DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As we're all working away in the woodshop I see this framed photo of Norm Abram in the office that takes me back to watching This Old House with my mom growing up, learning how to do all the same stuff we're doing in the woodshop now. Just a good reminder as to why I [...]
The studio had a nice fall break Monday and Tuesday... Wish that could last longer but --> Back to work!! Before we left for fall break last Friday we painted lots of our boards with one of our colors: French Toast. We spent a lot of time deciding the color palette for our walls/structure/trellis. We [...]
After selecting our paint colors based on how the gathering ground renderings looked, we purchased paint samples and tested each of them out on some scrap pieces of plywood. To get the proper color "experience", we went outside into the sunlight and compared each of the color samples with each other and some of [...]
Today we worked as a studio to pick paint colors for the project. I 3D modeled the pavilion in Sketchup and also had it rendered in Lumion which helped us visualize the project. Using paint colors from Benjamin Moore, we went through a variety of colors and palettes to create a bunch of different options [...]
We had quite the eventful weekend in the shop. Let's recap! FRIDAY: Our shipment of wood came in, so we brought it inside like ants. We #elevated it onto some excellently laid-out wood boards, thanks to Tyler. One team went straight to cutting and milling the wood, while the rest of us wire-brushed all of [...]
After completing a first mockup of one of the ten partition walls in the project, we realized staying consistent with dado cuts (slots) in the wooden members composing the walls was difficult. With the recent addition of a three-axis CNC (essentially a robot for carving wood) in the shop, we decided to take a digital [...]
Everyone has their part to play in finalizing the various details of our design before construction begins. Whether be iterations for the trellis, storage benches or display walls. Over the weekend some were working on more iterations based on discussion from Friday, while others were model making to flush out the logistics of the designs. [...]
Pictured: David Pastre brainstorming solutions with the students. Getting back into the groove this semester hasn't been easy for anyone, but things are really starting to pick up pace. It has been all hands on deck to get material counts, design, adjustments/changes, and an updated cost estimate completed. As we work through these details we [...]
This Friday the studio continued to begin organizing/designing components of the project. Some groups are working out drawings for the decking structure, others are designing smaller components, the project schedule/calendar is continuing to develop, and cost estimation is in the works as information is being collected. The rainy afternoon set some good vibes for the [...]
Not to be confused with PEMDAS, we’re currently figuring out the most efficient use of our time while we wait for the next steps of the project. Since we are waiting on the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding - a fun part of the legal process that we got to learn about) and the permits to [...]