DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Today we worked as a studio to pick paint colors for the project. I 3D modeled the pavilion in Sketchup and also had it rendered in Lumion which helped us visualize the project. Using paint colors from Benjamin Moore, we went through a variety of colors and palettes to create a bunch of different options [...]
We had quite the eventful weekend in the shop. Let's recap! FRIDAY: Our shipment of wood came in, so we brought it inside like ants. We #elevated it onto some excellently laid-out wood boards, thanks to Tyler. One team went straight to cutting and milling the wood, while the rest of us wire-brushed all of [...]
After completing a first mockup of one of the ten partition walls in the project, we realized staying consistent with dado cuts (slots) in the wooden members composing the walls was difficult. With the recent addition of a three-axis CNC (essentially a robot for carving wood) in the shop, we decided to take a digital [...]
These past few weeks we have had several projects in the works, everyone contributing at some point. I have been helping with the design of the walls from the market stalls, focusing on the connection points and transparency of these walls through physical model making. . The process started in a small 2’x2’ mockup just [...]
Hi, Today we split the group in half. Group One : went on site to re-flag the pavilion with our new adjusted orientation and positioning of our structure. From our first try we noticed that our ramp was angling your body towards the tree along the path so we went back on our model and [...]
Last week, David spoke with the hot dip galvanizing people, and they informed us that they think the frame as we have it designed currently, will warp once it is dipped. To avoid this, we are looking at a small design change that uses pre-galvanized pieces and using as many bolted connections as possible. This [...]
Good news! The MOU has been completed! We are now chugging along to finish up these last few design options and hope to get materials ordered, shop drawings started, and get into fabrication and on-site work ASAP. For the group working on the pavilion’s walls, we were able to come together and develop a pattern [...]
Last week was a big week for us. We got to go onto site for the first time since last semester, we finalized some final design elements, and we got to use the shop to build some models! In order to decide what designs we wanted to choose for the trellis and moveable walls, we [...]
First day on-site! Our project must "Go West" just like the objectively great Village People song. Or, more accurately, orient west, due west to be precise. After identifying reference trees and using triangulation to spray paint column locations, we realized the pavilion needed to shift location slightly north from what was originally marked on the [...]
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. [...]