DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Up until now studio V has been keeping pretty quiet on the actual design of the community garden pavilion on this blog. I think we all wanted to place the emphasis on process and then to have the last couple blog post dedicated to the "unveiling" of sorts. The last couple weeks, particularly the last [...]
I’d say a 50/50 ratio. This past week we’ve been alternating from working at the shop and at the site. That is, we have been spending half of our time building the components of the pavilion in the shop and half of our time prepping the site for construction. The idea is that by performing [...]
It all starts somewhere. For us that somewhere started with a few strings and a little orange paint to denote the area of our site. That's all it took for the community to take interest. By 9 AM on Monday morning the first visitor stopped by, Melvin. A man who had spent a large portion [...]
Now that we’re nearing the end of our construction document phase and moving into construction, I’ve been considering the unique lessons that design/build can teach you that the conventional studio system cannot. One such lesson that has become clear to me over these last few days is one of accountability. Accountability is crucial in any [...]
Last night and this morning began with a night of building. We finally began constructing the mock-up. Yiwen and myself worked on building the post to girder to beam detail at 1:1. After a night of coordinating to buy a couple extra pieces: the corrugated roofing, hardware, and an extra piece of framing; we set [...]
In Tom Wait's spoken word, he takes the perspective of a man who spends every night watching his neighbor, questioning his life style, questioning his morals. "What is he building in there? What the hell is he building in there?" As an onlooker, the man's mind begins to wonder and finally resolves itself to the [...]
Solid, useful, and beautiful. Such are the three Vitruvian principles – the filter though which a building can be analyzed to determine its degree of success or failure. How can a building be structurally sound... as well as support its use... while also exhibiting beauty? Can these three seemingly conflicting ideas be melded into one? [...]
A couple of years ago I was having a conversation with my wife Amy about what, I can't remember. She was telling me something and used the wrong word in her description and I couldn't help myself and corrected her mid sentence. What I do remember about that conversation was her response to my suggestion [...]
Over the weekend we – the five members of Studio V – have been finalizing our site analysis. This is the time to focus and to refine the research, diagrams, and precedents we have been working on over the past two weeks. You may ask, “Why this concluding note?” On Wednesday we will be giving [...]
With my first post I'm not particularly interested in rehashing today's events with you, or even my list of ideas, though that will eventually come with time. Right now I want to discuss the meaning of this project, what good will come from it, and who it affects, after all that's why five students have [...]