DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
This past Monday, we returned to our brainstorming and iterative process. After debriefing from Friday’s trip to the conservancy where we had discussion and received feedback, we took time to clearly identify both the strengths and weaknesses of each of the four concepts. We made a list of what was working and what wasn’t so [...]
I’m working with Kaden and Kylee, and we’re putting the final touches on our design. Our project focuses on creating a boardwalk with sweet grass basket stands, all housed under a single continuous roof. The overall concept in our design has come together really well, but the roof has definitely been the most challenging part. [...]
Yesterday in the studio, we took our design further. We got to present our individual designs to our Professor David Pastre, who guided us through the process of creating a better design idea for our presentation on Friday. It is really interesting to see everyone's designs become more defined through criticism and iterations. Photo of [...]
Coming off of our "heavy" snow weekend, we are continuing to produce individual schematic iterations of sweetgrass basket stands. Drawing on feedback from our meeting with Dolphin Architects, the Sea Island Conservancy, and our artisan representative, Corey, our team has divided our areas of focus into three categories. The first being a layout of stands [...]
Post first meeting with the council from Dolphin Architects, the Sea Islands Conservancy and the Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce representative Cory, we started site plan iterations for where the best locations for our stands would be. Some considerations driving these plans being visibility from the street/entrance, incorporation into nature and accessibility. With 3-5 iterations per [...]
Today we kicked off our year-long project with a collaborative presentation between the Historic Preservation students and the Community + Build studio, sharing our work with project partners in the forum. We had a group join both in person and via Zoom, helping guide an early discussion that will shape the design process moving forward. [...]
With spring cleaning complete and the initial site visit for this semester's sweetgrass stand project concluded, students now pivot to compiling project information, research, and precedent studies for their upcoming presentation on Wednesday. Both the architecture students and historic preservation students are currently collaborating to make this happen. All hands on deck! While everybody is [...]
This week has been eventful! As Anna discussed, we poured our concrete slab this week. The process was fascinating, and really fun to be part of! Back in the shop, a group of us finished building the formwork for our concrete piers. After we remove the formwork from the slab, we will install this formwork [...]
Today in studio we received some feedback from our structural engineer, John Moore, on the CD set we had sent to him for his approval. John sent us back some of our sheets with his own markups, indicating elements that needed to change or be adjusted. A lot of the comments that were discussed today [...]
Yesterday we got the chance to have our final design review with the community and the city! The community was very excited to see their park highlighted and embraced with a contemporary and playful pavilion. Below is two images of our physical model where you can see our design a little bit clearer, there were [...]