DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
These past few days have been focused on collecting as much information as possible about our site, our client, and our scope. This has all been done with the conviction that the more informed we are, the more successful the resultant product will be. It is awesome to see people mesh and work together and [...]
The second day. We’re past the initial visit to the site, past the meeting with our client, and on to the most exciting and riveting portion of the entire design process: research. I say this with a twinge of sarcasm but also with truth as well. Research is the first step, it reveals opportunities, challenges, [...]
It was very excited to begin our first visit to the Design Built project we have done at Magnolia Community Garden and our new project site visit at Medway Park. We met with Harry Lesesne, Leslie Wade, and Jim Martin, who are the staff members from The Charleston Parks Conservancy. They gave us the tour and [...]
We have now officially completed our semester here in Charleston. The design build had moments of difficulty, yet was full of reward. We had some difficulties with the movable walls and the caster system that goes under the desk and bar. The caster system was fixed and the casters are to be replaced and the [...]
The semester is coming to a close and so is our time with Redux. Over the course of the semester we have brainstormed, coming up with potential opportunities for Redux with regards to signage, wayfinding, walls, the desk & bar, landscaping, and the creation of a potential stage. We had been tasked with completing a [...]
With about a week and a half left of the design build, we are pushing out the final changes in our both our construction documents and mockups. We have begun to physically build the bar and reception desk. The components of our three moving walls have been ordered, and the studs are to be cut [...]
In the short years of architecture school, one of the main concepts that has demonstrated for us to understand is how to solve a problem. One aspect about solving a problem is not to get to attached to your designs. Many times it is a good idea, but we all know that there is a [...]
Today, as well as the past few days we have been putting in a lot of extra hours to make sure that the project gets done before the due date. Several of us have been meeting in the shop in the early hours of the morning and staying late after studio ends. We don't mind [...]
For the track system walls there are brackets that hold the wall incase a lateral force is applied. all the weight of the wall rests on the floor, but they might experience lateral loads from someone accidentally falling on the wall (they do serve alcohol at events). So we have worked with a structural engineer [...]
Normally "reinventing the wheel" has a negative connotation with it, but we have been designing a better use of a caster wheel on a desk. Normally a caster wheel tends to have a swivel effect when locked on a desk. We didn't want who ever is using the desk that we have been designing to [...]