The visible surfaces of materials work to organize and structure interaction, perception and performance. In MS4 students develop material prototypes using hybrid processes, manual shop work and digital fabrication. Topics and techniques in contemporary digital fabrication are presented to students through a series of readings, short exercises, and precedent studies. Students are trained in the use of rapid prototyping, laser-cutting, and CNC milling. Students will work individually on a series of small fabricated models exploring the craft of digital fabrication through close attention to material properties and effects, machine precision, structure, and geometric logic.SECTION DESCRIPTIONtranSTUDIO | Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication (Materiality and Space 4)  is an interdisciplinary and innovative design studio at CCA.
Architecture must embrace adaptability and flexibility to sustain effectively, and to respond to the increasing demands for change, and to create a cooperative relationship between the building and its users. Adaptability helps to achieve a safe, healthy, responsive, and environmentally friendly building, and thus to ensure long-term use and value.
This studio will focus on Adaptable Design/Space. The Studio pursues (1) methods for exploring digital platforms within the context of innovative transformable building space that demonstrates morphological changes; (2) an interdisciplinary approach that encourages students to engage with emerging materials and tools for adaptable architecture and design; (3) the inherent properties of materials in exploring the development of transformable space; (4) the principles, theories, and applications that govern creative thought, from the formation of motion through the creation of a physical environment.
For more information about tranSTUDIO, please visit transtudio2021,  tranSTUDIO2020, tranSTUDIO2019, and thetranSTUIDO or contact her at kalantar@ca.edu.

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