DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
With the Spring Cleaning phase coming to an end, only a handful of projects remain to be finished. The tallest task among the remaining cleanups includes the project at Stephen Washington Park. The crew responsible for this project must finish their design solution to comply with ADA codes. At this pavilion, there are a couple [...]
The studio held our final review for the semester today, gathering faculty, staff, students, and community members under our pavilion. Even though the structure isn’t fully complete, it was exciting to share the project and see the enthusiasm the community and city had for it. The review felt less like a critique and more like [...]
For the past little while the class has been on site, rushing to get everything built for Wednesday. Over the weekend, all the furniture was welded, grinded, and painted. Additionally, the central columns were placed, and the central beams were installed. Today, we put up the outer columns, which was followed by the outer beams [...]
After coming back from Thanksgiving break, our studio is focused on finishing up our build work in the shop so that we can start assembling on site. Right now, we're working to finish the columns; we've cut them, drilled the holes for bolts, cut a slot for knife plate connections, and have put on our [...]
This weekend, the girls and guys split up to tackle both the LVL beams and the rebar for the concrete piers. The girls began by dimensioning the LVLs and marking the screw pattern, a task that took much longer than expected on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, we focused on screwing the LVLs together, adding [...]
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 [...]
This week in studio, we've been preparing for our first concrete pour which will be for our pavilion's slab. We've spent the weekend and the early parts of. this week prepping our site by digging out the area that the slab will be in, and then laying out the rebar. We've also had a crew [...]