In late 2020, through a competitive RFP process, ARCADIA designworks was selected by the Town of Millinocket to design and engineer a new airport terminal building to replace their outdated 1950’s fixed-base operation (FBO) building. ARCADIA teamed up with FAA consultants Airport Planning & Management and McFarland Johnson both in New Hampshire, and engineers with Haley Ward in Bangor. Through a grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission, (NBRC) Ad’s team is now working on the construction documents. Planned start of construction 2024.

The adjacent model images depict a new terminal building with event space, kitchen, restrooms, lobby, pilots planning area, community collaboration room, offices for the airport manager and an assistant, as well as leasable spaces for revenue generation. Model and rendering assistance provided by Derek Smythe.

Millinocket Memorial Library

Millinocket, Maine

Often the story behind the making of a building is more meaningful than the creativity expressed by its architecture. ARCADIA's principal architect Patric Santerre was recently honored by the library's Board of Directors with the commission to redesign the building, one that he frequented regularly when growing up in Millinocket. Whether coincidence or fate, Patric's first architectural intern position in 1984 was with the architecture firm Wadsworth Boston in Portland, Maine, the original architects and engineers who designed the library building in 1963.

General Contractor for the Renovation: Nickerson & O’Day

Night Photograph by Ross Knowlton

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Millinocket, Maine

Noted in 2008 by AIA judges as a "huge signpost for a small community," the Millinocket Bathhouse project is a success for young and old since opening day, and an excellent example of community investment in youth for a better future.

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The Baker Company - Powder Coating, Shipping & Receiving Building

ARCADIA designworks assisted the Baker Company, a leading manufacturer of containment cabinets for medical laboratories both in the United States and Europe, in the design of their new 10,0000 square foot Powder-Coating, Shipping and Receiving pre-engineered metal building. With the implementation of automated powder coating machinery, Baker was able to both increase productivity and repurpose the former powder coating factory space.

Construction was completed in 2019 by TPD Construction.

Ad’s team has also assisted with the design a new employee entrance, cafeteria and conference room, and is in the early stages of design for a new factory administration building, all part of Baker’s long term master plan to increase manufacturing capacity, upgrade and increase administrative office spaces, and provide greater amenities to factory employees.

You can read more about this project, here.

ARCADIA designworks was founded by architect-industrial designer Patric Santerre and planner-designer Celeste Bard in 2005.

ARCADIA provides a variety of planning and design services, including challenge-based creative thinking services to corporations, organizations, and individuals who require services involving land, buildings and manufactured consumer goods.

On a daily basis, Patric, Celeste, and their research/design staff, as well as engineering/science consultants can be found working on plans for a multi-million dollar building or directing the development of a 3D printed model of a new product destined for manufacturing and commercial distribution.  

Patric and Celeste's combined experience of planning, architecture and industrial design has enhanced their ability to look beyond conventional design solutions to progressive, smarter approaches for designing buildings and products respective of client's needs and budget, and for the sustained health of our planet.

Product design specialties: Outdoor gear, building components, pet products, housewares, furniture, filtration products, packaging, and graphic instructional installations.

Architecture and planning: Municipal, industrial, commercial/retail, educational, and residential buildings.

You can learn more about ARCADIA’s portfolio by visiting our

Industrial Design Page 

Architecture Page

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Portland, Maine

Entrepreneur Tony Kieffer and partner James Arn are utilizing the expertise of ARCADIA  designwork’s combined architectural and industrial design experience for the design and document production of their innovative Grow Boxes with a pultruded fiberglass structure manufactured in China. Components are transported in metal shipping containers that are cleverly integrated and used as rooms in the overall building complex greatly minimizing onsite construction waste. Projects currently in either design, fabrication or construction are located in Hawaii, Maine, and Michigan.

dooloop is an accessory dog product by inventor Elizabeth Herriman, owner of Houndswag, a new innovative dog products company in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

Herriman came to ARCADIA designworks with a rough, handcrafted prototype which ARCADIA’s designers transformed into a parametric model using SolidWorks software. The digital model was then converted into an stereolithography (STL) file enabling a series of 3D printed prototypes to be made for proof-of-concept and design refinements.

Once a final design was approved, ARCADIA connected Houndswag with G&G Products an injection molder in Kennebunk, Maine, and Designlab in Millinocket, Maine who respectively assisted with manufacture and graphics for the packaging.

You can read more about this project, here.

Positioned to assist clients such as product manufacturers, ARCADIA designed a metal hardware solution called the ModCast side latch, for Duratherm Windows, a division of Pella.

This product added a dependable item to Duratherm's growing and modern line of wood windows. 

ARCADIA designed the ModCast side latch to follow a geometry of two parallel rectangles: a mounting plate and finger paddle.

In addition to achieving Duratherm's goal of producing a stronger latch pawl, ARCADIA designers concealed the mounting plate fasteners and created for the end-user, a comfortable finger-paddle with a tactile sculpted underside-node discovered when the user engages the latch.

The first manufacturing run was produced with stainless steel by New England Castings of Standish, Maine.

You can read more about this project, here.

The Teele Hair Products Company engaged ARCADIA designworks to assist them in the design and development of a four 10 oz. quadrant bowl used by hair stylist for mixing multiple color formulas. Working from hand drawings, ARCADIA’s industrial design team worked closely with Yvonne Teele in refining various design features that both improved the overall function and resulted in material cost savings.

ARCADIA also assisted in producing patent drawings and connecting the Teele Hair Products Company with G&G Products an injection molder in Kennebunk, Maine.

More information is available at Teelhairproducts.com.  

Entrepreneur and chef Peter Murphy came to ARCADIA designworks asking if the firm could help him fulfill a “life dream."

The challenge: design a mobile food cart Murphy could tow behind an electric bicycle.

Enter Rebel Cheesesteaks’ food cart, designed collaboratively with ARCADIA, Murphy, William Bruce, metal fabricator of Tunnelwerks, and seamstress Giselle Larios of Atelier Stitch. The team completed the food cart in time for the start of summer 2019 for Murphy to begin selling cheesesteak sandwiches from his new cart in Portland, Maine.