Facade Systems

Visioneering the Future of Urban Landscapes

Transforming the mundane into expressive functional art.

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Performance Materials

Enduring Warmth

Aluminum fused with real nano wood layer provides material contrast, durability, and embedded features in an advanced eco-friendly composite.

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Spacial Branding

Expressing Your
Brand with Depth

Manifest your brand identity with dimensional structure and material layering.

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Surfacescapes

Dynamic Surfaces

Exterior and interior, vertical and horizontal, creating multi-material iconic expressions that inspire.

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Opolis exists at the intersection of architecture, design, engineering and manufacturing. In collaboration with our global partners, we realize the visionary environments of the world’s top architects, designers and cultural creatives.

Together we build a more inspiring future.
Our collective experience spans iconic building facades, dynamic ceiling systems, and technical glass enclosures to LED lighting, public furniture and environmental spaces. With a foundation in leading edge product development and innovation across consumer, technology, medical and industrial sectors, Opolis brings a multi-industry, cross-fertilization, and collaborative approach to the built environment. We provide inspiration, design assistance and work closely with creatives, builders and our manufacturing partners to ensure that the design intent is maintained and balanced with the reality of project budgets, building codes, safety requirements, and timelines.
Our Partners

Kasso has specialized in the metal working industry since 1975 with extensive experience in expanded mesh metal, perforated panel and laser pattern cut panel production, for double skin facades, suspended ceiling, sun louvre and construction elements applications.

Technowood, provides a game-changing, environmentally-centric and life-time guaranteed range of real natural wood-laminated aluminum extrusions reducing the consumption of solid wood combined with the functionality of internal engineering features of extrusions.

PANELEX is a laminate manufactured from cellulose fibers impregnated with thermosetting resins, subjecting it to high pressures and temperatures. During the process, the resins are cured and the material is compacted into a monolithic plate that becomes inert. This provides the material with excellent physical, mechanical and structural properties that make it a high performance material.

AKPA provides the highest quality aluminum billet, aluminium profile extrusion, anodizing, powder coating, and aluminium composite panel manufacturing.

Reflection Window+Wall is a national architectural building enclosure company specializing in the engineering, pre-construction, and the project management of façade construction. RWW's patented systems are manufactured with the flexibility to satisfy the creative features of designers, developers and architects. It's product range includes structurally glazed window wall, punched opening window, curtain wall or façade component materials as well as unitized and captured curtainwall systems, railings, shutters and storefronts.

MNML is a 360° product realization, brand incubation and innovation agency. An agile team of diversely skilled designers, strategists, product developers and engineers working together to create meaningful and sustainable solutions across technology, consumer, contract furniture, lighting, and environmental design industries. Collaborating closely with early stage ventures and Fortune 500 companies alike, MNML creates transformative solutions that amplify our partner’s impact and value. 

Architecture

Student Center Murat Karamanci

Expanded metal mesh panels mounted into a suspended diagrid frame over corrugated metal base layer.

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Meet the Founders

We have a team of award-winning, globally recognized designers, technicians and build experts.

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Chief Creative Officer

Scott Wilson

Chief Operations Officer

Magdiel Guillemi

Manager

Shanna Orn

Designer

Bertrand Bergstrom

Account Director

Destini Hauck

In Development

The JW Marriott Tampa Water Street is one of many projects currently utilizing Technowood facades and paneling. This gallery shows behind the scenes site images that is due to be complete late in 2020. Click on image to view.

Let's Chat

We are always interested in discussing exciting projects with like-minded creators. Let's grab a socially distanced coffee.

Address

Opolis Systems LLC
939 W Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60607
USA

Looking for a job?

Opolis is a collective of craftsmen that operates under the creative direction of Scott Wilson.

Interior Designer

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Job Description

The candidate will have both good design and technical credentials, a, colleagues, suppliers and statutory bodies ensuring a broad variety of work on a daily basis. While initially reporting to a team leader, the candidate’s long-term goal should be to take ownership of an increasing number and complexity of projects to develop themselves in to a well-rounded architect and key member of the studio.

Key responsibilities:
  • assist lead architects in projects currently on site
  • assist in preparing tender packages for projects currently at planning and design development stage
  • supporting the new business team in the preparation and coordination of bids and proposals
  • manipulating text, graphics and images – type setting etc.
  • altering images including graphs and drawings to be used in presentation material
  • assisting to maintain the database of project-related material
  • creating presentations to company standards
Skills and experience:
  • highly computer literate with solid experience of using the full Adobe Suite, Vectorworks and SketchUp
  • exceptional skills and experience in the preparation of high-quality  packages, documents and graphics

Architects/architectural assistants

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Job Description

The candidate will have both good design and technical credentials, a, colleagues, suppliers and statutory bodies ensuring a broad variety of work on a daily basis. While initially reporting to a team leader, the candidate’s long-term goal should be to take ownership of an increasing number and complexity of projects to develop themselves in to a well-rounded architect and key member of the studio.

Key responsibilities:
  • assist lead architects in projects currently on site
  • assist in preparing tender packages for projects currently at planning and design development stage
  • supporting the new business team in the preparation and coordination of bids and proposals
  • manipulating text, graphics and images – type setting etc.
  • altering images including graphs and drawings to be used in presentation material
  • assisting to maintain the database of project-related material
  • creating presentations to company standards
Skills and experience:
  • highly computer literate with solid experience of using the full Adobe Suite, Vectorworks and SketchUp
  • exceptional skills and experience in the preparation of high-quality  packages, documents and graphics

Residential associate architect

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Job Description

The candidate will have both good design and technical credentials, a, colleagues, suppliers and statutory bodies ensuring a broad variety of work on a daily basis. While initially reporting to a team leader, the candidate’s long-term goal should be to take ownership of an increasing number and complexity of projects to develop themselves in to a well-rounded architect and key member of the studio.

Key responsibilities:
  • assist lead architects in projects currently on site
  • assist in preparing tender packages for projects currently at planning and design development stage
  • supporting the new business team in the preparation and coordination of bids and proposals
  • manipulating text, graphics and images – type setting etc.
  • altering images including graphs and drawings to be used in presentation material
  • assisting to maintain the database of project-related material
  • creating presentations to company standards
Skills and experience:
  • highly computer literate with solid experience of using the full Adobe Suite, Vectorworks and SketchUp
  • exceptional skills and experience in the preparation of high-quality  packages, documents and graphics

We’re always open for new talent send a mail to jobs@opolis.co