A community build project led by Professor David Pastre at the Charleston, SC fluid studio. This outdoor pavilion was a continuation of the Fall 2022 studio. Most of the design work and a majority of the steel work was completed in the fall, while the timber work, storage design and fabrication, and on site construction was completed during this semester. Our semester in this studio was almost entirely fabrication and constructing and very little computer work.
Concrete was the first major element of construction that our team tackled. We learned how to level earth with shovels and a transit, cut, bend, tie, set rebar, lay formwork, and most importantly adapt to mother nature. With the assistance of concrete trucks we moved and screed concrete, so that we could have a nice level foundation for the rest of our build.
Using genie lifts our team was able to raise ten gables that would serve as the skeleton of our outdoor classrooms. Each gable is held in place with a steel footer that is bolted into the concrete. The gables themselves are made of varying sizes of timber ranging from 6x6 beams to 8x10 beams. They are held together with 3 pairs of steel plates that were cut, grind, and welded by students.
The roof and structural horizontal trellis were some of the last things completed. The horizontal membrane and the belt line that runs through site provides almost all of the structural suppor for the pavilion.
The roof is a silver corrugated steel roof that reflects the color of the sky on the given day. It is attached with special roofing screws onto 4x4 purlins that run parallel to the eave and ridge.
W’ALL, a contraction for We All, is a collaborative design build project created in Ufuk Ersoy’s fluid studio. The exhibition was created for the CNOMAS Conference held at Charleston Design Center. The fluid studio worked with Professor Clarissa Mendez’s Design Justice course and Rhondda Thomas’ research, Call My Name. 3 PODS contain 3 discussions. First is Uncovering Clemson, which is imaged through weaving, tells the story of 7 generations of the black experience in Clemson that have been selectively ignored. Second, Invisible Stories, which is imaged through draping, reveals experiences by minorities in architecture and education. Third, Displacement, which is imaged through quilting, tells the story of displaced people.
ALOFT is a high rise, coworking building that sits along the Highline in New York City. The goal of our building was to increase circulation around the building. We focused on how we could make the public space of our building stretch farther than just individual floors and how the community of the building extends into the public realm.
The Cayce Art center was a proposed design project in Cayce, South Carolina. The center needed to have built in programming for classrooms, exhibit spaces, and a theater or ampitheater. This art center was designed at a time of art revitilization within the town of Cayce, which is apparent in its downtown.
Work from 2019-2023
Various drawings done for project analysis, other classes, and models. All projects consist of different mediums.
