saint Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey — solid surface printed, then shaped with Complex Thermoforming™.

INFO

SURFACELAB
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surfaceLAB is a Kirkland, Washington fabricator working with architects, designers, and contractors on the features that define a space: illuminated ceilings, sculpted walls, printed surfaces, Carved Panels. From sketch through installation — design assistance, CAD, 3D mock-ups, fabrication, and install. Work delivered across seven sectors of the built environment since 2014.

About the LAB

WORK — BY SECTOR

ALL SECTORS
  1. SECTOR #1 Corporate + Commercial 4 viewable — active — not-pictured
  2. SECTOR #2 Health + Wellness 5 viewable — active — not-pictured
  3. SECTOR #3 Civic + Cultural 2 viewable — active — not-pictured
  4. SECTOR #4 Hospitality 3 viewable — active — not-pictured
  5. SECTOR #5 Residential + Multi-Family 2 viewable — active — not-pictured
  6. SECTOR #6 Retail 2 viewable — active — not-pictured
  7. SECTOR #7 Entertainment 1 viewable — active — not-pictured
HIGHLIGHTED WORK SELECTED PROJECTS

TECHNOLOGIES — THE TECHNIQUES

10 SPECIMENS
D.1 Surface Print

Using full-bleed, high-resolution graphics, we print large format images up to 6′ × 12′ in size. We can also thermoform the printed surface to create curved and contoured products.

D.2 Complex Thermoforming

By heating solid surface material and then cooling it over a mold, we can create complex and curved surfaces for furnishings, wall panels, and more.

D.3 Dye Sublimation

We create an ink transfer plate of your digital graphic and then use heat and pressure to force the image directly into the solid surface substrate.

D.4 Illuminated Features

We create lighting designs, using curved and patterned surfaces to mold lighting into complex pathways and patterns.

D.5 Backlight Images

Transform a photograph or image into a 3D photorealistic, illuminated, grayscale panel.

D.6 Colorfill Dry-Erase

Color-filled dry-erase finish for collaborative environments. Writable surfaces in any architectural form.

D.7 Sculpted Relief

We use advanced CNC programming and fabrication to bring dimensions to flat surfaces.

D.8 Carved Panels

We use CNC programming to carve the pattern into a solid surface and other materials to add visual interest and detail.

D.9 Dot Matrix

Utilizing imaging or patterns provided to us, we perforate materials with holes of various sizes to create grayscale imaging and patterns. No size limitations.

D.10 Lab Glass

A non-sacrificial, hydrophobic clear treatment that repels graffiti, dirt, and stains, and protects printed surfaces from UV degradation.

LAB

FOUNDED 2014 · KIRKLAND, WA
surfaceLAB at work

Unexpected materials and technologies, for features people remember.

surfaceLAB was founded by Rick Wing in 2014, when materials had outgrown the industry’s imagination. Ten proprietary technologies later, that’s still the work: pushing solid surface, wood, metal, and acrylic past what they were made for, and fabricating the features designers didn’t know they could specify.

2014established
10proprietary technologies
30+years of advanced materials experience

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Talk to us about your project, and put 30+ years of advanced materials experience on your side.

Surfaces, ceilings, walls, and panels that bend, light, print, sublimate, and carve. Talk to us about the architectural detail you’d specify if you knew it could be built.

hello@surfacelab.us 1-206-200-6228