D5 Design & Metal Fabrication LLC

D5 Design & Metal Fabrication LLC D5 is Chicago's full service design & metal fabricators, specializing in all Division 5 Metals. Whether it be Commercial, Residential or Government.

Steel stairs and railings
07/31/2026

Steel stairs and railings

Some of the benches
07/22/2026

Some of the benches

Powder coated steel
07/16/2026

Powder coated steel

Benches
06/29/2026

Benches

Leticia Pardo Carcasa (109 E. Ontario St.)Apr 1GardenCarcasa (109 E. Ontario St.), 2026Through a material reconfiguratio...
06/23/2026

Leticia Pardo Carcasa (109 E. Ontario St.)
Apr 1
Garden
Carcasa (109 E. Ontario St.), 2026

Through a material reconfiguration of the Mies van der Rohe stair and walls from The Arts Club building, the installation foregrounds aspects of architectural production often minimized or rendered invisible within dominant historical narratives. Originally produced for The Arts Club’s former location, the stair was salvaged from demolition and reinstalled in the institution’s current building, becoming an object in the collection.

Translating the stair into exposed rebar—a material typically embedded within built infrastructure and intentionally concealed—brings construction to the surface. The seemingly unfinished structure draws attention to manual labor carried out by immigrant workers who have sustained the U.S. building industry. Silicone casts taken from travertine slabs surrounding the staircase function as reversed impressions of the stone, revealing internal veining and voids as surface textures. Together, the rebar structure and silicone casts establish a dialogue between structure and body, visibility and concealment, and value and labor.

Reducing architecture to bone and skin, Carcasa (109 E. Ontario St.) approaches modernism as a system whose authority and visibility were produced through selective recognition. In doing so, it positions architecture as a cultural record of collective making shaped by social relations.



This site-specific installation involved production assistance by Dishan Rahman, and metal fabrication by Alejandro Castellanos, Ernesto Garcia, Jair Martínez, José Martinez, Ricardo Martínez, Danilo Medina, Ernesto Medina, Gonzalo Medina, Nelson Ramírez, Francisco Rivadeneyra, Heriberto Valdez, Daniel Valencia, Randi Vigueras, D5 Design and Metal Fabrication

Stainless Steel benches at John Lewis plaza OPC
06/17/2026

Stainless Steel benches at John Lewis plaza OPC

Steel railings
06/12/2026

Steel railings

Playground railings at OPC
06/06/2026

Playground railings at OPC

Custom Signage at La Placita Logan Square Chicago.
05/04/2026

Custom Signage at La Placita Logan Square Chicago.


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