DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Today is an exciting day for Studio V! We've finished our work in the shop constructing all of the pieces for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall, and today we start building on site. The columns were the last pieces for us to finish up, and so after we bring them out onto site we'll [...]
Since being back from break its been hard to get back into the swing of things. Although Monday and Tuesday this week felt relatively slow, somehow we have blinked and it is already at the end of the week. Despite this slow feeling, we've hit the ground running and hopped back into where we left [...]