Still looking to Friday!

Yesterday in the studio, we took our design further. We got to present our individual designs to our Professor David Pastre, who guided us through the process of creating a better design idea for our presentation on Friday. It is really interesting to see everyone's designs become more defined through criticism and iterations. Photo of [...]

Looking to Friday!

Coming off of our "heavy" snow weekend, we are continuing to produce individual schematic iterations of sweetgrass basket stands. Drawing on feedback from our meeting with Dolphin Architects, the Sea Island Conservancy, and our artisan representative, Corey, our team has divided our areas of focus into three categories. The first being a layout of stands [...]

Site Plan Iterations + Snow

Post first meeting with the council from Dolphin Architects, the Sea Islands Conservancy and the Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce representative Cory, we started site plan iterations for where the best locations for our stands would be. Some considerations driving these plans being visibility from the street/entrance, incorporation into nature and accessibility. With 3-5 iterations per [...]

Finishing Cleaning!

With the Spring Cleaning phase coming to an end, only a handful of projects remain to be finished. The tallest task among the remaining cleanups includes the project at Stephen Washington Park. The crew responsible for this project must finish their design solution to comply with ADA codes. At this pavilion, there are a couple [...]

Final Review!

The studio held our final review for the semester today, gathering faculty, staff, students, and community members under our pavilion. Even though the structure isn’t fully complete, it was exciting to share the project and see the enthusiasm the community and city had for it. The review felt less like a critique and more like [...]

A Busy Week!

This week has been eventful! As Anna discussed, we poured our concrete slab this week. The process was fascinating, and really fun to be part of! Back in the shop, a group of us finished building the formwork for our concrete piers. After we remove the formwork from the slab, we will install this formwork [...]

Shop Drawings and Formwork

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 [...]

Community Review and Site Walk!

Today in studio, we had the opportunity to meet with the James Island community and neighbors of Stephen Washington Park to share our small group designs. Each of the three small groups presented the proposals, showing our models and boards to the community. Everyone brought a lot of excitement and encouragement, which made the review [...]