DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Yesterday the Intro to Craft class took a trip to The Urban Electric Company. This field trip offered the students who are working on the final project - a lighting fixture of their choice - some inspiration and background on how custom lighting is made. A key part of the [...]
Before we can move forward with the project we need to get some more wood. We are currently waiting on a large order of wood that will give us the materials we need to get this project up! The wood should be here by the end of the week. Once the wood arrives, we will [...]
This week we were finally able to complete the casing and the door, but as we did we learned some valuable lessons. Lesson 1: Always check the levels of sawdust in the sawdust collector bags before staring work. Lesson 2: Check the blade before cutting your wood, because someone might have used a different blade [...]
The studio was once again split up into smaller teams to finish us the semester. A small group of the Crop Stop team went to Greenville to finishing up the build. The remainder of the studio stayed in Charleston, one half doing construction drawings and worked on the mock up, and the other half hashing out [...]
This weekend, Studio V began its first construction mock and building assembly to figure out design details and construction methods. We needed to test out all the kinks in the design and practice putting materials together in order to improve efficiency before we go to Greenville and build our final structure. For our mock assembly, [...]
Innovation isn't necessarily in being cutting edge in technology or ideas!!! True, that fancy new solar panel or smart wall membrane can have a heavy affect on building performance, but not every project has the budget for high level products. In our Solar Decathlon cabinets, we have to push the idea of innovation as far [...]
We are now getting to the phase of the project where the amount of time vs. work done seems to be slowing down. However, this is only how it seems, where in actuality, we are being much more focused on the detail and craftsmanship of the pieces we are applying to the project. When framing [...]
While I have participated in various construction projects such as Habitat for Humanity or Clemson's Freedom By Design community builds, and have a general comprehension of how "things go together," I am the least experienced of the group in terms of understanding the processes of building with wood. Every other member of the team is [...]