DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
This should be the final week for Crop Stop 1, and then its on to Crop Stop 2. After all the hard work we've put into this place over the past couple of weeks,putting up the FRP, putting in the flooring, building the cooler door, etc., we've almost made it to the finish line. All [...]
This week we were finally able to complete the casing and the door, but as we did we learned some valuable lessons. Lesson 1: Always check the levels of sawdust in the sawdust collector bags before staring work. Lesson 2: Check the blade before cutting your wood, because someone might have used a different blade [...]
As you have seen, we have had a group to lay the floor and trailer the appliances out to John's Island. The wood grain vinyl flooring looks great with the Cypress trim that is throughout the structure. As the floor and appliances have been placed, there has been a group of students working back a [...]
Today, Monday February 2nd, we met at the shop in Charleston. We loaded up all of the kitchen supplies for the Crop Stop 1 and delivered it on Johns Island. The kitchen appliances includes- an oven, a stove top, a stainless steel sink, a drying rack, stainless steel shelves. In order to get the supplies [...]
Before this big Super Bowl weekend, the Studio V team made a huge push out at Crop Stop 1 on John’s Island. The goal; to get they COREtec vinyl flooring installed. The group met early on Friday, loaded up at the shop and headed out to John’s Island. The Installation of the floor was very [...]
During the past weekend we had the opportunity to collaborate with other team members from Clemson and know more about how the design process functions. The design process gives us the opportunity to develop the final product and look for areas of improvement. While we found some problems while constructing the mockup for Cropstop 2, [...]
While half of the studio has been building the freezer door, as talked about in the last post, the other half of us (aka the girls) have started work on the casing for the windows of Crop Stop 1. First, taking dimensions of all the window and door openings, and then sorting through the wood [...]
What a weekend!! Though a tiring weekend, it was so much fun meeting the Solar D team and starting the mock-up construction of Cropstop 2 with the sim[ply] construction method. During the construction we took notes on improvements that can be made for the future Cropstops. The Solar D team also took notes on how [...]
This weekend, our studio along with some of the group members from the Clemson's Solar Decathlon team, worked on constructing the kitchen structure for the Crop Stop 2 project. With a total of 18 hours of daylight, we worked intensively collaborating between three groups. A group of graduate students were giving instructions, noting changes and [...]
This week we have continued getting ready for the team from Clemson that is coming down with the kitchen pieces for Cropstop2. By purchasing the wood for the foundation of the new structure we will be able to finish what is needed for the weekend build. The foundation will consist of 2x12's, 4x4 posts, and [...]