DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
On Friday we had a special guest, Michael Orcutt, a plan reviewer for Charleston County, come in and give our construction documents a quick look through. He was previously a building inspector, so he has a strong background with building code. As one of only three reviewers for the county, we are very grateful that [...]
This week, unfortunately, David is in the Dominican Republic, where he's probably lying on the beach while we are in the studio doing construction documents. All jokes aside, everyone has been working hard to finish the CDs for sending to the engineer, John. Let's go, TEAM! We divided everyone in the studio to work on [...]
Friday we took some time to determine where we were in the process of being able to produce construction documents. Our goal is to have them done in a timely manner so that we can get as much feedback from John Moore, our structural consultant, as possible. After discussion on larger scale elements within the model, we [...]
Last Friday, the Gathering Ground team discussed a game plan and timeline for modeling the final design in Revit and producing the CD set drawings. Now that we all have access to a central Revit file, one team (Hamilton, Kaden, and Tyler) are working on modeling and laying out the column and deck grid. At [...]
We are hard at work taking the Gathering Ground Pavilion from design to construction documents in Revit. Now that we are all on the same model, we can be very exact with material sizes. This gives us the ability to push and pull the design in a way that allows for cost efficiency and the [...]
Today, we will be officially beginning our Construction Document Phase! Now that we received guidance from engineer John, we have a good idea of some structural changes that need to be implemented moving forward. First on the agenda will be to transition to the software Revit so we can work similar to how most architecture [...]
Yesterday, our class had an in-person presentation to the Conservancy of the Sea Islands Board Members and a Zoom meeting for the people who couldn't attend. It was a very productive meeting; we had many conversations about our design, and great ideas emerged as we discussed it. Kaden and Nolan presented for all 13th of [...]
We've made it! For the past 2 months we have been brain-storming, researching, and sketching to design an interactive landmark for the Conservancy of the Sea Islands as they prepare to establish their center for restoration advocacy across Kiawah, Seabrook, and John's Island. Today is our final presentation where we will meet with board members [...]
We are a day out from our presentation with the Conservancy of the Sea Islands where we will present the final design of the market pavilion! All are hard at work preparing for our meeting. Our team has been in the process of continually narrowing down on the concept, taking our designs from 13 individual [...]
The push for a final design continued on Wednesday. At the start of class, we took our two ideas, one with the path on the outside of the structure and one where the path bisects the structure, and developed them further. Both groups were talking, sketching, and measuring spaces in order to figure out proportions, [...]