DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
We may have not had school for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, but that doesn't mean we weren't hard at work. After a week and a half of getting familiar with and working on Crop Stop 1 on John's Island, it came time to familiarize ourselves with Crop Stop 2 from Greenville. This weekend, the kitchen portion of [...]
We can check off the first week of Studio V in Charleston! We have been busy installing FRP and painting the interior of the original Cropstop on Johns Island. The installation of the FRP went much smoother after we got the hang of cutting it. Finally after getting all the pieces cut we used our [...]
As the tail end of the semester has gone, today marks yet another travel day up to Greenville/Clemson. This final trip from Charleston will be to finalized both the Solar D cabinets and the CropSTOP porch structure along with presenting and reviewing our work. The group will split up between the two sites to prepare [...]
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 [...]
As you know our studio is working on finishing up the porch portion of the Crop Stop, as well as getting the cabinetry for the Solar D up and running. In order to complete the Crop Stop a few things are happening, first up in Greenville some extra site excavation is being coordinated in order [...]
A week ago today we were at the Simmons St. shop cutting, painting and pre-assembling the lumber in anticipation for a marathon build up in Greenville. Now, what used to be a field of specifically labeled stacked and categorized lumber is an assembled structure. Starting with a site blanketed in the first snow of the [...]
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 [...]
Good afternoon and happy Solid Orange Friday friends of Studio V! As we finish sewing up the last details of the ole Crop Stop mock-up, myself and the rest of the skeleton crew steering this operation out here on the front have found ourselves smack in the middle of a great lesson to be gleaned [...]
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, [...]