DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
The final design has been approved by the Conservancy of The Sea Island board! You know what that means... next phase of work. This phase is the construction documents phase in which we need everything to be in perfect order, organized, detailed, and functioning as planned. David has been especially enthusing about this lecture, and [...]
Yesterday, each of the four groups fiercely competed to convince the Conservancy of the Sea Islands that their project is the best and that theirs is the one that needs to be built... Not really. We had a great discussion about the productively diverse designs to narrow down towards the last design, which is our [...]
Today I interviewed Catherine Cooke. Cat is a designer. Not to be confused with an interior designer or an interior decorator. I can say that because she designs entire spaces, inside and out. She might say differently but in my opinion she designs vibes. She's 28 years old and owns her own company that she [...]
Today we "unveiled" Frierson's outdoor learning pavilion. Our colleagues from last year who designed the pavilion were able to come down and join us for the ribbon cutting event as well as the majority of the school. It was nice to meet everyone who was part of the process or who have seen the progress [...]
Today we shared our final-ish design for our Singleton Park Pavilion. We worked hard to get everything up on the boards and deliver the project's intent to the best of our abilities today and overall we all saw it as a success. We enjoyed hearing different points of view on the project from the education [...]
This week we started on our design process for Singleton Park's garden! We were all excited to get into the weeds of it, and we had our first meetings with Prof. Pastre today on our work so far. We all were randomly assigned different "Site Approaches" which delineated generally where the main gathering space and [...]
Following a rainy, cold Sunday, the sun peeking over clouds was most welcome at the Frierson project site. Having previously finished painting and oat of the exterior wall panel configurations, my fellow students and I split into two groups to tackle the next task at hand: framing interior partition walls. Having aptly prepared all of [...]
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 [...]