Author: Sara Cheikelard

Our final review was yesterday, and as the previous post said, it went very well.  We had a great turn out of people, including professors, architects, urban planners, and people from the City of Charleston.  They were all amazed at the project, and Jacob Lindsey, a professor at the CAC.C and head of Fabric Urban [...]

Today was another big day for Studio V-We started the morning with removing some of the formwork off the blocks from the first concrete pour.  The front and back panels were relatively easy to get off, with the melamine surfaces leaving it smooth.  Some of the panels in between the blocks are proving difficult to [...]

In case you all didn’t know, there are only 3 girls in Studio V.  We are extremely outnumbered.  The 7 boys (8 including Professor Pastre) have all been bonding the past few days because of no-shave November, and the ladies have been feeling a little left out.  Sometimes we get some back up from the [...]

Today was a very big day for Studio V.  We presented this morning to the Design Review Committee (great job representing us Barrett and Joseph!) and we are hoping to hear back and get approval for our project soon.  Our presentation is now posted on our documents page, and you can see what we have [...]

After the review yesterday left us all hanging, wondering if the chosen scheme would move forward or if we would fall back on ‘the Shade’ project, we finally have a bit of an answer.  First of all, Studio V will be presenting at this Thursday’s Design Review Board meeting.  Matt Compton of the Parks Department [...]

  The studio is filled with scraps of chip board, bass wood, clay and metal mesh, and miniature models are set carefully out of the way.  Our individual designs are coming around, and we are presenting them tomorrow and narrowing them down to 3 ideas to pursue.  We have each explored structure, materials, shading and [...]

Throughout the past week, everyone has been collecting data about the site, visiting it at different times to discover who is using the park and for what purpose-soccer on the field, basketball, tennis, walking their dogs, or using the playground?  All this information is compiled to better understand the neighborhood and what it wants and [...]