DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Thursday, Charleston County Buildings Inspector Director Carl Simmons came by the shop to inspect studio v's crop stop kitchen. Unfortunately, none of us could be there because we all had class, but professor Pastre reported to us afterwards that Mr. Simmons gave us a thumbs up on all of our framing and the go ahead [...]
The students of Studio V, with a LOT of help and guidance from Professor Pastre I must say, have been keeping busy on the build for over a month now. The build has been running pretty smoothly as of late, with much progress made through the weekend and up to today. We have the whole [...]
We made a good amount of progress over the weekend on the kitchen. We finished installing all of the roof trusses, added our flying trusses off the ends of the building, and put our sheathing on the roof. The rain stayed away just long enough for us to finish. Nolan and I were [...]
One of the great things about being in the design-build studio, this semester, is that we get to spend most of our time outside for the construction phase. However, for the past few weeks, Charleston has been plagued by record amounts of pollen. The worst of which is falling from Pine, Oak, and Sweetgum trees, according to The [...]
As Studio V learned the hard way yesterday we are bound to make mistakes. This project is most of our first building and construction experience. The building level is amateur for most of us and mistakes are bound to happen. The real key for Studio V is to learn from the setbacks and keep moving [...]
Our dogtrot is one of the coolest features of our kitchen design. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to install it yet because our Cypress wood has been held up in Atlanta until Friday. For the dogtrot, we will install cypress for the decking, walls, and ceiling. I especially look forward to that "punched out" feeling [...]
Like the past month studio V could feel the March madness. The build have continued to move along and the drawings are on the way to the building permit office. March was the start of spring and some warmer weekends. The schedule of the build started to fall on weekends, the kitchen started to take [...]
It's the beginning of the week and things are about to be back in full swing. There will be lots for us to do going forward. Over the weekend we were able to get the all of the walls attached and squared up, sheeted, and then the roof plates were installed. Due to unforeseen delays, [...]
Thanks to our teacher's help with the framing details for the chassis (and by help I mean complete overhaul of the original documents) we have completed the framing for all walls in the Crop Stop. After all the walls were standing, wouldn't you know that they all fit together! Usually when I make things by [...]
The wall frames are up and it's finally time to give the CropStop some skin! For the last couple of weeks, it's been a little frustrating to deal with our learning curve when it comes to building structurally sound floor supports and wall frames. We've put them together and taken them apart so many times that [...]