DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Good morning! This is your resident in-house expert on commercial grade kitchen appliances for Studio V on CropStop 2.0! I have no idea how that happened. Well, that's a lie. No one else wanted to do it, so in order for the project to move forward, someone had to start researching. Yesterday, however, had me [...]
After both studio groups presented our ideas, we have consolidated the two proposals and are now working on one design. Kathy Calvin, the President and CEO of United Nations Foundation once said, “ There is power in individuals, and now we’re learning there is power in individuals coming together.”After agreeing on a simplified floor plan, [...]
While it is interesting to know 'how' Crop Stop 2.0 is being shaped, it is important for us to remember 'why' it is happening. Eating, buying, and supporting businesses locally is an almost cliched initiative today. The act of doing so has become foreign to many people. It's an understandable logic when you look at [...]
The studio has broken up into six groups of twos to start designing for our assigned regions. My partner Alex and I are designing for the Heartland Region, which spans Massachusetts, Nevada, and Oregon. Because this region contains the most diverse terrain and climate of any US region, we struggled to find a site [...]
After we defined all the regions we are going to focus on, our group were separated into 6 smaller groups. Each of them are working on a specific design for a community model in each region. The purpose of this is not only to explore design possibilities for every different regions, but also to help [...]
On Saturday, the studio made our war to Sangaree Homes & RV's, where our mobile chassis is located. We completed the demo work from last week and now our kitchen has it's base. Check it out: Alright, it may not look like much now, but in a short two months there will [...]
Over the weekend we – the five members of Studio V – have been finalizing our site analysis. This is the time to focus and to refine the research, diagrams, and precedents we have been working on over the past two weeks. You may ask, “Why this concluding note?” On Wednesday we will be giving [...]