DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
These past weeks a team has been working on cutting the lumber of our market walls using the CNC for accuracy. After several mock-ups we had made of the walls where we dadoed by hand, we transitioned to using the CNC to ensure accuracy and that all the walls will fit together perfectly. The [...]
It's been busy in the shop. On Friday, we welded one of the overhead steel bays to completion. This was originally our mockup, which turned out well that it will now become one of the final bays! Throughout the process, we learned a lot about how to improve our workflow. We realized that the bay [...]
It was a busy day for us down in the shop. The day had come. No, not the day we break ground, but the day that we finally received our thermally modified pine for our wall panels. The pallet of materials was dropped off outside in the morning, and we brought it all inside to [...]
With the utilization of new technology comes lessons in checking for errors and optimizing settings. As cuts progressed over the weekend, the CNC was no different. First, we learned to double check the placement of clamps to ensure proper clearance for the CNC's cutting head to pass. A 1/2" difference in placement caused the head [...]
During Friday's studio, we were joined by Matt who has been helping us prepare CNC files for the wall members. Up until now, Matt has taken the lead in test cuts and managing the CNC, however, during Friday's class he took time to teach a group of us how to operate the machine. We went [...]
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 [...]