Month: October 2012

As you know from previous posts, we are now famous for stuff we have yet to do because of the 6 page spread in the newspaper.  Everyone is excited to see what we are going to do and is anticipating greatness, which is good and bad at the same time. We know the gist of [...]

After a glorious and much needed Fall break the studio met again at the shop on Simons Street to get back to work.  Upon arriving to the shop I noticed that something seemed wrong.. it seemed quiet.. way too quiet.  No noisy saws ripping bamboo into structural test members, no drills, no fans, no conversation [...]

After a nice fall break, everyone was better prepared and more excited about completing the Pulse Dome project.  After a brief recap on Friday, the team separated into two different groups to prepare for a long weekend break.  One team focused on gathering and discussing new ideas that would improve the current design, and the [...]

So here we are more than half way through the semester and it's Fall Break. So what have we accomplished so far? When we started or design for Marion Square many of us had never designed a project that was going to be built. So considering that, is was going to be obvious that we were going [...]

Fall is in the air! Today we had our urbanism class in the courtyards of College of Charleston. Being able to sit in the crisp air and listen to the hustle and bustle of college students was a great break from architecture. Now that the weather is a little more tolerable, sitting around a fire [...]

After our review on Monday, we have decided to consider simplifying our design to include fewer stair components for cost purposes.  We also are considering including a viewing platform in place of one set of stairs to serve as an advertising element for the Halsey gallery.  Our focus now is to solidify a design and structure [...]

Yesterday was our final design review with the client. The bamboo dome on top of the fountain was generally liked by the reviewers. It shouldn't be too difficult to construct considering all of the sections on the main dome are exactly the same curve just cut where the doors occur, as long as we can [...]

The review today went quite well. Over the weekend we all worked so hard in finishing up this project for thre review and there was a sense of stress and sleeplessness throughout the room. But we made it! The plan is coming along. We have to further look into our ideas and get them more [...]

The past couple of days, we have been testing the material capabilities of bamboo.  With the intent that the bamboo will bend and hold a form, we hope to build our dome off-site and have an easy/quick installation on the corner of King and Calhoun. The rig was constructed on Thursday (Oct. 4) with a [...]

In the past few days I’ve been working with bending the bamboo for the structure of the Pulse Dome and I’ve been exploring the method of steaming the bamboo to help it bend.  Last night I made simple experiment where I put a little bit of water in a big pot and placed a small [...]