DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As we're all working away in the woodshop I see this framed photo of Norm Abram in the office that takes me back to watching This Old House with my mom growing up, learning how to do all the same stuff we're doing in the woodshop now. Just a good reminder as to why I [...]
The studio had a nice fall break Monday and Tuesday... Wish that could last longer but --> Back to work!! Before we left for fall break last Friday we painted lots of our boards with one of our colors: French Toast. We spent a lot of time deciding the color palette for our walls/structure/trellis. We [...]
After selecting our paint colors based on how the gathering ground renderings looked, we purchased paint samples and tested each of them out on some scrap pieces of plywood. To get the proper color "experience", we went outside into the sunlight and compared each of the color samples with each other and some of [...]
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 [...]
This Friday the studio continued to begin organizing/designing components of the project. Some groups are working out drawings for the decking structure, others are designing smaller components, the project schedule/calendar is continuing to develop, and cost estimation is in the works as information is being collected. The rainy afternoon set some good vibes for the [...]
We finally finished preparing everything to take to the site at Stephen Washington Park. A group headed out early in the morning to drill the table we had prefabricated in the shop and luckily, everything fit and worked exactly as planned!!! We also had a bit of fun in the kids' park since it was [...]
The group has been making steady progress as we get close to wrapping up the semester. Yesterday we continued working on a variety of tasks. We just received structural updates from John Moore on the project with the Conservancy of the Sea Islands. With this information, we aim to apply the corrections to our construction [...]
The group is working together in shifts of 4-5 people to finish the table and benches for Stephen Washington Park. Yesterday, the morning shift made serious progress on bench 1, beveling and welding it together. The afternoon shift worked on grinding down the bench and priming the table that was finished being welded on Monday. [...]
Studio right now looks a lot like this. People grinding, welding, cutting, cleaning, prepping. We are all fabricating last years community build groups project extension of the bench and table to meet the ADA requirements. Additionally others are working on finishing up there community 1:1 non-profit projects. WAY better than sitting in studio on a [...]
Our final book discussion of the semester has concluded at Goat. Sheep. Cow. Finishing up the book, Out of Architecture, we discussed potential changes to the education of architecture as well as changes to the profession. Some ideas we had about education were reducing the number of total years in architecture school, adding more technical [...]