DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Everyone is hard at work getting material counts and final designs completed. The walls, trellis, benches, and shelves are being designed down to the hardware choices so they can be done before we start mock-ups. For the rest of the structure, we are pulling material counts in order to do shop drawings and an updated [...]
Not to be confused with PEMDAS, we’re currently figuring out the most efficient use of our time while we wait for the next steps of the project. Since we are waiting on the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding - a fun part of the legal process that we got to learn about) and the permits to [...]
We are hard at work taking the Gathering Ground Pavilion from design to construction documents in Revit. Now that we are all on the same model, we can be very exact with material sizes. This gives us the ability to push and pull the design in a way that allows for cost efficiency and the [...]
Tomorrow is the Reynolds Avenue Homecoming event for our Intro to Craft class. The groups have been working hard this week to produce cardboard installations, graphics, and signage for this event. My group has been working on an installation that draws from the ropemaking traditions of historic Charleston, and the sensory experience of light, to [...]
As we have been working through our small group design phase, the buzzword in the studio has been "iterate". We are all trying to work through this repetitive phase of communicating design ideas, combining perspectives, narrowing down a design goal and narrative, and iterating through variations of these concepts to create the best possible solution [...]
This week, studio made significant progress on the Plymouth Park pavilion. Today, we completed the half-scale model of the truss system, letting us do a test run of construction to learn from and better understand how the structure comes together. This not only helped us refine our construction process, but also prepared us for the [...]
In the Community Build studio, the beginning of February has been eventful. We are currently moving towards a February 18th deadline as we work to synthesize our many ideas and narrow down our final group design to be proposed to the city. Most of the studio met yesterday to compare sketches and study models, then [...]
We just sent out our CD set on Friday! This week, we will move forward this week by putting together our shop drawings, learning how to weld, and going out to our site to re-lay our slab. Soon we will break ground and level out our site. It won't be long before we are bending [...]
With the shop now in order and the bulk of the formwork complete, the Community Build Studio is ready to take on some of the prefabrication of the framing elements. While David continues to make the necessary arrangements for our permitting and subsequent groundbreaking, the framing members will start to be cut and organized to [...]
It was all smiles in studio on Friday as the crew geared up for what will be exciting week beginning site work. Studio began with the group gathering to review potential color schemes for painting the pavilion. Everyone has been working hard in their individual groups this week to prepare for finally breaking ground this [...]