Hey guys, Happy Friday! As we close out this week I would just like to do a nice little recap of all we accomplished this week. This week began with us coming to class on Monday in teams of two full of ideas for a start in designing the program for the Charleston Parks Conservancy [...]
Tag: Teamwork
Charleston Area Conservancy: Program Considerations
There is the argument that programming is a completely different topic than design - and in many ways it is. We had a fabulous discussion on Fridays review about what the conservancy values with high priority and what is not so important. Based upon Mondays class discussion here are some of the programmatic elements that [...]
Blogs as a teaching tool
What do blogs teach us? Following a productive weekend of researching architectural precedents, Charleston history, horticulture history, and West Ashley climatic and demographic information, Studio V had the chance yesterday to run through all of our findings and compile them into a more cohesive plan for this coming Friday's presentation with the Charleston Parks Conservancy. We [...]
A ZOOM© into Virtual Studio Culture
Anyone that knew an architecture major during college knows that when an architecture student goes to studio, its usually for a very long time. “What is the word can they be doing that makes them stay up till the wee hours of the morning?” you might ask. Well the answer may not surprise you. They [...]
Bikes. Brainstorming. Bridges…
Higgins Pier After an intense day of field study, biking the West Ashley Greenway, the A+CB team heads back to Studio V with a better understanding of the current site conditions along Charleston's premier walking trail. An outdoor experience and hands-on building projects are the reason a lot of us joined Studio V and now [...]
Almost Ready to Lift
Last night we moved all the rafters to the site and assembled our 48 FOOT beams that run down the center of the structure helping to support the roof and gutter. A couple of key deliveries came yesterday: Our GUTTER and the wire mesh for our vertical garden. Moving forward this week you will see [...]
Color Schemes
As some of our team began to put together the truss system for the roof over the weekend, I started to examine different color schemes that we could possibly use for the shade structure. Earlier in the design phase of our project, our client had mentioned about the possibility of incorporating the colors on the surrounding [...]
Storage & Seating Final Adjustments
Over the past few days, my team member Christian and I have been working extensively on making adjustments to the seating and storage that we have designed. A big part of the adjustments that we have been making addresses how the various board slats will go together. We will be using 1x3.5 slats of lumber [...]
Don’t Forget the Fish: Part II
Alternative title : Shrimp, grit, and determination . Trying to look at the big picture, last semester's Clemson Architecture+communityBUILD (A+cB) program taught me the biggest lesson of the critical path - thinking about the work in the sequence required and working on parts that you will need first to allow other people to continue moving [...]
“Work Smarter, Not Harder”
"Work smarter, not harder." Sounds like something my father or grandfather would tell me, gently chiding me for making something more complicated than it needs to be and then instructing me on a way to do it better, faster, more accurately - or giving me a better tool to do the job. That's another phrase [...]