ARCADIA designworks TEAM
Patric Santerre
Patric is a multifaceted architect and industrial designer who has creatively built his company around a progressive mindset that buildings for people should be designed using the efficiency of materials and processes similar to the manufacture of products. It’s an approach that delves into the inherent needs of the user and the value of what’s existing through creative reuse and innovative spatial solutions. He is particularly interested in utilizing manufacturing scrap material for new products and using bio-friendly materials. His goals are to preserve and sustain, optimize existing, and when making new do it with future generations in mind.
Patric received a Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he also taught design, drawing, and modeling as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He worked with numerous architecture and engineering firms including Wadsworth & Boston, Portland, Maine, IDC in Silver Spring, Maryland, and OA in Yarmouth, Maine, before starting his own company in 2015.
Celeste Bard
Celeste is an accomplished designer and planner who oversees interior design services and industrial soft-goods product development. Her artful designs are based on years of experience working with the material and finish color, texture, and patterns for commercial and municipal interiors. Celeste particularly enjoys exploring new economic and design opportunities that integrate human-centered design, building rehabilitation, material reuse and when possible rethinking how we use space and products.
Celeste received her design training at Parsons School of Design in New York City and at the Central School of Art in London before returning to Maine. She earned a Master’s degree in Community Planning and Development from the Muskie School at the University of Southern Maine. She enjoys collaborating with clients and skillfully balancing beautiful designs with pragmatism, sustainability, and when appropriate community engagement.
John Finn
John’s conceptual and technical design experience was honed over thirty years having worked for manufacturing and architectural companies both on the East and West coast of the United States. John possesses a thorough understanding of both the design and construction aspects for building architecture. His wealth of knowledge in construction methodology enables him to translate architectural visions into tangible structures with a proficiency that extends to sustainable and energy-efficient buildings and designs.
John received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and is living in a house that he and his wife designed and constructed themselves.
Luciana Santerre
Luciana supports Ad’s design and project development, providing assistance through her work in programming, concept drawings, parametric modeling, communications and marketing material for Ad’s architecture and industrial design projects.
Luciana holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Communications Management from The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. During her academic journey, she co-designed a minor program for industrial design students, focusing on the principles of regenerative development and addressing regional sustainability challenges. Drawing from her understanding of these concepts, Luciana applies her experience gained from international design settings to her work with ARCADIA.