DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
With just one night until our final design review, it was all hands-on deck to put the finishing touches on our concept and presentation. We’ve spent the last few days divided into two groups, consulting one another along the way. Team A’s focus was the logistics of the structure as well as the digital model, [...]
Yesterday we met with the city and the Charleston Parks Conservancy to get some preliminary feedback on our small group designs. We got some great feedback from them on big picture items such as potential site placement and structure. On Monday, September 27th, we will be attending the Ardmore-Sherwood Forrest neighborhood Association to introduce the project [...]
Wednesday in studio we continued working towards our Monday deadline – the Ardmore Sherwood Forest neighborhood association meeting. This point in the semester is critical as we continue to develop ideas individually, and in small groups. It is always challenging to morph together individual design ideas in a cohesive manner, making sure everyone’s voice is [...]
Last week, the studio decided to divide the East side of the site into three different sections because of the many possible opportunities in the area. Each person was responsible for making a site plan of the future site, incorporating the pavilion in their designated section, and how secondary paths may look within their area. [...]
One of the electives that many of us in the design-build studio take is David Pastre’s Intro to Craft course. This class introduces us to design as informed by craft through a series of hands-on labs where we learn basic craft operations and material properties. For our first assignment, we were tasked with building a [...]
As the first full week of the semester progressed, we continued to prepare for our Friday meeting with Jason Kronsberg, Director of Parks in the City of Charleston. Each team delved further into their research and the corresponding graphic components needed for the presentation. The new students focused specifically on site research to familiarize themselves [...]
Before we could actually pour the concrete pads and path for the bridge, we had to dig out the earth for it. After a long day of shovelling dirt, dirt, and more dirt for the concrete pads that would be at the small bridge and one side of the main bridge, we decided that borrowing [...]
The team spent the last two days on a footbridge that will be used to cross the drainage ditch on the north end of our site. Solving this issue was the last piece needed to connect Mulberry Street and the surrounding neighborhood to the West Ashley Bikeway! Much like our larger bridge, we wanted to [...]
Our first Saturday workday is officially in the books! We headed out to site at 8am in hopes of waking up before the bugs, but no such luck. We split into two teams – girls on landscape cleanup and boys on foundation layout. Nothing like a little friendly competition to get the job done. Now [...]
A few of us got our hands dirty on-site during studio on Wednesday and the rest of the crew stayed back to keep working on the roof design. The roof design is wrapping up and is looking great. A couple of us will be heading out to the site again tomorrow to finish up cleaning [...]