Early on a saturday morning, it was our day one at Sweetgrass Garden..... We are ready to wash... Ooppss.... I meant we are ready to clean and sanitize the shed. There was a lot of moisture and dust a little bit everywhere on the structure, but you need to trust my right hand DJ Holmes, [...]
Category: Student Posts
Head on new beginnings
As you might already know, last week was fun, and a little sad for football fans like me. The Tigers didn't bring home another National Championship and well, I know we will get them next year. Keeping on the fun part......We visited most of the projects that were built in the past 3 - 5years [...]
Wasabi Arugula
As the title alludes, yes, the week has culminated to a spicy and delicately crisp ending. The Architecture and Community Build studio has been working hard this week on cleaning and repairs to projects of semesters past. It has been a wonderful experience to immerse ourselves in the design-build scene and study our student predecessors' [...]
How many arch students does it take to perform small engine repairs?
Tale of the Pressure Washer: A Love Story This is a tale of action, adventure, romance, and betrayal. We find our heroes on a quest to repair a broken power washer engine to prepare for project repairs ahead of this weekend. The task seemed reasonably simple: a quick check of the spark plugs, oil, and [...]
Tend to the old, before starting the new
We’re here in beautiful Charleston, SC, at the start of another year. Though it is technically winter, it feels like summertime. The fish are jumping, and the old community build pressure washer is finally about to be fired up. Spoiler alert, we are about to do a lot of cleaning and some repairs to start [...]
The END (ish)
The final blog post of the semester falls into the hands of the "princess" of Studio V. As much as I love the spotlight, this blog post shines a little light on those who kindly responded to my email during finals week. Even though we are still throwing together the final touches to our Enston [...]
FINALS WEEK !!!
This week has been a hectic one... but definitely one for the books for Studio V! Keep scrolling to see our three highlights over the past couple days! First and foremost... a very special thank you to The Green Heart Project and The Charleston Housing Authority, for this grand opportunity! Don Cameron, of The Charleston [...]
David Pastre
The trusses are up and we are HAPPPPPPYYYY! A few issues need to be fixed but we are 90% done and the review went well In my previous post I described the 12 little builders, so now it's time to talk to you all about the man in charge of teaching the 12 little builders. [...]
Assemble That Trust
This was a great and successful day because we were able to assemble four out of the five trusses. We came up with a very effective way to assemble the trusses and this process helped us be more efficient . The great teamwork that everybody brought was definitely a great bonus. It was a great [...]
Morning Update
As we continue to charge forward this week, we are having team members basically working around the clock. There's a morning crew, a night crew, and the understanding that whenever you have free time, you should be in the shop working on the current task or tasks. I say "tasks" because we have about three [...]