Space Criteria: A Guide to the Guides
a. General Arts and Crafts
(1) Handcrafted Pottery and Ceramics
(a) Description. A comprehensive program includes
clay preparation, forming techniques, decorating, firing
procedures and glaze formulation. The process by which
a novice is familiarized with the techniques includes
demonstrations, lectures, graphic presentations and
practice.
(b) Space Allocation. See Table 7 - 4.
(c) Relationships. The office and tool issue room
should be near the general work area. Clay storage
should be near a service entrance. Kilns and glassblow-
ing furnaces are compatible and can be isolated together
preferably on exterior walls or outdoors where climate
permits.
Table 7 - 4 Space Allocation for Handcrafted Pottery
and Ceramics
Size (Gross SF) based on Military Population
Sub-Space
20,001 - 25,000
General Work Area
1,000
Kiln Room
200
200
Storage Area
Exterior Work Area
200
1,600
Total
Value is half the allocation for a similar interior space.
(2) Glassblowing
(a) Description. The basic process starts with the pro-
Table 7 - 5 Space Allocation for Glassblowing
duction of molten glass within a refractory container in a
Size (Gross SF) based on Military Population
furnace. Molten Glass can be made either by melting
glass or by fusing together the raw materials that form
Sub-Space
20,001 - 25,000
glass. The molten glass is then gathered on the tip of a
400
General Work Area
hollow-iron blow-pipe and is inflated, spun, tooled,
Storage Area
100
sheared and manipulated to the desired shape. While it
Exterior Work Area
100
is worked the glass is kept molten by a small furnace
called a "Glory Hole". The glass is finally tempered in an
600
Total
annealing oven.
Value is half the allocation for a similar interior space.
(b) Space Allocation. See Table 7 - 5.
Not recommended for interior space with reduced square
(c) Relationships. The glassblowing area should be
footage, especially in a CAC facility.
near the outdoor work areas for gas kilns and storage
areas. It requires a generous amount of space per par-
ticipant and is incompatible to include in the general arts
and crafts area of a combined facility.
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