DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
We are currently at a pivotal point in our build where as soon as we finish the welding the steel, we are able to start construction! This week the columns have been cut and painted. We pre-drilled the columns and will align them to the beams to pre-drill those as well. The city is helping [...]
Yesterday, we met the city's masonry crew out on site to pour the slab for our pavilion at Stephen Washington park. We watched them adjust the consistency of the concrete mix, maneuver the truck, and pour the concrete. From there, the crew spread the concrete out and around the rebar and helped to flatten it. [...]
In Intro to Craft class we had the privilege of touring the Charleston Library Society facility on King Street. The library society is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the country, where a group of intellectual elites in the mid-1700s began purchasing books from England, shipping them to Charleston, and trading amongst themselves. Today, [...]
This week we have officially moved on from design and are beginning the build half of the semester. We are quickly transitioning into design development and construction documentation! We have divided into teams, site plan, bench details, calendar, slab, and Revit modeling. In these teams we are working to take our design concept and finalize [...]
Our large group design is narrowing completion as we have our meeting with the city tomorrow afternoon. We have taken strong ideas from the three small groups and narrowed to one final design centered around the driving concept of kites. Kites have a fundamental connection to play, and their function only works in response to [...]
Today in studio we met as a class for an informal review on our progress through small group design. One group is focused on the idea of creating an epicenter for the park - an area of gathering where multiple axis of circulation paths meet. Our group is looking at creating a gateway into the [...]
Today we are continuing working through our individual design concepts for the Stephen Washington Park Pavilion. We only have 7 working days to flush out our designs, and 3 studio classes. After yesterday's studio period, we are all narrowing down on our final scheme and flushing out the details before we work on the deliverables. [...]
As we transition into finals week, our studio is getting so close to finishing our pavilion at Plymouth Park. The cedar shake arrived on Thursday, so we began roofing on Friday in class. The crew went out to site both Saturday and Sunday, pushing on this final leg to finishing out the build. While some [...]
As we roll into this week we officially have 3 weeks remaining in the semester! This weekend we continued to make substantial progress on the build of our Plymouth Park design project. The cross bracing pieces have all been assembled and painted. On Friday we worked on creating a large template to help align the [...]
This weekend Studio V got to work on site at Old Towne Creek county park. All of our hard work in the shop coming together to get this donor wall structure standing. We spent a couple of weeks in the shop fabricating, staining, and assembling as many of the pieces as we could. We took [...]