Author: raeches

Good morning and Happy Monday! Most of our class spent the weekend working on site, and in the shop. We are finishing the groundwork surrounding our site, and working on welding and staining purlins. I am pretty exhausted and I would say most of my classmates are too. Everyday we are diving into hours of [...]

Good morning and Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend and feel rested and excited for the week! I am starting this week slightly sore because.... no big deal or anything BUT WE ARE STARTING TO BUILD! Last week we started laying out the site and we also got all of the [...]

Happy Wednesday! Yesterday was our first day back in studio for the week. We met with Chief Ken and he looked over our construction documents and gave us helpful information about our drawings and how they can improve. I am proud of our studio for everyone's hard work and dedication to the project and not [...]

Good morning, Happy Wednesday! Yesterday was our first studio of the week and we dove right into progressing our build. The girls started working on slab foundation details, revit sheet detailing, and material counts. The boys headed down into the shop to start organizing and preparing for pre-fab by organizing drill bits, and other miscellaneous [...]

Good morning!! There is a crispness to the air this morning in Charleston, and I can feel fall coming. Not sure if it's just for this first hour of the day or if it's here to stay now. Yesterday, our studio met with the legend John Moore. He is our structural engineer, and he really [...]

We are reaching the finish line of our first semester! Excitement is high as the final design of the pavilion is coming together. We still have a long way to go but the end is in sight and everyone is working so well together and producing exciting work. Each student is working individually or in [...]

This week is a really exciting week for our studio!  We started off Monday by meeting on site for our project with Charleston County Parks, prepared with our eclipse glasses. We met with multiple members of the staff to get better insight into our small group designs and what they liked and what they didn't [...]

Welcome back to the blog after spring break! Today is our first day back in studio after the break and I am excited to hear about what my classmates did! We have been working really hard this semester and for me personally it was really nice to have a little break. Today our group design [...]