DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Good afternoon and happy Solid Orange Friday friends of Studio V! As we finish sewing up the last details of the ole Crop Stop mock-up, myself and the rest of the skeleton crew steering this operation out here on the front have found ourselves smack in the middle of a great lesson to be gleaned [...]
The cats are away, as the proverb goes... Tigers in this case.
This weekend, Studio V began its first construction mock and building assembly to figure out design details and construction methods. We needed to test out all the kinks in the design and practice putting materials together in order to improve efficiency before we go to Greenville and build our final structure. For our mock assembly, [...]
While the studio is being temporarily split into two groups to focus on both the crop stop and the solar decathlon cabinetry, both groups are working on finding solutions to detailing. Working through details can be a daunting task when looking through the lens of firmness, commodity and delight. There are a multitude of possibilities in [...]
Innovation isn't necessarily in being cutting edge in technology or ideas!!! True, that fancy new solar panel or smart wall membrane can have a heavy affect on building performance, but not every project has the budget for high level products. In our Solar Decathlon cabinets, we have to push the idea of innovation as far [...]
Today's studio session was greeted by a prompting from Professor Pastre for a spontaneous field study, which was a welcome idea on such a beautiful day. The purpose of this field trip was to study a very specific set of cabinets that had various similarities to the set that we are trying to formulate for [...]
Charleston has been gloomy for what seems like a week now. Studio V has been wrestling with the deceptively colossal task of taking a hard look at critiques on our "final" design from Friday in concert with working out the hard-fast details to come up with a final-final design over the weekend and through studio [...]
While the immediate, semester-long goal of Studio V is to design and produce a fully functioning Crop Stop unit for deployment in Greenville County, our studio's responsibility's also extend to Clemson's Solar Decathlon studio. As we act in concert, using their construction methods to build our Crop Stop, we are in turn designing the fabrication [...]
After both studio groups presented our ideas, we have consolidated the two proposals and are now working on one design. Kathy Calvin, the President and CEO of United Nations Foundation once said, “ There is power in individuals, and now we’re learning there is power in individuals coming together.”After agreeing on a simplified floor plan, [...]
With the approach of the final design for the Greenville build fast approaching, 2d drawings and diagrams alone were no longer cutting it for the level of design depth we wanted. Moving into SketchUp massing studies, we were better able to evaluate in the larger groups how the program, circulation, entry sequence, and roof were working [...]