DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As Studio V learned the hard way yesterday we are bound to make mistakes. This project is most of our first building and construction experience. The building level is amateur for most of us and mistakes are bound to happen. The real key for Studio V is to learn from the setbacks and keep moving [...]
Like the past month studio V could feel the March madness. The build have continued to move along and the drawings are on the way to the building permit office. March was the start of spring and some warmer weekends. The schedule of the build started to fall on weekends, the kitchen started to take [...]
Thanks to our teacher's help with the framing details for the chassis (and by help I mean complete overhaul of the original documents) we have completed the framing for all walls in the Crop Stop. After all the walls were standing, wouldn't you know that they all fit together! Usually when I make things by [...]
The wall frames are up and it's finally time to give the CropStop some skin! For the last couple of weeks, it's been a little frustrating to deal with our learning curve when it comes to building structurally sound floor supports and wall frames. We've put them together and taken them apart so many times that [...]
Cheops (or Khufu in Egyptian) was the pharaoh of Egypt from 2650BC to 2630BC, and was the builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza. Studio V knows this for a fact, and put in two full days of work over this weekend in order to close the gap on the schedule. As of friday, we [...]
Up until yesterday in the build we have only had to reinforce the chassis and build a full scale corner detail mockup. There had been no building of structure on the chassis. Yesterday, Nicholas Caro was the first man to begin the official construction on the CropStop, documented in this photo of him screwing the [...]
It's already week two of the actual construction of the CropStop. At this point we have ground the rust off the surface of the chassis, reinforced the structure with steel, and coated it with three layers of paint. It actually looks brand new with it's matted black finish.We're now ready to begin laying down the [...]
The chassis had been ground down and de-rusted using a special chemical that changed the iron oxide into iron phosphate. This stabilized the steel and prepared it for reinforcements to be welded on. The way the chassis is constructed, there are two larger beams that run the full length from front to back, with flanges jutting [...]
Teamwork is something that can come easily or hard to a group of people. We have all experienced working with a team that was either too lazy or too opinionated, or just didn't have the right chemistry. I am happy to say that this studio v team far exceeds my expectations every time we have [...]
Yesterday, Studio V made a short field trip over to the local Public Service Building to learn a little more about the permitting process and the steps that have to be taken in order to get construction documents approved. It was a little overwhelming to see hundreds of rolled up plans lying in piles awaiting [...]