DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
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 [...]
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 [...]
We've got one week left of classes to go before finals and we're all hard at work together to finish up the various projects left. Most of Friday was spent in the woodshop, cutting wood to get ready for a trip back to Frierson or working on metal for the bridge at Ardmore. Kevin's butterfly [...]
Cut, Grind, Weld, Repeat. This is the formula we have been executing all weekend in preparation for our build. Each gable of our structure is joined together by steel plates that connect the rafter to column and column to collar tie. In the process, each plate has to be cut to length, hole punched for [...]
This weekend the community Build studio split up into two groups, team "mock up" and team "site lines". Team Mock up worked in the shop preforming welds, angle grinding, and wood cutting to assemble a mock up of our trellis design. Pictured below is a full scale mock up of a portion of the trellis [...]
Heavy metal. 🤘 This week, every studio member has had opportunities inside and outside of studio time to cut, grind and weld steel which has been a pretty neat hands-on learning experience. It's also been really rewarding to see collective improvement among the whole group in each of these skills. Much more welding and fabricating [...]