DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cheops (or Khufu in Egyptian) was the pharaoh of Egypt from 2650BC to 2630BC, and was the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Studio V knows this for a fact, and put in two full days of work over this weekend in order to close the gap on the schedule. As of friday, we [...]
The initial phases of the build continue moving ahead as we refine the construction documents. After working for weeks on these documents, I’m eager to hop on board and get my hands dirty. However, there is still drafting work to be done. This project is all about the details, and we have quite a few. [...]
It's already week two of the actual construction of the CropStop. At this point we have ground the rust off the surface of the chassis, reinforced the structure with steel, and coated it with three layers of paint. It actually looks brand new with it's matted black finish.We're now ready to begin laying down the [...]
Today Studio V is finishing up the final welds to reinforce the chassis and starting to paint and frame the flooring of The CropStop. Welding has been a blast to learn and the chassis is going to look brand new after the fresh matted paint job. Nothing has stopped Studio V as most of the [...]
The chassis had been ground down and de-rusted using a special chemical that changed the iron oxide into iron phosphate. This stabilized the steel and prepared it for reinforcements to be welded on. The way the chassis is constructed, there are two larger beams that run the full length from front to back, with flanges jutting [...]
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 [...]
Another review has come and gone and once again we find ourselves coming away with more questions than answers. We came a long way in only a week in a half; a lot of problems were solved. Mainly, the overall layout for the kitchen, all of it's components, including the bathroom finally works programmatically. It [...]