DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
MERANTI (which is a species of Mahogany found in the philippines) is an incredibly dense, strong, and durable hardwood and is therefore the perfect candidate for making our shading structure. We spent all evening and night getting our pieces of meranti ready for assembly. The first step in the process was to rip and plane all of [...]
I am pleased to say that today was a monumental step in the progress we’re making at Corinne Jones Park. With the help of Steve Gross, ten of the wall segments were poured and finished. It was a tedious process working with the concrete truck - filling, shoveling, vibrating, re-filling, shoveling out, vibrating more, shoveling [...]
Saturday began as usual. We all met out on site and began shifting the wall forms around on the foundation until they fit well and then we began to fasten them together with the necessary 1/4" space in between each form. Once the students seemed to have it all under control, I left to spend [...]
We spent last night making some very minor changes to our formwork, but changes that make a huge difference once the pieces are set in place on the site. We had to take the front face off of twelve of the blocks and cut angles to make them trapazoids instead of rectangles. Yes, it makes [...]
No, no one in our class has passed away (don't worry!). Some of our moods may be bleak, but rest assured it doesn't reflect on a death or injury among us, other than the usual callused and scraped hands. Instead, we've discovered that we're not only building a cool structure in our park, but a [...]
As most of us know...(I would hope), Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company was the first to apply 'assembly line' type manufacturing to the production of automobiles. I won't go into much of a history lesson, but the Ford Motor Company instituted their assembly line in 1908 in the production of the Model T. [...]
What does 76 melamine panels + 912 2x4's + 10944 woodscrews + 760 nails equal? Concrete Formwork Even though we didn't have studio today, that doesn't mean the StudioV wasn't hard at work. Now that our concrete footer is poured and in place, today we spent time building the formwork for our concrete blocks. To [...]
Occasionally we call upon trained professionals to assist us with tricky and/or challenging tasks. This particular tradesman is named Otto and is highly skilled in concrete finishing. He may look pretty rough with his Batman tattoos exposed underneath rolled-up sleeves, but give him a foam sword and the little kid inside comes out. His help [...]
We've all heard the old adage "measure twice, cut once", but we in Studio V do things a little differently. I remember today going like this: measure once, cut twice, measure again, scratch our heads, go back to the CAD drawing, discuss..., Re-measure, Re-cut, Re-measure again, Re-scratch our heads (this time for the No-see-ums too), [...]
The photo above is the amusing result of the CAC.C group photo, which prompted some artistic shaving, and all of us have had to endure our mustached classmates and professor all during studio today. We determined that each mustache has its own personality dated by a period in history. Joseph starts with a trendsetting ‘60’s [...]