Futures of CCA
New workshops, classrooms, facilities, and community spaces will connect students and disciplines in a vibrant, state-of-the-art environment for art, design, and education.
CCA's Double Ground expansion will connect residence halls and buildings on campus. Rendering courtesy of Studio Gang.
Rooted in the Bay Area, building toward the future
CCA is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our campus expansion brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, adds new student housing and dining, and supports interdisciplinary learning and making like never before. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood, alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
The central resource hub on the lower level of Double Ground. Rendering courtesy of Studio Gang.
A long-term vision comes to fruition
With the addition of Double Ground, our multi-year plan becomes a reality. Classrooms and studios for every program are now located together in San Francisco, offering even more cross-over opportunities for the talented artists and designers to learn from faculty—and each other. Our students now live, learn, eat, study and relax on our residential campus, which includes two dorms, Founders Hall and Blattner Hall.
CCA's new Double Ground extends our main campus with an additional 82,305 square feet of space. New classrooms and studios with super-flexible interior spaces offer new opportunities for collaboration. What happens when industrial design meets painting? When an architect collaborates with a ceramicist? These are the kinds of collaborations students will encounter. Double Ground will offer students:
- Abundant shared green spaces
- A continuous indoor-outdoor environment
- Interactive maker yards
- Adaptable spaces to create
- New galleries for exhibitions
- A new lecture hall
- More opportunities for interdisciplinary learning
Double Ground’s top level features open courtyards and green space. Courtesy of Studio Gang and Kilograph.
Sustainability at the forefront
Designed by a team led by award-winning architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, the open, transparent design will connect our programs in exciting new ways. Built with sustainable features and amenities, the lower level of Double Ground includes shops, studios, and labs which open into shared maker yards. The upper level features a park-like atmosphere with green space and places to gather, adjacent to CCA's main campus building.
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Dec. 18, 2023
The future of Interior Design is looking brighter than ever 🤩 Congratulations to Anna Danilova and Sandra Lufan Yang from @cca_arch_div who recently won the LIT Lighting Design awards in the Architectural Lighting category.
💡✨ "Fluid Illumination - Exploring the Essence of Water through Architectural Lighting Design" by Anna Danilova (and #CCAFaculty Margo Majewska) won in Other Lighting Designs
💡✨ "Under The Sea" by Lufan Yang (and #CCAfaculty Margo Majewska) won in Interior Architectural Illumination / Visitor Experience & Museum Exhibition
Dec. 7, 2023
Recover ➡️ Restore ➡️ Rebuild ➡️ Students from @cca_arch_div and alum Tyler Pew (MArch Architecture 2012) helped Greenville, California envision a recovery from the 2021 Dixie Fire, the second largest wildfire in state history. This multi-year partnership offered inspiration to rebuild for resilience, longevity, and sustainability in rural communities devastated by the fire.
Go to cca.edu/newsroom to learn about the incredible solutions our students and faculty found to help reimagine life in Greenville.
📷: "For Us By Us. Greenville, CA" by Ahmad Alajmi (BArch Architecture 2023), Vishakh Hiren Surti (MArch Architecture 2023) , and Jacky Kuang (BArch Architecture 2022)
Dec. 1, 2023
Welcome, President David Howse! As his official tenure begins, scroll through to see President Howse meeting and greeting the CCA community during his first campus visit earlier this fall.
Wishing our new president a happy first day at CCA! 🎓
Nov. 29, 2023
✨ Artists on Artists ✨ Last month, we were thrilled to welcome Rashaad Newsome for a an artist lecture, classroom visit, and an exhibition of student responses to Newsome's work and its theoretical grounding in bell hook’s cultural theory. Using collage as a method and concept, @mfadesigncca and @ccaanimation students explored personal and collective identity. Swipe ➡️ to see what the students created.
Featured students: Biray Ozdol, Aashna Keswani, Rowan Limbach, Ian Storm Taylor, Elisabeth Cobb, Luyao Xu, Ramyatara Mullapudi, Arleth Vega
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