While the end goal of this iteration of Crop Stop sits squarely within Greenville County, the vision of Studio V spans the area of the continental United States: Studio V spent this week investigating the viability of the Crop Stop concept through six lenses of customization across the various regions of the US. Having been [...]
Tag: Community Garden
Nickel on a string
Do you find yourself dropping your nickels? We did, and so we came up with this really ingenious idea. By drilling a hole in the nickel and tying it to a string so that you can fasten it to your belt. Silly? I think not. So after another long day of work, we were able to [...]
Today, we got yet another review under our belts. These reviews are always helpful, and it seems as though the information and feedback continues to increase as more people begin to wrap their minds around this project. Of course, all feedback is good feedback and we appreciate the ones that were able to make it [...]
What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been
What more can be said about this semester that hasn't already been discussed? It has been 3 months of hard, time consuming work. I sit here a senior of the Clemson School of Architecture, now in my last semester, and I can't count where the minutes went. I imagine most of it was somewhere between [...]
A Balancing Act
I’d say a 50/50 ratio. This past week we’ve been alternating from working at the shop and at the site. That is, we have been spending half of our time building the components of the pavilion in the shop and half of our time prepping the site for construction. The idea is that by performing [...]
Please Allow Us to Pique Your Interest
It all starts somewhere. For us that somewhere started with a few strings and a little orange paint to denote the area of our site. That's all it took for the community to take interest. By 9 AM on Monday morning the first visitor stopped by, Melvin. A man who had spent a large portion [...]
Filling in the Gaps
This phase of the project reminds me of a puzzle that is just a few pieces away from being done. The end is in site, and now the studio is just undergoing a process of filling in those last few gaps. At this point, we are articulating and fine-tuning our ideas, rather than producing new [...]
Welcome to the Next Step: Detailed Design
In the morning of Oct. 1st, all of the members of Studio V gave the presentation to the Design Review Committee in order to suggest and introduce our process of design and purpose. For presenting better, we made three boards, one site plan model and one pavilion model. During the presentation, the members of the committee [...]
Process of the Design—Down to Earth
I was always wondering what the exact design process is. At the beginning of this semester, when we planed to make the bubble diagrams to support our ideas of the site plan. I jumped this step and directly went to Auto CAD to make it. Then when I tried to talk to other members and the professor Pastre, [...]
How do you envision 100 feet?
When you think of the height or length of something, how do you visualize it in your mind? A couple football fields, the Eiffel tower... When I think of a longer distance, a blue whale, roughly 100 feet long, pops into my head. In the 2nd grade, I distinctly remember visiting the Cincinnati Museum Center's [...]