DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Only one day left before our conceptual review! We were supposed to hold it on Wednesday, but Friday was more convenient for our clients (thank goodness!). We've begun to finalize a one-page template for each of our independent designs (13 total) and final sketches are starting to come together. I was in such a groove [...]
Yesterday in the studio, we took our design further. We got to present our individual designs to our Professor David Pastre, who guided us through the process of creating a better design idea for our presentation on Friday. It is really interesting to see everyone's designs become more defined through criticism and iterations. Photo of [...]
Coming off of our "heavy" snow weekend, we are continuing to produce individual schematic iterations of sweetgrass basket stands. Drawing on feedback from our meeting with Dolphin Architects, the Sea Island Conservancy, and our artisan representative, Corey, our team has divided our areas of focus into three categories. The first being a layout of stands [...]
Post first meeting with the council from Dolphin Architects, the Sea Islands Conservancy and the Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce representative Cory, we started site plan iterations for where the best locations for our stands would be. Some considerations driving these plans being visibility from the street/entrance, incorporation into nature and accessibility. With 3-5 iterations per [...]
Today was an eventful day! After a productive meeting with the studio consultants, we began working on individual design, preparing for studio on Friday. In these first iterations, we are focusing on site options and massing potentials . Image: Printed scaled site plans to sketch onto After classes today, MaKayla shared our initial research and [...]
Today we kicked off our year-long project with a collaborative presentation between the Historic Preservation students and the Community + Build studio, sharing our work with project partners in the forum. We had a group join both in person and via Zoom, helping guide an early discussion that will shape the design process moving forward. [...]
Starting the afternoon with Duck Donuts (shout out Malu and her firm Coast Architects) and a short standup, we all started work on getting the finishing touches of our research and precedent presentation together. Site analysis, local history, and precedent studies are all deep in research for a comprehensive display to the Conservancy of the [...]
With spring cleaning complete and the initial site visit for this semester's sweetgrass stand project concluded, students now pivot to compiling project information, research, and precedent studies for their upcoming presentation on Wednesday. Both the architecture students and historic preservation students are currently collaborating to make this happen. All hands on deck! While everybody is [...]
From kicking off our studio project to wrapping up spring cleaning, there has been a lot of excitement over the past couple days in studio. On Thursday, we travelled to Kiawah for a first look at our site for the year. It was exciting to finally see it in person and walk the paths that [...]
With the Spring Cleaning phase coming to an end, only a handful of projects remain to be finished. The tallest task among the remaining cleanups includes the project at Stephen Washington Park. The crew responsible for this project must finish their design solution to comply with ADA codes. At this pavilion, there are a couple [...]