DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
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 [...]
FINALLY STARTING - with a late start to our schedule we have to kick it in gear and get working fast. Last Wednesday marked the official start of our studio with shop training! David provided us with an overview to get us ready to complete Singleton. We all came out with our beautifully crafted and [...]
This weekend was a very productive weekend for the team. As mentioned before we have been split into separate teams, the site team and the shop team. This weekend the site team focused on putting up the remaining gables and installing part of the beltline. Saturday, we finished assembling the gables and then putting them [...]
Starting yesterday, we decided to work in groups on a shift basis to be efficient with our times. Crews were determined based on their class schedules yesterday. Several students had a meeting for a mentorship class between noon and 1.00. We kicked off the day with a crew starting to paint and another crew cutting, [...]
This weekend the community Build studio split up into two groups, team "mock up" and team "site lines". Team Mock up worked in the shop preforming welds, angle grinding, and wood cutting to assemble a mock up of our trellis design. Pictured below is a full scale mock up of a portion of the trellis [...]
I may be biased, but one of the best parts of any design work is the sketching. Especially on trace paper. There is something amazing about layering sketch upon sketch to diagram out a space or a sectional idea until it morphs into a realized design. Most groups have been using this technique as a [...]
Today, as an initiative to give the students of Edith L. Frierson Elementary the exposure to architecture and design, we drove out to Frierson Elementary and helped the 4th and 5th grade kids to build a structure. The students quickly became familiar with the system, and built this amazing small little room. They split up [...]