Craft Campus Metal Sculpture Studio

Landfill Gas Applications: Landfill gas will be the primary fuel for the gas-fired crucible furnaces and gas-powered forges. The gas will also meet general heating and cooling requirements for the studio.

Suggestions and Needs for Metal Sculpture Studio: These notes represent a preliminary vision of the Craft Campus developed early in 2004

Interior

• Total area should be about 3,000 square feet
• 20 3-square foot student desks
• Rolling mill
• Hydraulic machinery
• Hammering room for hollow forms
• Excellent ventilation in casting, polishing and soldering areas

• Work spaces on either side of a central area 40 feet wide and 150 feet long with a 30 foot ceiling and skylights

• A gantry crane which rises to 25 feet high, meeting up in the back with the boom crane that is outside in the foundry area
• A mezzanine area on either side of the central area with gantry crane
• Fork lift
• Pallet jack

Side A Under Mezzanine on One Side of Central Area

• Wax area -- 300-400 square feet with air conditioning
• Plaster area -- 600 square feet 
• Invest ceramic shell area -- 600 square feet with burn-out kilns
• Patina area -- 100 square feet with excellent ventilation
• Painting area -- 100 square feet with excellent ventilation
• Tool storage -- 150 square feet
• Welding tool storage cage -- 100 square feet

Side B Under Mezzanine Area on Other Side of Central Area

• Fabrication area -- 3,000 square feet
• Dirty classroom -- 500 square feet
• Storage (can be open area) -- 200 square feet
• Clean up area with large drain with pea trap -- 700 square feet
• Janitorial space -- 75 square feet

Mezzanine Area overlooking Central area

• Two faculty offices
• Student storage space – 10x10 foot
• Big blank wall for drawings and hanging large wall pieces  

Under Roof at One End of Building and Central Area

• Sand-blasting area -- 100 square feet
• Two two-stage compressors in highly insulated room -- 50 square feet
• Non-ferrous foundry -- 30x40 foot
• Smithing/welding area -- 1,000 square feet
• Ten 10-foot work stations with anvils 
• Power hammers
• Compressor

Exterior

• Wood carving area -- 600 square feet
• Stone carving area -- 600 square feet
• Cupola
• Greenhouse filled with plants that use heavy metals as nutrients to use in safe disposal of waste 

Security

• Code Blue system

• Card operated security system

• Fencing to roof on exterior space

• Fencing with gates