We’ve officially started transporting materials to our site! With both beams cut, assembled, stained, and finished, it took the whole studio to get them loaded onto the truck and hauled them out for placement. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gained valuable experience in the shop, and now we’re ready to dive into the next [...]
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Shop Days!
We are well into the process of shop construction for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall! This has been a great experience, learning our way around the shop in the cigar factory and the making and usage of shop drawings. I have enjoyed seeing how things worked and didn't work in the shop drawings that [...]
Continued Assembly of the Old Towne Creek Wall
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 [...]
What’s Your Coffee Spot?
There's two things you should know about me. I love Jesus, and I love coffee. I'll always be down to go grab a cup of coffee, especially if it means we get to check out a new shop! I was born and raised in Charleston, so over the years I've had a chance to try [...]
Awaiting the Structural Greenlight & Beginning Fabrication
As of Tuesday we have sent a CD set to our structural engineer to review and redline. While we await the return of the redlines we are going to determine finalized floorplan iterations for Plymouth Park and begin the fabrication process for the Old Towne Creek project. Once we get the greenlight from a structural [...]
Creating Shop Drawings
For the past week or so in studio, I have been a part of the group that is in charge of creating shop drawing for a project that was started last semester at the Old Towne Creek Park. The shop drawings themselves have been a great learning experience for myself because I get to actually [...]
Fine-Tuning Our Design: Meeting with the Structural Engineer
Yesterday marked a huge milestone for our studio. We had the opportunity to meet with a highly respected structural engineer, diving deep into the mechanics of our truss and cross-bracing systems. Since structure is the backbone of our project, this meeting was very important in refining and elevating our design. We began by reviewing column [...]
Construction Document Production
In the last few days, our studio has split into two groups; one focusing on the structural integrity of the pavilion, and the other focusing on producing construction documents to build the secondary portion of the Community Build studio’s project from last semester. Myself and the others in the CD production group split ourselves up, [...]
Researching Charleston
This week is an exciting one for the Community Build Studio! Today we are meeting with the structural engineer to work on the truss system in our design, and iron out some structural details. Some of the students in the class have started on construction documents and a larger scale connection model of the pavilion [...]
Grind Time before Show Time
Studio V has finally narrowed down on a design... all in due time for our presentation today! The team has been hard at work coordinating, drawing, rendering, and modeling the deliverables within a 24 hour window till review. Four total boards will be presented along with a physical model to the clients of the City [...]