DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Yesterday, we met the city's masonry crew out on site to pour the slab for our pavilion at Stephen Washington park. We watched them adjust the consistency of the concrete mix, maneuver the truck, and pour the concrete. From there, the crew spread the concrete out and around the rebar and helped to flatten it. [...]
This week in studio, we've been preparing for our first concrete pour which will be for our pavilion's slab. We've spent the weekend and the early parts of. this week prepping our site by digging out the area that the slab will be in, and then laying out the rebar. We've also had a crew [...]
On Monday for our Field Studies course, the students got to take a break from the slab site work and participate in sketching the "Sword Gate" house at 32 Legare Street. The study of the site plan for this house was uniquely interesting, as it was essentially a compound of various structures within one property. [...]
We officially broke ground on site! With the concrete formwork nearly complete and rebar on its way, the next week will be dedicated to bending rebar and preparing the site for the slab pour and concrete footers. The images show us digging out the footers for the structural spine of the project and digging to [...]
How many architecture students does it take to build a box? Okay, maybe it's a little more complex than a box, but we set to find out anyways. Today, 4 of us began construction on our concrete formwork after Lad made the trek to Clemson to get the pieces CNC'd. While not having to cut [...]
Today the studio split into two crews. My group went to the site to measure out where the pavilion would be. This involved four of us stretching tapes out and re-adjusting everything so it makes a perfect square and sits well between the trees. We had to hammer rebar into the dirt to mark spots [...]
All weekend long, we were hard at work cranking out the tongue and groove for our roof! It kicked off Friday in the wood shop, where we started cutting the tongue pieces. By Saturday, we realized we needed to rerun all of them to make the tongues slightly smaller so they would fit smoothly into [...]
In Intro to Craft class we had the privilege of touring the Charleston Library Society facility on King Street. The library society is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the country, where a group of intellectual elites in the mid-1700s began purchasing books from England, shipping them to Charleston, and trading amongst themselves. Today, [...]
Today in studio we received some feedback from our structural engineer, John Moore, on the CD set we had sent to him for his approval. John sent us back some of our sheets with his own markups, indicating elements that needed to change or be adjusted. A lot of the comments that were discussed today [...]
As the semester has progressed on through design iterations, presentations, and cd sets, it finally is approaching "go time". This week is a full send on shop drawings and material counts / orders so we may start fabrication in the wood shop as soon as this weekend or next week. Currently something that I have [...]