DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
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 [...]
From kicking off our studio project to wrapping up spring cleaning, there has been a lot of excitement over the past couple days in studio. On Thursday, we travelled to Kiawah for a first look at our site for the year. It was exciting to finally see it in person and walk the paths that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As we have been working through our small group design phase, the buzzword in the studio has been "iterate". We are all trying to work through this repetitive phase of communicating design ideas, combining perspectives, narrowing down a design goal and narrative, and iterating through variations of these concepts to create the best possible solution [...]
After meeting with city of Charleston representatives, we split ourselves into groups on Friday to divide a handful of tasks amongst ourselves. Some of our classmates studied the history of Steven Washington Park, others studied the community demographics, and others focused on precedent studies. Myself and two others tasked ourselves with measuring everything on the [...]
Great progress has been made on the site with the installation of all the rafters and almost all of the purlins. The rafter installation process went relatively smooth with only a few cross-brace systems needing to be shaved down due to having too tight of a fit. Other than those slight adjustments here and there, [...]