DESIGN+BUILD PROJECTS BY CLEMSON COMMUNITY BUILD
As we venture upon the Labor Day holiday weekend we've got a few crews working on our different community build projects. We've been hard at work getting the semester started and are eager to get back on track after our hurricane days. Most of our studio can be seen in the woodshop during class hours [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The past 4 days have been crazy, from getting all the shop drawings, lumber, cutting the lumber at weird angles, painting, & assembling the parts and pieces. Coming into the shop from 9:30am to 1:30am everyday was really tiring. But we can finally see the pavilion and how cool it really is going to be. [...]
This weekend my studio v friends along with our professor tore down the old reading structure that once stood in the same relative location as our new structure sits. Today we started setting the post in the ground and making sure everything will line up exactly like we need in order to get our beams [...]
So while everyone is enjoying a quiet Saturday and Sunday, sipping hot coffee on their front porches, looking into their gardens, with children playing around, people walking their dogs and more, Our studio is in full production mode, enjoying the humming of drilling machines and clincking of metal rebars. Its been a super productive weekend [...]
Over the weekend, Ailed, Yage and I had mock-up one of the five benches on the north side of our pavilion. We did the bottom portion of the bench and the bench composed by the two 2x6 supports, fourteen 2x4 seating slats with 1/2" spacing. The mock-up was very helpful, we had people sitting on [...]
This weekend was a long one. We're nearly done with our CDs and about ready to start the mockup. On Saturday, Katie, Perry, and I went to the site to take out a portion of the community garden fence and mark out the extents of our concrete slab. Armed with 3 tape measures and a [...]
This weekend was the first of what I expect to be many long ones. Â We met up at 8 o'clock in the morning to learn how to cut, grind, and weld the metal that we'll be working with. Â This is important for things such as the caster system for the desk and bar and the [...]
Despite a few small setbacks, Studio V is making progress on the GAP shed. All of our time is being spent in the shop. Today we continued to work on the cooler room as well as the decks. We finished exterior plywood sheathing for the cool room, insulated the walls and roof, and added some of [...]