After meeting briefly at the start of studio to discuss what feedback that we received on Monday at the review; the studio decided that more emphasis needed to be placed on the bridge’s sculptural impact on the site. This decision was followed by an hour and a half design charrette where each of the students [...]
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Make the most of your Charrettes.
Good morning everyone, it's Friday! That means final design charrette day with Studio V A+CB. Our design / build team is meeting up this afternoon to have a good ol' fashioned design charrette for our Forest Park Bridge repair project. We've gotten a lot of great feedback from the Parks Conservancy and many other of [...]
A(bridge)d Meeting Minutes
Yesterday our studio met with various staff members from the Charleston Parks Conservancy to discuss our 3 proposals for a bridge at Forest Park. After each group spent some time burning the midnight oil, we were more than ready to present our new ideas. Team alpha was first to go and yes, we decided that [...]
(Re)defining the Architecture – Horticulture Center
Studio-V has adjusted differently this semester by correlating between virtual and in-person sessions. As we continue to practice social distancing, we are slowly starting to see the studio culture come back to life. Students are back at the CDC and are working hard at designing a new bridge for Forest Park within West Ashley. At [...]
Students working in the studio again, you will be amazed! Click here to read why
Now that you have fallen for the click bait title, a quick reflection on current progress in Studio V. With the studio being physically open for us to work in (for those who chose to head in) some of the usual sights and scenes of schematic development are starting to take place, such as used [...]
Let the Schemes Begin
Heading into the end of this week, we have both the project type and project site established. The studio is now tasked with individually brainstorming as many different iterations of bridge schemes for placement at Forrest Park, which will discuss in class later today. The process of designing this pedestrian bridge begins separately, but as [...]
Trellis(h) in the moment.
On a crisp and cool Sunday morning you can't beat sipping a cappuccino while looking for inspiration at the Magnolia Community Garden. Today's featured image is a vegetable trellis structure for growing - I decided to snap a photo for future reference in studio. This past week my studio partner, Caleb, and I have explored [...]
Further Iterations
As the final week before our (hopeful) return to in-person instruction begins, all the groups have continued their detailed iterations and explorations of different site strategies for the future headquarters of the Charleston Parks Conservancy. Designs are starting to narrow, and have become more developed illustrating viable options for the Conservancy to consider. Each group [...]
First The Chalkboard, Then The Whiteboard, Then The SMART Board, Now: Miro
Although in-person classes are now less than two weeks away, we are still finding new ways to share our work digitally. I never thought I would be completing the fourth year of my architecture degree online, but in the face of a global pandemic safety is top priority. It seems like we become more immersed [...]
Charleston Area Conservancy: Program Considerations
There is the argument that programming is a completely different topic than design - and in many ways it is. We had a fabulous discussion on Fridays review about what the conservancy values with high priority and what is not so important. Based upon Mondays class discussion here are some of the programmatic elements that [...]