DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Since we've last updated, we have been hard at work preparing for the first concrete pour of the project. While working with workers form the city, we have learned all about laying string lines and triangulation in order to mark where formwork for the pour have to go. Once string is set, we level the [...]
The time has come to do the cost estimating for the slabs of our project, which means that we need to calculate both the concrete and the rebar that will be used. Before we figured out the rebar, we had to consult with the site plan group to get the most up to date plan [...]
Hello gang, Since we have finished schematic reviews, it’s time to get down to nuts and bolts, almost. We have to carve everything down to one cohesive design, using the feedback from CPC and the City representatives, and one hinge point is really apparent. The decision overshadowing the whole conversation - are we using a [...]
Stone Garden | Coburg Rd. Architecture is all about meetings. Meetings drive communication. communication provides feedback, and feedback informs design. Better design is achieved not by a studio or individual in isolation but as an engaged partnership with the community. This has never held more true than the past few weeks in Architecture + Community [...]
We're back from Spring Break with a lot to do before we start building. Last Friday, we realized that we still had a lot of loose ends with our design and our drawings. We decided to stay after studio to finalize our design and understand what we had to do over Spring Break. We developed [...]
Wednesday, our studio headed upstate to Clemson and Greenville for both Solar Decathlon and Crop Stop Review. While a crew of people working on putting cabinetry for Solar Decathlon together, we had a “skeleton” crew go to Greenville doing the final touch on Crop Stop Kitchen porch. The biggest lesson or experience we learned from [...]
As the tail end of the semester has gone, today marks yet another travel day up to Greenville/Clemson. This final trip from Charleston will be to finalized both the Solar D cabinets and the CropSTOP porch structure along with presenting and reviewing our work. The group will split up between the two sites to prepare [...]