DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Fall break weekend was really productive for the studio. We Cut all the wood for columns and rafters. The 6x10's and 6x8's are being moved to the Mitre saw and cut to size and mitred. On Wednesday the studio split into three different groups. A crew continued cutting the wood, another crew finished up welding [...]
This Past Friday we completed our first of the two concrete pours. The small slab and the first pour of our trellis was completed. On Saturday we went back and removed the formwork from the small slab and cleaned it for it to be reused for the larger slab. We then started working on the [...]
Starting yesterday, we decided to work in groups on a shift basis to be efficient with our times. Crews were determined based on their class schedules yesterday. Several students had a meeting for a mentorship class between noon and 1.00. We kicked off the day with a crew starting to paint and another crew cutting, [...]
Today we started studio with discussing the plans for next two weeks as we have the first concrete pour scheduled for last weekend of the month. After the discussion we split into different groups and started tackling down the list to do one after another. Storage group started to finalize their material for their structure [...]
After a week of research and rebuilding the kites, ITC students went back to the beach yesterday to test their kites. This time with proper bridles and tails the kites flew better. Amanda's kite flew the highest and attracted visitors from the beach. After experimenting the kites, we went back to studio to wrap up [...]
After the counts and shop drawings were made, we placed the order last week and the steel got delivered on Monday right before Studio. We moved all the 20’ long extruded steel plates into the shop(Our home for next 40 days). It took almost an hour to get the assembly line prepared for Non- stop [...]
After working on trellis for two nights we designed a detail that was a bit complicated. We decided to use composite decking for the horizontal part of the trellis. As the title says, the more you dream, the more you can do. It's a dream that came to rescue us from all those complications. A [...]
With few of us zooming-in yesterday, we continued the process of putting all our ideas together. Over the weekend, all three teams have been working on different conceptual design models with an orientation [...]
Today, as an initiative to give the students of Edith L. Frierson Elementary the exposure to architecture and design, we drove out to Frierson Elementary and helped the 4th and 5th grade kids to build a structure. The students quickly became familiar with the system, and built this amazing small little room. They split up [...]