Fabrication + Materials
The College of Environmental Design’s cutting-edge maker spaces and resources — Fabrication Shop, Digital Fabrication Lab, and Materials Store — offer limitless opportunity for students to craft, model, and actualize their studio work.
Fabrication Shop
The 3,600-square-foot fabrication shop is housed in an open-plan space with soaring windows and abundant natural light. CED students use the shop for modeling of three-dimensional designs and features tools for working wood, metal, concrete, and other materials.
Digital Fabrication Lab
The Digital Fabrication Lab allows CED to bring the best digital facilities to our students and faculty. The 1,500-square-foot lab houses a variety of 2D and 3D digitally controlled equipment. The lab exclusively serves students enrolled and or taking courses in the College of Environmental Design.
Materials Store
The nonprofit CED Materials Store, established in 2014 as a partnership between the CED and the Educational Opportunity Program in the Division of Equity & Inclusion (EOP/DEI), provides affordable materials to CED students for use in the shop and lab.
- Materials Available
- Recycled and reused supplies at very low cost (cutting pads and knives, etc.)
- Solid Wood Lumber
- Plywood
- Plastics
- Metals
- Paper products
- CED branded merchandise
- Small tools and supplies
Purchases can be made with a PaperCut account ($1 minimum) or credit card.
Staff
The Digital Fabrication Lab was funded in part from a bequest from Professor Emeritus Vernon DeMars (BA 1931) and made possible by in-kind donations of design and construction expertise by alum Mark Cavagnero, of Mark Cavagnero Associates Architects, and Tom Mead, formerly of WebCor Builders.