DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
With a studio review approaching this Friday afternoon, our studio is hard at work finalizing our group design for the pavilion at Stephen Washington park. Over the weekend, the group found a new precedent which has begun to drive our design moving forward. The MPavillion 2018 project by Estudio Carme Pinos in Melbourne, Australia uses [...]
A majority of our studio is enrolled in a Field Studies course that focuses on observational sketching of local architecture. Throughout this course we have been producing a plethora of sketches within the downtown Charleston area, however this past Saturday the class changed up the scenery and took a trip to Middleton Inn by WG [...]
In field studies, the class met out at Wragg Square to discuss the first 3 chapters of The Thinking Hand, by Juhani Pallasmaa. The conversation focused around how the hand is used in many more ways than we might think. As we discussed the different uses and common understanding of the hand, the conversation transitioned [...]
Today in studio, we had the opportunity to meet with the James Island community and neighbors of Stephen Washington Park to share our small group designs. Each of the three small groups presented the proposals, showing our models and boards to the community. Everyone brought a lot of excitement and encouragement, which made the review [...]
Yesterday afternoon, Jason came by the studio again to preview our small group designs, which we will be re-presenting to the community tomorrow. None of the designs were perfect, but Jason saw potential in each of them and deemed that all 3 are fit to be shown to members of the neighborhood association! Our goal [...]
Today, the small groups are making a final push for our presentation tomorrow. Tomorrow, each of the three groups must present their pavilion idea to Jason and Rodney from the city, and two community leaders who will critique our designs and provide us with thoughts and feedback. Most groups finished their deliverables over the weekend, [...]
There was actually no glue sniffin... Our group is so close to finishing our individual design! We worked together over the weekend to collect the design deliverables for our presentation to the community which is this Tuesday and Wednesday. Our project focuses on the pavilion and playground connection acting as the “epicenter” of park activity. [...]
As we have been working through our small group design phase, the buzzword in the studio has been "iterate". We are all trying to work through this repetitive phase of communicating design ideas, combining perspectives, narrowing down a design goal and narrative, and iterating through variations of these concepts to create the best possible solution [...]
Today in studio we met as a class for an informal review on our progress through small group design. One group is focused on the idea of creating an epicenter for the park - an area of gathering where multiple axis of circulation paths meet. Our group is looking at creating a gateway into the [...]
This week in studio is all about working together as a small group to come up with another pavilion design, which will ultimately provide us with another round of critiques before moving forward with a final design for a new park structure at Stephen Washington Park. I've been teamed up with Madison and Jake, and [...]