DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
This week, we have been working on our individual design concepts for the development of Stephen Washington Park. It has been interesting to see all the different directions that the studio is pursuing through this design phase. I am in the group that is diving into designs based on integrated development in the playground. We [...]
Design work has officially commenced in Studio V! Today, the class had a discussion recapping our client meeting from last week and the two site strategies that will be explored moving forward -- "In the play area" and "between the play area and baseball". The class was randomly split into these two groups, and as [...]
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 [...]
As of yesterday, all of our purlins have been attached onto our structure, and now we wait for the cedar shake shingles to arrive! As a crew continued to work on setting the purlins, Anna and I headed over to Old Towne Creek with David to work some finishing touches with stain on the donor [...]
Today, the studio made major progress. We’ve officially finished up most of the remaining shop work! The columns, truss, cross bracing, and rafters are all complete, and over half of the purlins have been sanded and stained. We even loaded up the first truckload of pieces to head to the site. All left to do [...]
Over the weekend, the class split into two separate crews. A handful of students finished building the wall at Old Towne Creek, while others began to work on cut-sheets for the pavilion being constructed at Plymouth Park. Those cut sheets were used today to create half-scaled portions of our pavilion's roof truss system. This involved [...]
The studio prioritized time outdoors this weekend... at the worksite! Working Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, our team spent many hours on site this weekend building the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall. On Sunday, some students went back to the site to finish the rafters and purlins while three of us went to the [...]
Today, our studio crew continued to work on assembling the wall addition at Old Towne Creek. We made sure to split ourselves up by task to ensure the work was done in the most efficient manner possible. We started the day by unloading wood planks from Professor Pastre’s pick-up truck and bringing them into the [...]