DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Last Friday reminded us that a site plan is only as real as the permits behind it. We arrived at Betsy Kerrison, ready to mark column locations and continue site prep, but learned that breaking ground requires a zoning permit and a three-week review period. The review ensures our project's scope meets the requirements of [...]
Friday morning we planned to go out to Betsy Kerrison in order to remark our column locations, as well as carry out further site preparation. However, when meeting David and Sean, our contact from the Conservancy of the Sea Islands, we were informed that in order for us to break ground required a zoning permit. [...]
These past few weeks we have had several projects in the works, everyone contributing at some point. I have been helping with the design of the walls from the market stalls, focusing on the connection points and transparency of these walls through physical model making. . The process started in a small 2’x2’ mockup just [...]
The design-build team is looking forward to heading out to site on Friday to break ground!! Today was our last in studio day, so we spent time prepping, scheduling, and making final decisions on design prior to material ordering. To begin studio, we all touched base on where deliverables such as permitting, material costs, lead [...]
Hi, Today we split the group in half. Group One : went on site to re-flag the pavilion with our new adjusted orientation and positioning of our structure. From our first try we noticed that our ramp was angling your body towards the tree along the path so we went back on our model and [...]
Last week, David spoke with the hot dip galvanizing people, and they informed us that they think the frame as we have it designed currently, will warp once it is dipped. To avoid this, we are looking at a small design change that uses pre-galvanized pieces and using as many bolted connections as possible. This [...]
By the later half of last week, part of the class was hard at work milling cutting and assembling our first true mockup for our wall panels. (Note that the mockup we created was just a section of our wall and not the entire assembly). To save a little cost on materials we purchased regular 2x6 [...]
Pictured: Team collaboration From crunching numbers in our budget to heading down to the woodshop for mockups, this has been a very busy week for us. As my classmates have shared, we are in the midst of our transition from the digital drawing world to the physical built world. While some of us have been [...]
With a couple weeks of planning logistics, pricing, and design, things are starting go underway. My role recently has been to put together fastener counts and pricing for the project. Our structural engineer has given us plenty of information to determine the necessary fasteners. I took these required parts and put them into excel to [...]
Good news! The MOU has been completed! We are now chugging along to finish up these last few design options and hope to get materials ordered, shop drawings started, and get into fabrication and on-site work ASAP. For the group working on the pavilion’s walls, we were able to come together and develop a pattern [...]