Persevering Through the Problems

As we come back from Fall Break we've hit some snags on our pavilion project: waiting for permits.  Now even though we can't yet break ground that doesn't mean we twiddle our thumbs waiting for something to get done. On our first day back we had some crews put together some more sheets for permitting [...]

Gearing Up For Groundbreaking

After our success with the bridge at the Ardmore site, our entire crew can now fully focus on preparing the final drawings to get started with construction on the Singleton Pavilion. At the beginning of studio we met to run through all of the tasks that needed completing before we break ground on site next [...]

1 Week To Go

We've got one week left of classes to go before finals and we're all hard at work together to finish up the various projects left. Most of Friday was spent in the woodshop, cutting wood to get ready for a trip back to Frierson or working on metal for the bridge at Ardmore. Kevin's butterfly [...]

Spring Break loading….. 50%

T-minus 3 days till Spring break! With the break being right around the corner we are all in full grind, as we have started schematic design. This will lead into our final design. Currently, we have broken into 3 groups of 5. Each group worked with each other Monday and came back together at the [...]

Gherkin Hard or Hardly Gherkin

This week heads are down as we focus on our Individual design review coming up this Friday. For this review there are three main concept of placements of the pavilion: 1.) A centrally located main pavilion 2.) A main pavilion located on the top corners of the site 3.) Multiple locations of small structures (Above [...]

Getting Some Context

This past Friday, our studio got the chance to take a history walk around Charleston with our History and Theory III professor, Michael Maher. Our crew started out at Waterfront Park where Professor Maher gave us some backstory on the expansion of the peninsula over the years. We talked about potential flood zones and how [...]

MURAL MURAL on the wall

(above is an elevation view of what the mural will look like resting in-between the two column bays) With the PLI approaching quickly, the crew has been preparing the CDCC for the event. The studio has broken up into teams. The first one cleaning up around the center and woodshop. The second working towards making name [...]

Home Field [Dis]Advantage

Business as Unusual To our dismay, the physical presence of being in Studio V ended prematurely. Ahead of leaving for home for spring break I was optimistic that we would be back in the C.DCC within a matter of 2 weeks. Its been over a month since I've been back and I only packed one pair [...]

Concrete Pour

"CONCRETE'S HERE!" - Dave Pastre After a long weekend of adjusting the formwork and pumping water again, and again, and maybe again from the rain the site was officially prepped. While all that was going on groups were in the shop working hard to put together the formwork for the "clutter in the gutter" (storage, [...]

One studio. One project

We have finally come together as a united whole. Ryan modeled a compelling pavilion that blends the strengths of the four proposals we had for the previous presentation in terms of form, space, character, and sequence. We agreed to use this scheme as a base to develop the final design. This has given us a [...]