Plymouth Park Pavilion ConceptView from the parking lot, pavilion to be overlooking the playground area.
Plymouth Site Prep & Prefab
With the prefab of our Plymouth Park structure underway, this week we had teams head out to finish up some of the roofing at Old Towne Creek and then Plymouth to start to prep our site for the build, as well as a team that stayed in the shop to continue to build. This week [...]
Priming and Painting for Plymouth Park
This week we've begun fabrication for Plymouth Park. So far we've completed almost all the fabrication for the columns, have successfully cut all the pieces out for the north side's cross bracing, and finished priming all of the cut cross brace pieces for painting. For the columns that are built, we have already applied the [...]
Completion of the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall
After about seven weeks of planning, designing, and building, we’re finally close to finished on the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall and it has been a complete success so far all things considered. What started as a rough planning process working through the best way to fabricate the pieces and producing a material count, has [...]
Springtime in the Lowcountry
As a native Charlestonian, springtime has to be my favorite time of year in the Lowcountry. I describe it like you are stepping into a painting where every hue seems brighter, every scent sweeter, and every breeze softer. A sense of joy seems to fill the air as the city comes out of the cold [...]
Community 1:1 – REDUX Wall Close to Completion | Out of Architecture Part 2
Thursday, April 3rd was a day full of Community 1:1 activities. As I was finishing up my office work for the week, I received a call from David. "Do you want the good news or the bad news first?" he asks. Not having a clue of what he is referring to, I ask for the [...]
Half-Scale Model Complete & Shop Drawings Underway
This week, studio made significant progress on the Plymouth Park pavilion. Today, we completed the half-scale model of the truss system, letting us do a test run of construction to learn from and better understand how the structure comes together. This not only helped us refine our construction process, but also prepared us for the [...]
Half-Scaled Models
Over the weekend, the class split into two separate crews. A handful of students finished building the wall at Old Towne Creek, while others began to work on cut-sheets for the pavilion being constructed at Plymouth Park. Those cut sheets were used today to create half-scaled portions of our pavilion's roof truss system. This involved [...]
Enjoying the Charleston Sun
The studio prioritized time outdoors this weekend... at the worksite! Working Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, our team spent many hours on site this weekend building the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall. On Sunday, some students went back to the site to finish the rafters and purlins while three of us went to the [...]
Old Towne Creek Donor Wall is Standing!
This weekend Studio V got to work on site at Old Towne Creek county park. All of our hard work in the shop coming together to get this donor wall structure standing. We spent a couple of weeks in the shop fabricating, staining, and assembling as many of the pieces as we could. We took [...]