DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
The group is working together in shifts of 4-5 people to finish the table and benches for Stephen Washington Park. Yesterday, the morning shift made serious progress on bench 1, beveling and welding it together. The afternoon shift worked on grinding down the bench and priming the table that was finished being welded on Monday. [...]
Weld-erful things continue in the shop this week as we continue to shift from the digital realm to physical fabrication. Yesterday we continued to practice our metalworking and welding fabrication skills, getting more comfortable in the hot seat. Some of us also began to cut out/mill components we will be welding together as part of [...]
April Fools! Yesterday, we decided as a class to show up impersonating David's signature look, his glasses. As he was sketching on the whiteboard, we all quickly put on the glasses, and when he turned around, for some reason, he was more confused about why Malu was recording him than about why we were all [...]
The group is still working on the Revit model for Conservancy of the Sea Islands. As many architecture students know nothing is ever really finished when we want things to be finished. A schedule/plan is a more looked to as a good idea and what we are striving towards... ALSO thanks to minecraft brain and [...]
Last Friday, the Gathering Ground team discussed a game plan and timeline for modeling the final design in Revit and producing the CD set drawings. Now that we all have access to a central Revit file, one team (Hamilton, Kaden, and Tyler) are working on modeling and laying out the column and deck grid. At [...]
Yesterday, our class had an in-person presentation to the Conservancy of the Sea Islands Board Members and a Zoom meeting for the people who couldn't attend. It was a very productive meeting; we had many conversations about our design, and great ideas emerged as we discussed it. Kaden and Nolan presented for all 13th of [...]
Friday was an important day for the studio. As our Wednesday final presentation deadline approaches, we needed to make some pivotal design decisions as a group to give us headway going into the weekend. We began studio with focusing on either a shed or gabled roof idea digitally modeled, and then shared them with one [...]
Today we had our Community 1:1 book discussion at Kudu Cafe downtown. We talked about the last chapters of Raising the Bar and Let My People Go Surfing. A lot of the conversation ended up being about values, culture, and lifestyle, and what we would want if we ever started our own company or became [...]
On Thursday we all met up at City Lights Eastside for our weekly book club. We discussed the books let my people go surfing by Yvon Chouinard, and Raising the Bar by Gary Erickson. While we’re split about half and half between the two books, both offer valuable insight into the business world, and [...]
As Shane shared in the last post, we are continuing to develop the moving wall concept and how the three stands can slide together to create a stage like gathering space while still functioning day to day for display and crafting. At the same time, we are beginning to think more intentionally about the site. [...]