Today, the studio made major progress. We’ve officially finished up most of the remaining shop work! The columns, truss, cross bracing, and rafters are all complete, and over half of the purlins have been sanded and stained. We even loaded up the first truckload of pieces to head to the site. All left to do [...]
Tag: Design-Build
Completion of the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall
After about seven weeks of planning, designing, and building, we’re finally close to finished on the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall and it has been a complete success so far all things considered. What started as a rough planning process working through the best way to fabricate the pieces and producing a material count, has [...]
Enjoying the Charleston Sun
The studio prioritized time outdoors this weekend... at the worksite! Working Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, our team spent many hours on site this weekend building the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall. On Sunday, some students went back to the site to finish the rafters and purlins while three of us went to the [...]
Site Visit!
We’ve officially started transporting materials to our site! With both beams cut, assembled, stained, and finished, it took the whole studio to get them loaded onto the truck and hauled them out for placement. Over the past few weeks, we’ve gained valuable experience in the shop, and now we’re ready to dive into the next [...]
Shop Days!
We are well into the process of shop construction for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall! This has been a great experience, learning our way around the shop in the cigar factory and the making and usage of shop drawings. I have enjoyed seeing how things worked and didn't work in the shop drawings that [...]
What’s Your Coffee Spot?
There's two things you should know about me. I love Jesus, and I love coffee. I'll always be down to go grab a cup of coffee, especially if it means we get to check out a new shop! I was born and raised in Charleston, so over the years I've had a chance to try [...]
Creating Shop Drawings
For the past week or so in studio, I have been a part of the group that is in charge of creating shop drawing for a project that was started last semester at the Old Towne Creek Park. The shop drawings themselves have been a great learning experience for myself because I get to actually [...]
Fine-Tuning Our Design: Meeting with the Structural Engineer
Yesterday marked a huge milestone for our studio. We had the opportunity to meet with a highly respected structural engineer, diving deep into the mechanics of our truss and cross-bracing systems. Since structure is the backbone of our project, this meeting was very important in refining and elevating our design. We began by reviewing column [...]
Researching Charleston
This week is an exciting one for the Community Build Studio! Today we are meeting with the structural engineer to work on the truss system in our design, and iron out some structural details. Some of the students in the class have started on construction documents and a larger scale connection model of the pavilion [...]
A Fast Start To February
In the Community Build studio, the beginning of February has been eventful. We are currently moving towards a February 18th deadline as we work to synthesize our many ideas and narrow down our final group design to be proposed to the city. Most of the studio met yesterday to compare sketches and study models, then [...]