DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
This week we were finally able to complete the casing and the door, but as we did we learned some valuable lessons. Lesson 1: Always check the levels of sawdust in the sawdust collector bags before staring work. Lesson 2: Check the blade before cutting your wood, because someone might have used a different blade [...]
This weekend, our studio along with some of the group members from the Clemson's Solar Decathlon team, worked on constructing the kitchen structure for the Crop Stop 2 project. With a total of 18 hours of daylight, we worked intensively collaborating between three groups. A group of graduate students were giving instructions, noting changes and [...]
This week we have continued getting ready for the team from Clemson that is coming down with the kitchen pieces for Cropstop2. By purchasing the wood for the foundation of the new structure we will be able to finish what is needed for the weekend build. The foundation will consist of 2x12's, 4x4 posts, and [...]
3D model in Revit Elevations of each wall Separately from the Mystery Mockup, but still very much connected to it in the methodology, is the full spectrum of the interior to the Solar Decathlon cabinetry. While the mockup was altered slightly to test every element of the cabinets that needed to be tested, the full [...]
The studio was once again split up into smaller teams to finish us the semester. A small group of the Crop Stop team went to Greenville to finishing up the build. The remainder of the studio stayed in Charleston, one half doing construction drawings and worked on the mock up, and the other half hashing out [...]
At this phase, studio in Charleston have already finished most main structure components cutting and their primer paint process. The remaining parts are ramp and stair frame. Everyone anticipated into at least one step of measure-cut-primer work flow. Everyone developed a set of their "paint clothes". Thinking about this Friday we will go to our site [...]
Well, we've gone and done it again, the studio has split in two. The simultaneous development between the Crop Stop and the Decathlon cabinetry is crucial at this stage, since we are working up to our porch build in Greenville next week, and the Cabinet mock up in the weeks that follow that. The cabinetry design [...]
This weekend, Studio V began its first construction mock and building assembly to figure out design details and construction methods. We needed to test out all the kinks in the design and practice putting materials together in order to improve efficiency before we go to Greenville and build our final structure. For our mock assembly, [...]
Charleston has been gloomy for what seems like a week now. Studio V has been wrestling with the deceptively colossal task of taking a hard look at critiques on our "final" design from Friday in concert with working out the hard-fast details to come up with a final-final design over the weekend and through studio [...]
While the immediate, semester-long goal of Studio V is to design and produce a fully functioning Crop Stop unit for deployment in Greenville County, our studio's responsibility's also extend to Clemson's Solar Decathlon studio. As we act in concert, using their construction methods to build our Crop Stop, we are in turn designing the fabrication [...]