Fabrication Labs

Graduate and undergraduate students use the School’s fabrication labs in support of studio and course work assignments, as well as for independent projects.  They include fully equipped facilities for building models and prototypes, fabricating furniture, and exploring building systems.  Students work with a wide variety of materials, including wood and wood products, plaster, concrete, and metals.  Beyond the normal fabricating equipment and tools usually found in wood and metal shops, the School’s equipment includes a vertical mill, a metal lathe, laser cutters, a waterjet cutter, three-axis CNC mills, a five-axis robotic-arm CNC mill with a nine-foot reach, a digitally controlled foam cutter, and two plastic 3-D printers. Students with shop experience may apply to the director for positions as shop monitors.
  
All incoming students take the Summer Fabrication Labs Orientation Seminar during the week before classes begin.  This intensive exercise teaches students how to work safely in the shop while exposing them to a wide range of tools and processes.  Full-time faculty and student monitors are available to assist students with their projects.