COVERAGE OF THE DESIGN/BUILD PROJECTS BY STUDIO V OF THE CLEMSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER IN CHARLESTON
Monday was our last concrete pour! After three separate visits from the concrete fairy we now have both sides of our slab, twelve proud piers, and two supports for our vegetable washing sink. We were supposed to pour the piers around three but the concrete truck was there around 1 pm, so we had to [...]
The weekend proved to be extremely productive, exhausting, painful, sweaty, and dirty. But why would you want it any other way? Take a gander at this cute little time-lapse of our group of dwarves working Sunday to finish the concrete work for our mock-up at Magnolia Community Garden over in West Ashley: Our goal is [...]
On Wednesday, after a nice fall break, we got the chance to finally meet face-to-face with the man who will end up stamping our construction documents. John Moore in accordance with Dave will be the ones going to jail if our structure fails and does bodily harm to the Medway volunteers and visitors - so [...]
What to say about a well-rounded group of designs presented this past Friday. The goal of the progress review was to provide the Charleston Parks Conservancy with four interesting proposals where each targeted a different but equally important issue or opportunity. Our first group which was comprised of Katie, Tyler, and Lynn were tasked with [...]
Irma really through a curve-ball at us over the past week. With us evacuating the city and preparing for the worst, our individual design presentations have been pushed back a week to Wednesday, September 20th. Many of us fled to Clemson, some to Atlanta, and others to Athens, but we all at least had the [...]
The second day. We’re past the initial visit to the site, past the meeting with our client, and on to the most exciting and riveting portion of the entire design process: research. I say this with a twinge of sarcasm but also with truth as well. Research is the first step, it reveals opportunities, challenges, [...]