DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
We finally finished preparing everything to take to the site at Stephen Washington Park. A group headed out early in the morning to drill the table we had prefabricated in the shop and luckily, everything fit and worked exactly as planned!!! We also had a bit of fun in the kids' park since it was [...]
The group has been making steady progress as we get close to wrapping up the semester. Yesterday we continued working on a variety of tasks. We just received structural updates from John Moore on the project with the Conservancy of the Sea Islands. With this information, we aim to apply the corrections to our construction [...]
The group is working together in shifts of 4-5 people to finish the table and benches for Stephen Washington Park. Yesterday, the morning shift made serious progress on bench 1, beveling and welding it together. The afternoon shift worked on grinding down the bench and priming the table that was finished being welded on Monday. [...]
Yesterday we had a momentary break on studio production to hold book club of Out of Architecture at Hampton Park. It was perfect weather and not too sunny under the shade of the trees, although everyone did leave with a little Spanish Moss entangled in our hair. Many brought lunch or coffee from local spots [...]
April Fools! Yesterday, we decided as a class to show up impersonating David's signature look, his glasses. As he was sketching on the whiteboard, we all quickly put on the glasses, and when he turned around, for some reason, he was more confused about why Malu was recording him than about why we were all [...]
The group is still working on the Revit model for Conservancy of the Sea Islands. As many architecture students know nothing is ever really finished when we want things to be finished. A schedule/plan is a more looked to as a good idea and what we are striving towards... ALSO thanks to minecraft brain and [...]
After a relaxing spring break, we decided it was time for some studio updates. First, Vivian shared her experience presenting at the board meeting for Conservancy of the Sea Islands last Tuesday. The board unanimously approved both the overall design and the proposed budget, which was exciting news for our team. Though the highlight of [...]
The push for a final design continued on Wednesday. At the start of class, we took our two ideas, one with the path on the outside of the structure and one where the path bisects the structure, and developed them further. Both groups were talking, sketching, and measuring spaces in order to figure out proportions, [...]
I’m working with Kaden and Kylee, and we’re putting the final touches on our design. Our project focuses on creating a boardwalk with sweet grass basket stands, all housed under a single continuous roof. The overall concept in our design has come together really well, but the roof has definitely been the most challenging part. [...]
As we all prepare for the upcoming small group design review next Wednesday, this week of studio starts the final design push before we switch to documenting our projects. By this point, groups have set their site design strategies and have been refining what the structure looks like, aiming to be complete with major design [...]