DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Thursday and Friday Recap! I'm going to throw it back to late last week when the crews were rolling along, knocking things out, and getting it done. The welding crew were hard at work finishing the last of the wall panels while the rest of the steel crew were working on setting up the overhead [...]
It was a busy day for us down in the shop. The day had come. No, not the day we break ground, but the day that we finally received our thermally modified pine for our wall panels. The pallet of materials was dropped off outside in the morning, and we brought it all inside to [...]
During Friday's studio, we were joined by Matt who has been helping us prepare CNC files for the wall members. Up until now, Matt has taken the lead in test cuts and managing the CNC, however, during Friday's class he took time to teach a group of us how to operate the machine. We went [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Good news! The MOU has been completed! We are now chugging along to finish up these last few design options and hope to get materials ordered, shop drawings started, and get into fabrication and on-site work ASAP. For the group working on the pavilion’s walls, we were able to come together and develop a pattern [...]
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. [...]