The Cooper Union has unveiled its newly opened Art, Architecture, Construction, and Engineering (AACE) Lab, an interdisciplinary makerspace made possible in part by a $2 million grant from the New York-based IDC Foundation.
Located on the fourth floor of the Cooper Union’s historic, Fred A. Petersen-designed Foundation Building in the East Village, the state-of-the-art-facility is home to an eye-popping slew of advanced fabrication tech and digital tools including 3D printers, CNC routers, laser cutters, a vinyl cutter, a waterjet cutting machine, a vinyl cutter, a vacuum forming machine, and more. The equipment will be available to all students studying within the college’s three distinct schools: the School of Art, the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, and the Albert Nerken School of Engineering.
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