DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
HE PUTS ON ANOTHER COAT!!! This weekend we worked on completing the walls and operable doors. We have cut and painted all wood slats and we began painting the owl mural wall. Any wood slats that didn't have a mural on them we painted a neutral color to match the wood. We used David's Projector [...]
With all the shop drawings complete we began to cut the beams. Over the weekend we continued to cut and drill holes into the 2x10 pieces of timber. In order to make this process go smoothly we made two jigs. We all broke out in multiple groups to tackle everything. John and Peyton maned the [...]
Wednesday in studio we broke up into multiple teams. 1 group went out to site and marked the pavilions locations. The 2nd group worked on tearing down the walls at Green hearts existing site. The 3rd group worked on finalizing form work for the concrete pier foundation. And the last group which I was in [...]
This week we have progressed in the CDs and further designed the pavilion. We recently sent our most up to date CD set to a local structural engineer to look over. The main design changes are that we made our connection to the ground be concrete piers. In addition, we have removed the roof ridge [...]
Yesterday was the concrete pour day at Ardmore for our bridge foundation. We met bright and early on site at 7:30am ready to set our posts. We had our 4 posts that needed concrete poured as well as two landing points for each end of the bridge. We would not have been able to done [...]
This week we have broken up into three teams (Frierson, Ardmore, and Singleton). With only a few weeks left of class we are trying to push out some final things with all of these projects. Frierson l has some work that is being finished to it. Ardmore has planters and a bridge installation that will [...]
T-minus 3 days till Spring break! With the break being right around the corner we are all in full grind, as we have started schematic design. This will lead into our final design. Currently, we have broken into 3 groups of 5. Each group worked with each other Monday and came back together at the [...]
This week heads are down as we focus on our Individual design review coming up this Friday. For this review there are three main concept of placements of the pavilion: 1.) A centrally located main pavilion 2.) A main pavilion located on the top corners of the site 3.) Multiple locations of small structures (Above [...]
(above is an elevation view of what the mural will look like resting in-between the two column bays) With the PLI approaching quickly, the crew has been preparing the CDCC for the event. The studio has broken up into teams. The first one cleaning up around the center and woodshop. The second working towards making name [...]
Today, we worked on putting together our rafters. This required us to arrange all the pieces in a neat and orderly fashion so the process would go by smoothly. We had to take into account the placement of the head of the bolt, which we chose to face inside the pavilion as the nuts and [...]