Covering up with Purlins and Rafters

Great progress has been made on the site with the installation of all the rafters and almost all of the purlins. The rafter installation process went relatively smooth with only a few cross-brace systems needing to be shaved down due to having too tight of a fit. Other than those slight adjustments here and there, [...]

Mood Board Mapping

  This week in studio has been all about dissecting our small group designs in order to come up with a new collective design for the Plymouth Park structure. After taking on individual sketching earlier in the week, the class came together to pin up our sketches and create a mood board with images that [...]

Getting The Lay Of The Land

To kick off the semester, the new Community-Build studio spent the last week exploring our site at Plymouth Park and the city of Charleston as a whole to understand the entire context of where we’ll all be working and building.  Located in the Riverland Terrace community, Plymouth Park serves as a local gathering point with [...]