DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
This past weekend, most of the class put in a handful of hours in the studio to keep things on schedule. Some studio members have been working on perfecting the revit model and fixing small issues and errors that we have come across. Others have been correcting the rebar and making adjustments to the concrete [...]
The block party finally occurred after weeks of working on our group installations! We all arrived bright and early to the event space tired but ready to go. My group had to put the finishing touches on our design by sticking all the parts together and lifting it to meet its columns while other groups [...]
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 [...]
Today, the small groups are making a final push for our presentation tomorrow. Tomorrow, each of the three groups must present their pavilion idea to Jason and Rodney from the city, and two community leaders who will critique our designs and provide us with thoughts and feedback. Most groups finished their deliverables over the weekend, [...]
There was actually no glue sniffin... Our group is so close to finishing our individual design! We worked together over the weekend to collect the design deliverables for our presentation to the community which is this Tuesday and Wednesday. Our project focuses on the pavilion and playground connection acting as the “epicenter” of park activity. [...]
This past weekend and Monday, the studio saw a few busy nights of work in preparation for our individual design presentations with the city, this afternoon. Each of us has spent time sketching out several iterations of design concepts, focusing on either the future pavilion’s relationship with the play structure at Steven Washington Park, or [...]
This week marks the transition from collective exploration to individual concept development within our pavilion design project. After having a successful review with Jason and Rodney, we are now taking all of the information and wants from from the city to design our own concept pavilions. The move toward individual concept design represents an important [...]
This week in studio, we shifted our focus toward preparing for Friday’s review. Today, the team worked on organizing the content for our presentation and began developing site scheme designs. The first image shows a set of sketches exploring one of the site scheme ideas. This scheme specifically is focused on researching and designing pathways [...]
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 [...]
Studio has just begun for the semester and this past week we have been diving into site research! On Tuesday, we visited our project site, Stephen Washington Park, where we met with a Department of Parks representative. He shared a brief history of the Park and the Honey Hill community. Since then, we've continued our [...]