DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As we begin to wrap up our first draft of construction documents, it is time that we start thinking critically about how we are going to physically build the different pieces that make up our project. While one group heads out to the site to stake out the building footprint, the other groups are hard [...]
After meeting with local engineer John Moore last week, the Clemson Design Build studio is hard at work making slight changes to the design of our green roof pavilion. We began by splitting off into different focus groups that worked on components of the project including lateral stability, site, roof structure, foundation, and built-in layouts. [...]
One very useful skill that architecture students use to study and analyze structure is through the process of physical modeling. Modeling building components in a digital setting can be useful to come up with rapid iterations and explore form. On the other hand, physical modeling helps us design the structure of a building, explore materiality, [...]
One of the electives that many of us in the design-build studio take is David Pastre’s Intro to Craft course. This class introduces us to design as informed by craft through a series of hands-on labs where we learn basic craft operations and material properties. For our first assignment, we were tasked with building a [...]