DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Coming off of a long weekend, we used today for regrouping and setting goals for the rest of the week. The main priority was to start translating digital concepts and sketches into tangible mockups. With these we will be able to make informed decisions on what concepts to move forward with. Half of the group [...]
The group has been making steady progress as we get close to wrapping up the semester. Yesterday we continued working on a variety of tasks. We just received structural updates from John Moore on the project with the Conservancy of the Sea Islands. With this information, we aim to apply the corrections to our construction [...]
Friday we took some time to determine where we were in the process of being able to produce construction documents. Our goal is to have them done in a timely manner so that we can get as much feedback from John Moore, our structural consultant, as possible. After discussion on larger scale elements within the model, we [...]
We've made it! For the past 2 months we have been brain-storming, researching, and sketching to design an interactive landmark for the Conservancy of the Sea Islands as they prepare to establish their center for restoration advocacy across Kiawah, Seabrook, and John's Island. Today is our final presentation where we will meet with board members [...]
As of today, all groups have worked on figuring out the logistics of their concepts and are preparing to complete the bulk of their work as we look to the presentation this coming Wednesday. Part of our small group is working out the logistics and costs of our proposed design while the others work on [...]
Coming off of our "heavy" snow weekend, we are continuing to produce individual schematic iterations of sweetgrass basket stands. Drawing on feedback from our meeting with Dolphin Architects, the Sea Island Conservancy, and our artisan representative, Corey, our team has divided our areas of focus into three categories. The first being a layout of stands [...]