GlassLab design sessions can take place in any working hotshop either at The Corning Museum of Glass or on the road. Most GlassLab sessions take place offsite, enabled by a mobile, ultralight glassblowing studio specially designed and developed by The Corning Museum of Glass with Spiral Arts. The customized hot-glass studio and stage are housed and travel in a deluxe shipping container designed by Paul Haigh. GlassLab can be deployed in almost any urban or rural location.

The GlassLab container, which can be shipped around the world and easily self-deployed via hydraulic legs, is pre-plumbed and pre-wired to work for all international locations. A stage can be built to accommodate any location. The container includes the following ultralight equipment:

• 75lb. propane glass melting unit
• A propane annealer for slow-cooling glass
• Two 13-inch glory holes for reheating glass
• A propane garage to keep pieces warm during the glassmaking process
• A pipewarmer
• Two glassmaking benches
• A marver which provides glassmakers with a surface to smooth out gobs of glass on the end of a pipe