DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
Last week on Friday (1/17/25) Studio V held our first "client" presentation. Our presentation consisted of background history of the City of Charleston, History of Riverland Terrace, Site analysis/conditions, sizing of our project, local Charleston project precedents, and global project precedents. Since our presentation, Studio V has divided the 10 members into 3 groups (4, [...]
Our community build project has been coming together piece by piece, and it’s thrilling to see real, tangible progress as we prefabricate various structural elements like columns and rafters. This hands-on experience has been packed with challenges, but it’s also been incredibly rewarding to learn so many new skills along the way. One of the [...]
Every Monday night, Bar Mash at the Cigar Factory comes alive with music, giving us the perfect way to unwind after long days spent working on our community build project. Whether we’re cranking out shop drawings or preparing for construction on-site, we look forward to the evening—especially with the staff reserving us a parking spot [...]
Happy Leap Day! This semester, I am partnering with the Charleston Parks Conservancy to assist with the future expansion of Mulberry Pond Park. The 5-acre site in West Ashley is home to two ponds on either side of Mulberry Street as well as three prior Clemson Architecture + Community Build projects: Spring 2021–Mulberry Pond Crossing, [...]
FINALLY STARTING - with a late start to our schedule we have to kick it in gear and get working fast. Last Wednesday marked the official start of our studio with shop training! David provided us with an overview to get us ready to complete Singleton. We all came out with our beautifully crafted and [...]
As we come back from Fall Break we've hit some snags on our pavilion project: waiting for permits. Now even though we can't yet break ground that doesn't mean we twiddle our thumbs waiting for something to get done. On our first day back we had some crews put together some more sheets for permitting [...]
As we finalize our full studio group design, we're beginning to put together our boards to present to Meeting St. Academy on Wednesday. Last Friday, our studio got together and split up all of the drawings, putting one student in charge of each drawing over the weekend. In our presentation we want to be as [...]
Midterms are fast approaching and we are gearing up for our small group design presentations! Everyone's been working very hard leading up to this Friday where we will present our small group iterations to Green Heart and Meeting St Academy to receive feedback. Before we all set into our final stretch for the presentations, we [...]
Starting yesterday, we decided to work in groups on a shift basis to be efficient with our times. Crews were determined based on their class schedules yesterday. Several students had a meeting for a mentorship class between noon and 1.00. We kicked off the day with a crew starting to paint and another crew cutting, [...]
Today we started studio with discussing the plans for next two weeks as we have the first concrete pour scheduled for last weekend of the month. After the discussion we split into different groups and started tackling down the list to do one after another. Storage group started to finalize their material for their structure [...]