DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Last Saturday for our Field Studies class, we had the ability to visit the Middleton Place Inn. The Inn was somewhere I had never been before, and had only seen a few photos and didn't know much about. But boy did it not disappoint! When I had gotten there, I was blown away by the [...]
As we near time to start constructing our pavilion and wall, it is important that we go out to the site and get a rough estimate of where on the site the structures will be located. Yesterday, some of us had the opportunity to visit the site to measure, stake, and spray paint rough dimensions [...]
The other week we presented three group designs to our clients. one of the design featured a fireplace within the structure. Though at first it was received with mixed responses, the clients came to a conclusion that they would like the idea of a fireplace to create a separate gathering area, without having to place [...]
This past Saturday was the 47th Cooper River Bridge Run, a 10k run starting in Mount Pleasant and finishing on King Street in downtown Charleston, crossing the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge. I, along with 26,000 other participants, decided to tackle the 10K in style by "Getting Over It" (this years motto). In one weekend, the [...]
This semester I have been paired with the non-profit Release Over 20" which is an advocate for sustainable catch and release fishing, especially fish that are over 20". Most creek and river fish over 20" are females capable of reproducing at extreme numbers. For example, a 20" trout releases approximately 20 million eggs a spawning [...]
Over the past week and a half, students in the Community Build course have been collecting research for the upcoming Build project. Research started with a class site visit to Old Towne Creek County Park. Following this, students were broken up into research categories: researching our partners for the build, history of the site, site [...]