DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Today marked the first day of working in teams for the design of the GAP shed. I am working with John and Elppa on “Team Modular.” Our concept is to create a flexible, expandable structure with modular units or panels. Modular design is based on similar, repeated units that make up a whole. These units [...]
This afternoon we will be holding a review of seven conceptual designs for this semester's GAP Shed project. Each student in Studio V has been working independently for the past week cultivating their thoughts into a coherent scheme. From this presentation of ideas we will compare and contrast the different concepts and choose to pursue [...]
At this point, we are about midway through the development of our individual designs for the GAP Shed. Talking amongst the studio, it seems that there is a constant struggle between creating a cool and interesting design versus making the structure economical and easily built. I believe we will learn a lot through this struggle [...]
Presentation - Great meeting for our clients and us last Friday, full of communication there, during which we did great reporting our intense in-depth research. Lots of customer preferences feedback helps me to revise data to adapt to specific cases, and move forward to individual design. Goals- In terms of solving problem once and for all, [...]
As Nicole wrote about on Friday, we held a presentation that afternoon to discuss the many factors that will directly influence the design of the GAP Shed prototype (You can see the presentation slides here). We had a great group join us in the conversation. Ray Huff was there to add his creative and logistical expertise, not [...]
Studio V’s Research Presentation came together nicely today. We presented what we have learned about GAP, and the cleaning, cooling, water, energy, and materials that it requires. We also presented options for organizing space, as well as ways to build for mobility and flexibility. Even after two weeks of vigorous research, there is still much [...]
Our presentation is packaged and ready to go! Not only do we all anticipate informing our guests tomorrow over how our agricultural shed can comply to the very many Good Agricultural Practices standards, but we in return hope to gain insight from our guests; many who are very knowledgeable within the GAP realm. We will learn [...]
Although we were quite busy, each one of us has made big breakthrough on our research at last weekend. Before that, we are not sure about where to start and narrow down the topic. Take me as an example, when I was going through the GAP checklist files, I found it was covering a wide [...]
On Monday we met in order to further talk about the research we are doing. We are really seeing how much overlap there is between all these different parts. Communication is key. Over the past couple of days I will randomly get GAP standards emails from You if he believes they can help me in any way. [...]
A "Jack of all trades, master of none" is a figure of speech used in reference to a person that is competent with many skills but is not necessarily outstanding in any particular one. This person is a generalist rather than a specialist. Now, as a student of architecture, I was introduced to Leonardo da Vinci and [...]