Edges, Dimensions, and Spacing OH MY!

Well, we've gone and done it again, the studio has split in two.  The simultaneous development between the Crop Stop and the Decathlon cabinetry is crucial at this stage, since we are working up to our porch build in Greenville next week, and the Cabinet mock up in  the weeks that follow that. The cabinetry design [...]

Box It Up

Innovation isn't necessarily in being cutting edge in technology or ideas!!! True, that fancy new solar panel or smart wall membrane can have a heavy affect on building performance, but not every project has the budget for high level products.  In our Solar Decathlon cabinets, we have to push the idea of innovation as far [...]

Scale

Have you ever looked at a word long enough to realize how weird it is? Lately that word for me has been scale. a S - C - A - L - E a Sometimes we take for granted the meaning of our words.  Upon a second glance, not only is scale a funny looking [...]

A Brief Interlude About Cabinetry

While the immediate, semester-long goal of Studio V is to design and produce a fully functioning Crop Stop unit for deployment in Greenville County, our studio's responsibility's also extend to Clemson's Solar Decathlon studio. As we act in concert, using their construction methods to build our Crop Stop, we are in turn designing the fabrication [...]