Mobile Craft Module
Advanced Studio: Urban Prototype Mobility
Instructor: Adam Marcus
Team: Barry Atiabet, Keith Edwards, Joshua Evans, Tien Yi Hsieh, Ludmila Ilieva, Reynaldo Kambey, Thomas Monroy, Ryan Montgomery, Mark Nicholson, Chien Lien Pan, Murhaf Salameh, Adithi Satish
Spring 2015
Instructor: Adam Marcus
Team: Barry Atiabet, Keith Edwards, Joshua Evans, Tien Yi Hsieh, Ludmila Ilieva, Reynaldo Kambey, Thomas Monroy, Ryan Montgomery, Mark Nicholson, Chien Lien Pan, Murhaf Salameh, Adithi Satish
Spring 2015
Project Description
The CCA Mobile Craft Module, a team product of the prototyping Mobility Studio at California College of the Arts, proposes an architecture of deployable structures that can be reconfigured to serve a variety of functions. The twin modules can be arranged in multiple ways to facilitate exhibition space, even space and work space, and they nest together to become secure at night.
(The Mobile Craft Module was featured on ArchDaily as one of the best student projects worldwide.)
(The Mobile Craft Module was featured on ArchDaily as one of the best student projects worldwide.)
Throughout the Market Street Prototyping Festival, the Mobile Craft Modules host a series of events featuring work produced by CCA students and faculty. After the Festival, the Mobile Craft Modules will return to CCa to serve as mobile workstations on the Back Lot, the large outdoor maker space on campus. The intent is for the modules to provide an infrastructure for the construction of future design-build projects undertaken by students and faculty.
Process
Each module is open on one side, providing access to the modular shelving and work surfaces on the interior. The reconfigurable plug-in shelving system includes caps, which double as stools once they are removed from the module. The structural frame is fabricated from welded steel tube, with angle iron members welded to the corners to serve as protective edges for the cladding. The cladding is fabricated from western red cedar boards, each of which is cut to size. A robotically-cut pattern carved into the cedar boards consists of abstract shapes that merge together to spell "CCA" as one moves around the module.