DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Friday was an important day for the studio. As our Wednesday final presentation deadline approaches, we needed to make some pivotal design decisions as a group to give us headway going into the weekend. We began studio with focusing on either a shed or gabled roof idea digitally modeled, and then shared them with one [...]
Today we had our Community 1:1 book discussion at Kudu Cafe downtown. We talked about the last chapters of Raising the Bar and Let My People Go Surfing. A lot of the conversation ended up being about values, culture, and lifestyle, and what we would want if we ever started our own company or became [...]
The push for a final design continued on Wednesday. At the start of class, we took our two ideas, one with the path on the outside of the structure and one where the path bisects the structure, and developed them further. Both groups were talking, sketching, and measuring spaces in order to figure out proportions, [...]
This past Monday, we returned to our brainstorming and iterative process. After debriefing from Friday’s trip to the conservancy where we had discussion and received feedback, we took time to clearly identify both the strengths and weaknesses of each of the four concepts. We made a list of what was working and what wasn’t so [...]
This week in studio, we will be kicking off our final design phase for the Conservancy of the Sea Islands project. It is an exciting time and we are ready to hit the ground running on this phase. For the next week and a half, we will be working on merging the key concepts from [...]
Friday was a big day for the studio group as we traveled to the headquarters of the Conservancy. After our presentation with them Wednesday, we needed a bit more feedback in order to confidently move forward with the design. At the HQ, the plan was to bring the physical models and printed drawings to be [...]