DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Over the weekend, the class split into two separate crews. A handful of students finished building the wall at Old Towne Creek, while others began to work on cut-sheets for the pavilion being constructed at Plymouth Park. Those cut sheets were used today to create half-scaled portions of our pavilion's roof truss system. This involved [...]
The studio prioritized time outdoors this weekend... at the worksite! Working Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, our team spent many hours on site this weekend building the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall. On Sunday, some students went back to the site to finish the rafters and purlins while three of us went to the [...]
Today is an exciting day for Studio V! We've finished our work in the shop constructing all of the pieces for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall, and today we start building on site. The columns were the last pieces for us to finish up, and so after we bring them out onto site we'll [...]
We are well into the process of shop construction for the Old Towne Creek Donor Wall! This has been a great experience, learning our way around the shop in the cigar factory and the making and usage of shop drawings. I have enjoyed seeing how things worked and didn't work in the shop drawings that [...]
Today, our studio crew continued to work on assembling the wall addition at Old Towne Creek. We made sure to split ourselves up by task to ensure the work was done in the most efficient manner possible. We started the day by unloading wood planks from Professor Pastre’s pick-up truck and bringing them into the [...]
After being hard at work in the studio and in the shop, some of Studio V headed downstairs to Bar Mash to participate in the weekly Thursday night trivia. This week brought us our highest scores, but after losing our chance to win it all, we went home without the prize once again but with [...]
In the last few days, our studio has split into two groups; one focusing on the structural integrity of the pavilion, and the other focusing on producing construction documents to build the secondary portion of the Community Build studio’s project from last semester. Myself and the others in the CD production group split ourselves up, [...]
This week is an exciting one for the Community Build Studio! Today we are meeting with the structural engineer to work on the truss system in our design, and iron out some structural details. Some of the students in the class have started on construction documents and a larger scale connection model of the pavilion [...]
Studio V has finally narrowed down on a design... all in due time for our presentation today! The team has been hard at work coordinating, drawing, rendering, and modeling the deliverables within a 24 hour window till review. Four total boards will be presented along with a physical model to the clients of the City [...]
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 [...]