Working beyond representation, what values are gained by full-scale making? While design tools in our discipline readily model ideas for translation into built form by others, many architects find ways to expand their creative agency by engaging directly at 1:1 scale. Think of this as a ‘proof of concept’ methodology: design is pursued via the application of one’s own labor, where unexpected consequences can be mined for new opportunities rather than as problematic failures. Recently, an influx of influential projects have been created by architects who apply their own efforts to fully realize experimental fabrications, perhaps best embodied by the New York MoMA PS1 Young Architects Shelter program.This will be a hybrid studio that meets on the CCA San Francisco campus back lot. Students will pursue design and making explorations at a variety of scales, prompting course participants to work in part as artists, inventors, visionaries, and designers.  Augmented by tours in the local architecture scene, interviews, and research, the Proof of Concept design studio will tap into alternative means of action in pursuit of architecture.

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