DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
It's been busy in the shop. On Friday, we welded one of the overhead steel bays to completion. This was originally our mockup, which turned out well that it will now become one of the final bays! Throughout the process, we learned a lot about how to improve our workflow. We realized that the bay [...]
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 [...]
Today’s class was spent at the presentation of the Homecoming project the undergraduates designed for a community. It was a pleasure to see their ideas and to hear how they developed the concept behind them. Afterward, we split into groups to help turn their designs into pieces we could fabricate for our ITC class. That [...]
As we're all working away in the woodshop I see this framed photo of Norm Abram in the office that takes me back to watching This Old House with my mom growing up, learning how to do all the same stuff we're doing in the woodshop now. Just a good reminder as to why I [...]
The studio had a nice fall break Monday and Tuesday... Wish that could last longer but --> Back to work!! Before we left for fall break last Friday we painted lots of our boards with one of our colors: French Toast. We spent a lot of time deciding the color palette for our walls/structure/trellis. We [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
We finally finished preparing everything to take to the site at Stephen Washington Park. A group headed out early in the morning to drill the table we had prefabricated in the shop and luckily, everything fit and worked exactly as planned!!! We also had a bit of fun in the kids' park since it was [...]
Weld-erful things continue in the shop this week as we continue to shift from the digital realm to physical fabrication. Yesterday we continued to practice our metalworking and welding fabrication skills, getting more comfortable in the hot seat. Some of us also began to cut out/mill components we will be welding together as part of [...]
This week, unfortunately, David is in the Dominican Republic, where he's probably lying on the beach while we are in the studio doing construction documents. All jokes aside, everyone has been working hard to finish the CDs for sending to the engineer, John. Let's go, TEAM! We divided everyone in the studio to work on [...]