DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
T-minus 3 days till Spring break! With the break being right around the corner we are all in full grind, as we have started schematic design. This will lead into our final design. Currently, we have broken into 3 groups of 5. Each group worked with each other Monday and came back together at the [...]
Today marks the first day of the design phase of Crop Stop 2! However, just because we are now working on Crop Stop 2 doesn't mean Crop Stop 1 is forgotten about. Professor Pastre reminded us that in any design or construction job, it is typical to work on more than one project at a [...]
The soffit on the roof is all up and ready to go. The way that the boards run the entire length of the structure and run out from the walls on either end really help to create a separate plane for the roof. This was a detail that was suggested by Marlon Blackwell when he [...]
Everyone! Wipe your feet! The floors are undergoing the hose and squeegy treatment, so you know this means we are nearing the end. Though there are more items on the list to be constructed and installed, it is finally getting to the point where we are taking care of details and "cleaning shop" around the [...]
Today was an extremely productive day. We all met at 8:30 in the morning, loaded up the trailer with the roof purlins, and split up. Pastre and Elppa went to Lowes to pick up the metal corrugated roofing, and the rest went to the site. All we needed to do was [...]
Carl Simmons, the Charleston County Building Inspections Director, was gracious enough to meet Studio V at the shop today to look over our contruction so we can obtain our building permit on Sweetgrass' site. After completing the overview of our project and flipping through our CD's, we showed Carl around the shop to show our different [...]
Today we cut and framed all of the walls with the exception of the cool room walls. We basically worked 9 hours on it today, so this blog may be a little short in length. We framed each individual wall separately, so eventually the walls will be able to be unscrewed in panels to be [...]
Both today and this past weekend we have been further detailing our construction documents for the GAP Shed. Nicole, Ashley, and I have been working mainly on the structure of the revit file, whereas the others have been more focused on the sinks, cooler, drainage, and sliding panel system. This weekend we spent a lot [...]
Final Conceptual Review –Of course, it was the most relaxing weekend ever I had! As a group we smoothly finished our conceptual design of GAP SHED, but it is just at the mid-point for Studio V-design and built. There were full of VIPs in that small meeting room on last Friday , leaving us tons [...]
We met as a studio today in order to talk more about the roof. We had some helpful insight from Ray Huff about how many of our ideas can get complicated for us to build let alone some one with no design experience. Then we came to the realization that one roof is the best [...]