DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Nor do the wind, the sun, and the rain. Community build don't fear no rebar. Or concrete footings. Or formwork. Our work - ITS IN FORM. It's Friday and Its been a few weeks since I've SPOKEn to all you community build/ StudioV fans. I have the pleasure of updating you all on the success [...]
Y'all remember spokey dokeys right? The '80s and '90s evolution of the playing card in your bike spokes to make you go faster, sound cooler, and be super rad. We're all about the research into bike spokes as a design concept for our structural system and have done the deep dive into the evolution of [...]
Good morning everyone, it's Friday! That means final design charrette day with Studio V A+CB. Our design / build team is meeting up this afternoon to have a good ol' fashioned design charrette for our Forest Park Bridge repair project. We've gotten a lot of great feedback from the Parks Conservancy and many other of [...]
On a crisp and cool Sunday morning you can't beat sipping a cappuccino while looking for inspiration at the Magnolia Community Garden. Today's featured image is a vegetable trellis structure for growing - I decided to snap a photo for future reference in studio. This past week my studio partner, Caleb, and I have explored [...]
What do blogs teach us? Following a productive weekend of researching architectural precedents, Charleston history, horticulture history, and West Ashley climatic and demographic information, Studio V had the chance yesterday to run through all of our findings and compile them into a more cohesive plan for this coming Friday's presentation with the Charleston Parks Conservancy. We [...]
Hello. (Is there anybody in there?) The timing of this post simply echoes Ryan's previous post. Its a busy time and hard work to remain organized and on schedule. Our featured image today is a Zoom call of our group as we work this evening to hone in on the outline of our version 2 [...]
Good Morning! Today we will reconvene in studio to discuss some explorations into the structure and progress of our projects. Although we are focusing primarily on final design and construction documentation this week, we had to break and explore some mock-ups of connections and processes to manipulate steel. Early this week we dabbled in some [...]
And, certainly who can say where the time goes as well. Evidence provided by this Friday update appearing Sunday afternoon; it has been a very busy week. Somehow channeling the proverbs of Enya earlier this week proved a productive exercise in which the Coburg-Timmerman 'square' group sat and sketched out some ideas for the space along [...]
That's a GREAT looking bird. Its a great white egret. I found this guy while taking a walk on the West Ashley Greenway this past weekend with my wife, Hannah, and my dog, Romulus. Studio V is deep into research and compiling our thoughts into some concepts for a few key sites along the Greenway. [...]
As the title alludes, yes, the week has culminated to a spicy and delicately crisp ending. The Architecture and Community Build studio has been working hard this week on cleaning and repairs to projects of semesters past. It has been a wonderful experience to immerse ourselves in the design-build scene and study our student predecessors' [...]