This course for Fall 2024 focuses on site specific design and fabrication of large scale public benches for CCA’s new campus extension. Massive Coast Redwood slabs reclaimed from CCA’s now closed Oakland Campus are the primary material. Through a process of site studies and research students will develop concepts, high resolution models, and working drawings of their designs. This course will be supported by Visiting Professors with expertise in realms of landscape architecture and large scale digital fabrication including Manual Labor, a multifaceted design/fabrication studio in Berkeley CA.
Students will explore the application of both standard and emerging technologies in the creation and manipulation of innovative new forms of functional sculpture. They will gain practical, hands-on experience and utilize historical and theoretical frameworks to meaningfully engage with site specificity. The course will cover tooling and techniques related to working with solid wood such as carving with hand and power tools, and basic wood joinery concepts. Design tools and techniques will include creative collaboration, iteration through modelmaking, and visual communication.
Project work will be collaborative in nature. Students should be comfortable working in a shop environment and have hands-on making experience, but are not required to have extensive woodworking skills. Note: Please inquire about prerequisite overrides.

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