DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As we're all working away in the woodshop I see this framed photo of Norm Abram in the office that takes me back to watching This Old House with my mom growing up, learning how to do all the same stuff we're doing in the woodshop now. Just a good reminder as to why I [...]
The studio had a nice fall break Monday and Tuesday... Wish that could last longer but --> Back to work!! Before we left for fall break last Friday we painted lots of our boards with one of our colors: French Toast. We spent a lot of time deciding the color palette for our walls/structure/trellis. We [...]
A quick week recap as we go into fall break! This past week, our steel team has been hard at work preparing the steel elements for the trellis. The process has been cutting all the metal down to size, punching holes in the parts that get connected to the columns, brushing/grinding off all the rust [...]
After selecting our paint colors based on how the gathering ground renderings looked, we purchased paint samples and tested each of them out on some scrap pieces of plywood. To get the proper color "experience", we went outside into the sunlight and compared each of the color samples with each other and some of [...]
Happy humpday and birthday-eve for myself and Vivan. Let's hit a humpday recap of our week so far. The team worked hard over the weekend to get everything ready to hit the ground running this week. On Monday, we finished priming our wooden [...]
We had quite the eventful weekend in the shop. Let's recap! FRIDAY: Our shipment of wood came in, so we brought it inside like ants. We #elevated it onto some excellently laid-out wood boards, thanks to Tyler. One team went straight to cutting and milling the wood, while the rest of us wire-brushed all of [...]
These past few weeks we have had several projects in the works, everyone contributing at some point. I have been helping with the design of the walls from the market stalls, focusing on the connection points and transparency of these walls through physical model making. . The process started in a small 2’x2’ mockup just [...]
Last week, David spoke with the hot dip galvanizing people, and they informed us that they think the frame as we have it designed currently, will warp once it is dipped. To avoid this, we are looking at a small design change that uses pre-galvanized pieces and using as many bolted connections as possible. This [...]
Last week was a big week for us. We got to go onto site for the first time since last semester, we finalized some final design elements, and we got to use the shop to build some models! In order to decide what designs we wanted to choose for the trellis and moveable walls, we [...]
Everyone has their part to play in finalizing the various details of our design before construction begins. Whether be iterations for the trellis, storage benches or display walls. Over the weekend some were working on more iterations based on discussion from Friday, while others were model making to flush out the logistics of the designs. [...]