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On The Road Again
As the tail end of the semester has gone, today marks yet another travel day up to Greenville/Clemson. This final trip from Charleston will be to finalized both the Solar D cabinets and the CropSTOP...
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Final Bolts and Knots
Wednesday, our studio headed upstate to Clemson and Greenville for both Solar Decathlon and Crop Stop Review. While a crew of people working on putting cabinetry for Solar Decathlon together, we had a...
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Loose Ends
We’re back from Spring Break with a lot to do before we start building. Last Friday, we realized that we still had a lot of loose ends with our design and our drawings. We decided to stay after studio...
View ArticleA Lot of Moving Parts
Stone Garden | Coburg Rd. Architecture is all about meetings. Meetings drive communication. communication provides feedback, and feedback informs design. Better design is achieved not by a studio or...
View ArticleAre we going Green?
Hello gang, Since we have finished schematic reviews, it’s time to get down to nuts and bolts, almost. We have to carve everything down to one cohesive design, using the feedback from CPC and the City...
View ArticleRebar is Rebar backwards… maybe?
The time has come to do the cost estimating for the slabs of our project, which means that we need to calculate both the concrete and the rebar that will be used. Before we figured out the rebar, we...
View ArticleWhy do they make Rebar Chairs but no Rebar Tables :(
Since we've last updated, we have been hard at work preparing for the first concrete pour of the project. While working with workers form the city, we have learned all about laying string lines and...
View ArticleLet’s do some Engineering!
Finally Friday!! After a busy week of work, meetings, and more work; we are coming to our final meeting of the week. We will be meeting this evening with two of Charleston's finest engineers and...
View ArticleTrellis Mock + Site Lines… check!
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...
View ArticleA Day Worth Framing
Following a rainy, cold Sunday, the sun peeking over clouds was most welcome at the Frierson project site. Having previously finished painting and oat of the exterior wall panel configurations, my...
View ArticleOn the Boards..
This week we started on our design process for Singleton Park's garden! We were all excited to get into the weeds of it, and we had our first meetings with Prof. Pastre today on our work so far. We all...
View ArticleEngaging the Community
Today we shared our final-ish design for our Singleton Park Pavilion. We worked hard to get everything up on the boards and deliver the project's intent to the best of our abilities today and overall...
View ArticleThe Ribbon is Cut
Today we "unveiled" Frierson's outdoor learning pavilion. Our colleagues from last year who designed the pavilion were able to come down and join us for the ribbon cutting event as well as the majority...
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