DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
After a six hour ride we finally made it to Clemson! Friday morning we woke got started early and finished the day strong. We managed to unload the kitchen in Greenville at Mill Village Farms, make it back to Clemson to deconstruct the utility shed, and even deliver the majority of pieces of the utility [...]
Studio V had a very successful weekend in Greenville and Clemson, and got a lot of work accomplished. Friday morning we unloaded the half of the crop stop that we have had in Charleston in Greenville in a total of 45 minutes! With that record timing we took off for Clemson to deconstruct the other [...]
Our semester has come to an end! We are now in Clemson and ready to work for the weekend! We have finished packing all the pieces and transported them to Clemson and Greenville. We are looking forward to working all the weekend in order to have foundation laid out. We are divided in two groups [...]
The deconstruction of Cropstop 2 gives a different look at how the sim[ply] method works. When assembling it all we were worried about is trying to get it to fit, but now as we take it apart three months later we are analyzing pieces so that corrections can be made, while understanding why pieces are [...]
With our Mock Up Review under our belt, we had to start thinking about our up coming trip to Clemson. On the 24th of this month we are heading to Clemson for the Solar D Gala. The reason our upcoming trip is a real concern of ours is because we are having to move the [...]
As was mentioned in the previous post, the most feedback we received from our mock up review was about the brackets. We most definitely learned a tremendous amount by actually building the brackets for the mock-up, rather than looking at them on the computer or in sketches. We have two different bracket constructions: one will [...]
Friday before spring break we analyzed our digital model for crop stop 2 and looked for missing pieces on site. We created an inventory that contains pieces we already have at the shop, and made a note of the new pieces needed. During spring break we have received some redlines and feedback from the engineer, so [...]
This weekend was a busy weekend! We were all working on the redlines received on friday to complete them by today so that we could turn them into the engineer. We had thought that after redlining we would only have a few minor changes to make, we were wrong. We started out making a template [...]
As the tail end of the semester has gone, today marks yet another travel day up to Greenville/Clemson. This final trip from Charleston will be to finalized both the Solar D cabinets and the CropSTOP porch structure along with presenting and reviewing our work. The group will split up between the two sites to prepare [...]
Work continues forward among the studio V group, with a lot of focus being put into the development of the cabinetry for the Solar Decathlon project. While the cabinets are undergoing a refinement in design and details, the studio will continue buttoning up final details with the cropSTOP as well as documenting the process of [...]