DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
After coming back from Thanksgiving break, our studio is focused on finishing up our build work in the shop so that we can start assembling on site. Right now, we're working to finish the columns; we've cut them, drilled the holes for bolts, cut a slot for knife plate connections, and have put on our [...]
This week in studio, we've been preparing for our first concrete pour which will be for our pavilion's slab. We've spent the weekend and the early parts of. this week prepping our site by digging out the area that the slab will be in, and then laying out the rebar. We've also had a crew [...]
Today in studio we received some feedback from our structural engineer, John Moore, on the CD set we had sent to him for his approval. John sent us back some of our sheets with his own markups, indicating elements that needed to change or be adjusted. A lot of the comments that were discussed today [...]
This week in ITC, groups are starting to build their designs for the Metanoia Block Party this weekend. All of the projects that are being built are constructed out of cardboard. My group has come up with a design for seating that is inspired by the craft of traditional Gullah Geechee quilting. Our design includes [...]
With a studio review approaching this Friday afternoon, our studio is hard at work finalizing our group design for the pavilion at Stephen Washington park. Over the weekend, the group found a new precedent which has begun to drive our design moving forward. The MPavillion 2018 project by Estudio Carme Pinos in Melbourne, Australia uses [...]
This week in studio is all about working together as a small group to come up with another pavilion design, which will ultimately provide us with another round of critiques before moving forward with a final design for a new park structure at Stephen Washington Park. I've been teamed up with Madison and Jake, and [...]
Design work has officially commenced in Studio V! Today, the class had a discussion recapping our client meeting from last week and the two site strategies that will be explored moving forward -- "In the play area" and "between the play area and baseball". The class was randomly split into these two groups, and as [...]
As of yesterday, all of our purlins have been attached onto our structure, and now we wait for the cedar shake shingles to arrive! As a crew continued to work on setting the purlins, Anna and I headed over to Old Towne Creek with David to work some finishing touches with stain on the donor [...]
With the prefab of our Plymouth Park structure underway, this week we had teams head out to finish up some of the roofing at Old Towne Creek and then Plymouth to start to prep our site for the build, as well as a team that stayed in the shop to continue to build. This week [...]
Today is an exciting day for Studio V! We've finished our work in the shop constructing all of the pieces for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall, and today we start building on site. The columns were the last pieces for us to finish up, and so after we bring them out onto site we'll [...]