DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
With just one night until our final design review, it was all hands-on deck to put the finishing touches on our concept and presentation. We’ve spent the last few days divided into two groups, consulting one another along the way. Team A’s focus was the logistics of the structure as well as the digital model, [...]
Today the studio will discuss their individual design concepts to continue moving forward towards our next meeting with Jason Kronsberg and the Charleston Parks Conservancy. We will discuss our site strategies, where we plan to place components on the site, along with some structure inspiration. As architecture students, we find inspiration and connections in just [...]
One of the electives that many of us in the design-build studio take is David Pastre’s Intro to Craft course. This class introduces us to design as informed by craft through a series of hands-on labs where we learn basic craft operations and material properties. For our first assignment, we were tasked with building a [...]
The team spent the last two days on a footbridge that will be used to cross the drainage ditch on the north end of our site. Solving this issue was the last piece needed to connect Mulberry Street and the surrounding neighborhood to the West Ashley Bikeway! Much like our larger bridge, we wanted to [...]
A few of us got our hands dirty on-site during studio on Wednesday and the rest of the crew stayed back to keep working on the roof design. The roof design is wrapping up and is looking great. A couple of us will be heading out to the site again tomorrow to finish up cleaning [...]
As magical, fun, and woefully useless as a Mulberry Pond drawbridge would be, it is not the kind of bridge we are proposing. Maybe after we build a castle and find some not-too-friendly alegators to defend it we'll revisit the drawbridge idea, but for now the bridge and pavilion we are proposing is much more [...]
Hey Guys, As we begin to wrap up our semester we would like to thank all of you for following the development of our community build project this far. Yesterday we began to take off the formwork of the concrete that was poured last Friday. I can definitely say it pleased us to finally see [...]
Nor do the wind, the sun, and the rain. Community build don't fear no rebar. Or concrete footings. Or formwork. Our work - ITS IN FORM. It's Friday and Its been a few weeks since I've SPOKEn to all you community build/ StudioV fans. I have the pleasure of updating you all on the success [...]
Hey guys, How's your Thursday going? Things are going pretty well for our design-build project. Just yesterday we held a meeting with Jason Kronsberg the Director of Parks here in Charleston. The meeting was to inform him of our progress in developing the bridge for Forest Park as well as show him our budget, schedule, [...]
Y'all remember spokey dokeys right? The '80s and '90s evolution of the playing card in your bike spokes to make you go faster, sound cooler, and be super rad. We're all about the research into bike spokes as a design concept for our structural system and have done the deep dive into the evolution of [...]