Don’t Forget the Fish: Part II

Alternative title : Shrimp, grit, and determination . Trying to look at the big picture, last semester's Clemson Architecture+communityBUILD (A+cB) program taught me the biggest lesson of the critical path - thinking about the work in the sequence required and working on parts that you will need first to allow other people to continue moving [...]

“Work Smarter, Not Harder”

"Work smarter, not harder."  Sounds like something my father or grandfather would tell me, gently chiding me for making something more complicated than it needs to be and then instructing me on a way to do it better, faster, more accurately - or giving me a better tool to do the job.  That's another phrase [...]

Subjective Storage Solutions

The last week I've been focused on looking at solving the storage needs that the Charleston Parks Conservancy has provided to us.  I've been explaining our project as a shaded pavilion in a public park with garden tool storage, but storage and shade seem like the most important components to me. Leslie from the Charleston [...]

Values and Form

Lynn described in the previous post about breaking down after individual designs into teams of three students into a group, and today I was reminded of the struggle of sharing and blending both values/goals and individual forms.  I'm working along with Juhee and Yage , and we've been coined as the "BIG small," team.  'BIG [...]

Don’t Forget the Fish

Due to the upcoming Hurricane Irma that is currently between Cuba, Haiti, and the Bahamas, Clemson University has decided to cancel classes at the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston (CAC.C).  Students were warned through a series of meetings to get a full tank of gas, arrange transportation, and find a place of refuge.  There are [...]