Heavy metal. 🤘 This week, every studio member has had opportunities inside and outside of studio time to cut, grind and weld steel which has been a pretty neat hands-on learning experience. It's also been really rewarding to see collective improvement among the whole group in each of these skills. Much more welding and fabricating [...]
Author: Andrew Schick
grid s h i f t
//It's all about the grid // Â On Monday, we discussed several different plan iterations based on various grid layouts. Groups have formed for additional research focusing on topics such as budgeting, trellis modeling + detailing, and reaching out to local lumber suppliers. While much of the structure + details still need to still be [...]
Post Small-Group Design Review
 On Monday, it was the perfect afternoon to head back down to Wadmalaw Island to present our small group designs boards & models to the teachers, faculty & students of Fredith L. Frierson Elementary School. It was a unique privilege and opportunity to be able to communicate our ideas to the school's fourth and [...]
sim[PLY] shelter
On Sunday afternoon, several members of the Architecture+communityBUILD team assembled a small-scale plywood structure that a past studio utilized for communicating Architectural elements to elementary schoolchildren. The structure was erected without any power tools thanks to the innovative plywood system, sim[PLY], which was invented over four years ago by Clemson Architecture faculty & students. Sim[PLY] [...]