Faculty: Negar Kalantar
tranSTUDIO | Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication is an interdisciplinary and innovative design laboratory at CCA. tranSTUDIO 2021 is partially supported by an Autodesk Technology Center Grant with support of the Autodesk Residency Program at the San Francisco Technology Center. tranSTUDIO 2021 focuses on Adaptable Design/Space through two design research projects.
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This research is conducted under tranSTUDIO | Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication (2020 ) and looks at how to design a three-dimensional structure out of a two-dimensional surface. The surface/volume also interacts with light by the specific method of fabrication. The constraints of the Ultimaker 3D printer required pieces to be aggregated together. Printing on a flexible material adds rigidity to specific locations which creates a 3D shape.
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This research is conducted under tranSTUDIO | Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication (2019 ) with a focus on designing 3D printed textiles that can be flexible and rigid at the same time.
Read MoreCore Faculty: Negar Kalantar
tranSTUDIO | Adaptive Thought, Design, and Fabrication (Materiality and Space 4) is an interdisciplinary and innovative design laboratory at CCA. tranSTUDIO 2019 is partially funded by Autodesk Technology Center Grant and was in collaboration with Autodesk Technology Center in San Francisco.
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Student: Jiries Alali
Faculty: Negar Kalantar + Alireza Borhani
Alali’s research, “Casting on a Dump” focuses on finding accessible, low-tech fabrication methodologies that allow for constructing parametrically designed non-standard modular cast panels”, as presented in the Abstract. Freeform concrete geometry currently relies upon expensive fabrication processes so introducing sand, an abundant mixture, produces more benefits. This easily formed, reusable zero-waste formwork is also paired with parametricism which creates a variety of non-standard panels. This design can benefit less-developed areas where climate, resources, and economy align with the main principles of this research.
Core Faculty: Negar Kalantar + Alireza Borhani
Embedded Intelligence, an advanced Digital Craft studio, considers the intelligence embedded in tools and materials through the development of design systems that link the intrinsic capabilities embedded in tools with the inherent properties of materials in a series of projects that explore nested fabrication methods.
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Core Faculty: Jason Kelly Johnson + Carlos Sabogal
Date: Spring 2021
“The dream recedes, but leaves a residue.” ― William Gibson, Virtual Light (The Bridge Trilogy) “The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.” ― John Lubbock, Peace and Happiness
BRIEF
The studio explores speculative futures for the western section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Similar to the recently replaced eastern section, the western bridge will soon become obsolete. Instead of tearing it down, the studio explores the reuse of the bridge’s superstructure as a social, cultural, and ecological catalyst for the region.
PRECEDENT
Bridges have a long history in civilization. The Inca culture constructed long-span rope suspension bridges that could be installed in a matter of days. They considered bridges more important than building massive stone structures, in some cases, could take decades to build. Their long-span fiber suspension bridges connected 25,000 miles of road (The Inca road system - Qhapaq Ñan “beautiful road”) and were longer than those of the Roman Empire. Although these bridges had to be regularly maintained, the practice became an essential ritual to their civilization.
INCENTIVE
The Sanctuary studio radically rethinks how the Bay Bridge could be re-utilized in the future.
Could the bridge become more than an elevated highway? Could it be a sanctuary or refuge for people, plants or animals? Could it become a public space, a place that bridges communities, inspires awe, ritual or meaning?
STRUCTURE
The studio will begin by exploring the introduction of hybrid public programs to the bridge’s superstructure: parks, museums, community spaces, edible gardens, shared spaces for living, working, farming, collaborating and playing. Second, the studio will develop ways for the bridge to harness energy from the sun and wind, collect water, utilize a renewable material palette, and systems that will work in cadence with natural ecosystems. Third, the studio will explore how the bridge might continue to weave the Bay Area together through emerging modes of public transportation and personal mobility.
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
How can a shift in thinking about transportation infrastructure, from mono-functional corridors to diverse, layered, heterogeneous spaces, help make the city more liveable and active? What are the new possibilities for integrating non-traditional urban design, art, technology, ecology, architecture, landscape, experimental modes of participation and collaboration, inclusion and public discourse? What emerges if we expand the definition of what public space is, where it can be, and who it might serve? After surviving a year marked by social isolation, division and inequality, how can visions for the new Bay Bridge suggest a way forward for the city, region and civilization itself?
APPROACH
The studio will utilize advanced computation design, visualization and representation tools. As a method of exploring and iterating through many possible futures, we will emphasize the use of parametric modeling and simulation softwares, alongside emerging augmented reality tools. A hybrid studio component will allow students to physically engage CCA’s digital fabrication tools.
“Empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” ― Winston Churchill
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.” ― William Gibson
Event: Architecture Division Pop-Up Exhibition
Space 37 at San Francisco Ferry Building, May 24- June 3, 2021
Students: Mason Denton, RJ Hafiz, Hsiao Chun Hou, Jung Yung Kim, Maryam Liaghatjoo, Hsuan Fu Liu, Leonel Miranda, David Rico-Gomez, Ashley Rodriguez, Eve Tobey
Faculty: Jason Kelly Johnson
This advanced architecture studio explores using light-weight constructions, digital projection technologies, light and sound to activate under-utilized spaces associated with transportation infrastructure.
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This advanced architecture studio explores the architectural detail as a locus for reconsidering contemporary domesticity in the context of new technologies of design, fabrication, and assembly.
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This seminar explores new strategies of contemporary ornamentation made possible by emerging technologies of computational design and digital fabrication.
Read MoreCurators: Adam Marcus & Andrew Kudless
Emerging technologies of design and production have opened up new ways to engage with traditional practices of architectural drawing. The twenty-two experimental drawings commissioned for this exhibition explore the impact of such technologies on the relationship between code and drawing: how rules and constraints inform the ways architects document, analyze, represent, and design the built environment.
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Read MoreFaculty: Adam Marcus, Margaret Ikeda, Evan Jones
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