DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Starting the afternoon with Duck Donuts (shout out Malu and her firm Coast Architects) and a short standup, we all started work on getting the finishing touches of our research and precedent presentation together. Site analysis, local history, and precedent studies are all deep in research for a comprehensive display to the Conservancy of the [...]
Tomorrow is the Reynolds Avenue Homecoming event for our Intro to Craft class. The groups have been working hard this week to produce cardboard installations, graphics, and signage for this event. My group has been working on an installation that draws from the ropemaking traditions of historic Charleston, and the sensory experience of light, to [...]
This week in studio is all about working together as a small group to come up with another pavilion design, which will ultimately provide us with another round of critiques before moving forward with a final design for a new park structure at Stephen Washington Park. I've been teamed up with Madison and Jake, and [...]
This past weekend and Monday, the studio saw a few busy nights of work in preparation for our individual design presentations with the city, this afternoon. Each of us has spent time sketching out several iterations of design concepts, focusing on either the future pavilion’s relationship with the play structure at Steven Washington Park, or [...]
This week, we have been working on our individual design concepts for the development of Stephen Washington Park. It has been interesting to see all the different directions that the studio is pursuing through this design phase. I am in the group that is diving into designs based on integrated development in the playground. We [...]
This week marks the transition from collective exploration to individual concept development within our pavilion design project. After having a successful review with Jason and Rodney, we are now taking all of the information and wants from from the city to design our own concept pavilions. The move toward individual concept design represents an important [...]
Studio has just begun for the semester and this past week we have been diving into site research! On Tuesday, we visited our project site, Stephen Washington Park, where we met with a Department of Parks representative. He shared a brief history of the Park and the Honey Hill community. Since then, we've continued our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This week marked a significant milestone in our community build project: we completed the foundation work! This step is essential in any construction project, setting the groundwork—quite literally—for everything that will be built on top. Here’s a look at the process we followed and what it took to bring this foundation to life. 1. Excavation [...]