DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As we still await the go-to to break ground on site, this week is looking promising (cross your fingers). In the meantime though, we have officially completed all major structural components of the build and now we are working on the walls, the sliding doors, and we will be starting the built ins! Even though [...]
Disclaimer: I'm not getting spiritual on you all with this title (iykyk); however, I deem it fitting for today's discussion and objective. Today we worked on and further developed our ITC project, which is to design and build a functioning lamp using either casting, laminated wood, or a combination of both. Towards the end of [...]
Today the architecture students at the Clemson Design Center in Charleston took a field trip to historic Savannah, Georgia. This was an exciting trip as I, personally, haven’t been on a field trip since undergrad. Savannah is a great city with a rich history and culture that we were able to experience today, some of [...]
Over this weekend we spent time to further prepare for our build on site. If everything is cut and drilled correctly, it should all come together relatively quickly. This week has been spent working on our 6x6 columns and our 2x10 elements throughout the build. With drawings in hand, we have been hard at work [...]
Over the past few days, we have been slowly getting prepared for the building of our pavilion. In order to be efficient and organized we started our class Friday by cleaning up the woodshop. There have been multiple projects taking place in the shop so it was pretty messy. Everyone jumped in to help put [...]
Eye Tee Cee. It's one of our courses, ITC (Intro to Craft), and it saw an influx of students working diligently and vigorously on our projects over our Fall Break. Typically, Fall Break is a time to relax, regroup and get our minds right for the remainder of the semester. Not us though (well, some [...]
To wrap up this week, we’ve been working in the shop most nights on cutting down material for formwork then assembling them. The process of cutting the material down and getting them ready to assemble started off rough but we now have a system in place to make things go more smoothly. For our ITC [...]
Today was a busy day in the shop. As a recap, half of the students in the ITC class are working on a model staircase project which is meant to be a lesson on bent wood laminations and complex formwork needed to build them. My team was hard at work over the weekend and today, [...]
Over the weekend, we cut the melamine sheets that will be used as formwork for the concrete piers in the pavilion. We used 'Table saw', 'Band saw', and 'Circular saw' to cut the sheets. We carried on doing that on Monday and completed the cutting. Today, we brought the vibrant murals from the former garden [...]
Where to begin? As we are inches away from starting on site, there are so many things that need to be done before we can start. First off, we need a string plan. What is a string plan you ask? It's a sheet that David asked for and when someone asked him to look at [...]