DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Well, I was supposed to post the Friday before Spring Break, but apparently I was already mentally checked out! So enjoy the photo I took while relaxing at Lake Jocassee up in Clemson... Before the end of class Friday, we had quickly revised our final design slide show and gave a shot at a practice [...]
We've made it! For the past 2 months we have been brain-storming, researching, and sketching to design an interactive landmark for the Conservancy of the Sea Islands as they prepare to establish their center for restoration advocacy across Kiawah, Seabrook, and John's Island. Today is our final presentation where we will meet with board members [...]
We are a day out from our presentation with the Conservancy of the Sea Islands where we will present the final design of the market pavilion! All are hard at work preparing for our meeting. Our team has been in the process of continually narrowing down on the concept, taking our designs from 13 individual [...]
Friday was an important day for the studio. As our Wednesday final presentation deadline approaches, we needed to make some pivotal design decisions as a group to give us headway going into the weekend. We began studio with focusing on either a shed or gabled roof idea digitally modeled, and then shared them with one [...]
Today we had our Community 1:1 book discussion at Kudu Cafe downtown. We talked about the last chapters of Raising the Bar and Let My People Go Surfing. A lot of the conversation ended up being about values, culture, and lifestyle, and what we would want if we ever started our own company or became [...]
Yesterday, each of the four groups fiercely competed to convince the Conservancy of the Sea Islands that their project is the best and that theirs is the one that needs to be built... Not really. We had a great discussion about the productively diverse designs to narrow down towards the last design, which is our [...]
Hello, again! Somehow I am always reporting on the day of a big review. Nevertheless, we've made it. After designing our own concepts and presenting them to the Conservancy, we now present to them our small group designs. As I'm sure you've seen, the models have been going up and final touches on plans and [...]
I don't know why my blog post always seems to fall just before review, but it does! On Wednesday, we will be presenting our small group designs to the Kiawah Conservancy (now called the Conservancy of the Sea Islands). I've been working with Nate and Tyler on a design incorporating a trailhead, educational/social pavilion, and [...]
Kaden was correct! I will tell you what had happened in our Friday review for our studios individual designs. These reviews serve more as client meetings than anything, meaning that what we gather from it to continue our efforts toward one cohesive design for the semester is arguably more important than what our partners at [...]
To kick off the semester, the new Community-Build studio spent the last week exploring our site at Plymouth Park and the city of Charleston as a whole to understand the entire context of where we’ll all be working and building. Located in the Riverland Terrace community, Plymouth Park serves as a local gathering point with [...]