DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
The studio held our final review for the semester today, gathering faculty, staff, students, and community members under our pavilion. Even though the structure isn’t fully complete, it was exciting to share the project and see the enthusiasm the community and city had for it. The review felt less like a critique and more like [...]
For the past little while the class has been on site, rushing to get everything built for Wednesday. Over the weekend, all the furniture was welded, grinded, and painted. Additionally, the central columns were placed, and the central beams were installed. Today, we put up the outer columns, which was followed by the outer beams [...]
We are currently at a pivotal point in our build where as soon as we finish the welding the steel, we are able to start construction! This week the columns have been cut and painted. We pre-drilled the columns and will align them to the beams to pre-drill those as well. The city is helping [...]
After coming back from Thanksgiving break, our studio is focused on finishing up our build work in the shop so that we can start assembling on site. Right now, we're working to finish the columns; we've cut them, drilled the holes for bolts, cut a slot for knife plate connections, and have put on our [...]
This weekend, the girls and guys split up to tackle both the LVL beams and the rebar for the concrete piers. The girls began by dimensioning the LVLs and marking the screw pattern, a task that took much longer than expected on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, we focused on screwing the LVLs together, adding [...]
This week has been eventful! As Anna discussed, we poured our concrete slab this week. The process was fascinating, and really fun to be part of! Back in the shop, a group of us finished building the formwork for our concrete piers. After we remove the formwork from the slab, we will install this formwork [...]
Yesterday, we met the city's masonry crew out on site to pour the slab for our pavilion at Stephen Washington park. We watched them adjust the consistency of the concrete mix, maneuver the truck, and pour the concrete. From there, the crew spread the concrete out and around the rebar and helped to flatten it. [...]
This week in studio, we've been preparing for our first concrete pour which will be for our pavilion's slab. We've spent the weekend and the early parts of. this week prepping our site by digging out the area that the slab will be in, and then laying out the rebar. We've also had a crew [...]
On Monday for our Field Studies course, the students got to take a break from the slab site work and participate in sketching the "Sword Gate" house at 32 Legare Street. The study of the site plan for this house was uniquely interesting, as it was essentially a compound of various structures within one property. [...]
We officially broke ground on site! With the concrete formwork nearly complete and rebar on its way, the next week will be dedicated to bending rebar and preparing the site for the slab pour and concrete footers. The images show us digging out the footers for the structural spine of the project and digging to [...]