On June 26, the design-build charrette began at Santa Lucia School located in Bridgeport. The students split up into teams to design the outdoor class. Every students had different creative ideas for the design. The students and staff of Santa Lucia enjoyed everyones creative thoughts for their outdoor classroom. We are excited for the next […]
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ACE is seeking two students who have an interest in design, construction, and community development to assist with this year’s summer program. The collegiate assistants will fully participate in the summer Workshop as both a team member and teaching assistant. It is expected that the selected candidate will help motivate and lead the students through
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Team 4 had our final meeting last night to prepare for this year’s presentation. The students and mentors gathered to review all of the work we completed this year. It really is awesome to see how far our project has come over the past several months – from an empty site without programming or requirements to
There aren’t too many updates from this week, but progress definitely continued! The architecture group began to look at the final presentation. The outline is in the works, and the group now has a better grasp as to what deliverables will be needed and what topics will need to be discussed during the presentations on
Team 4 has been busy at work finalizing their project. Now that massing is complete, the students continued to work in teams to refine the component details. The mentors from Thornton Tomasetti explained the different types of structures to the students and worked with the team to determine the material and lateral system best suited
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Team 3 is in the final stretch this week! We are finishing up the design and beginning to put the presentation together.
One week closer to final design! We started this week off with a project coordination meeting. The structural group presented their ideas to the architectural group and asked for feedback. The architects liked most of the structural ideas and layouts presented, so it was a relatively easy coordination meeting. After the coordination meeting, the groups
This week students continued working on their final design. Decisions were finalized for structural core, and architectural spaces. Students also began to explore interior materials in P + W material library.
Team 7 has been busy over the last few weeks! The three groups continue to work on individual assignments within their specialty (architecture, structural design, or construction and scheduling) but there is plenty of collaboration between groups in order to keep things moving efficiently. The architecture group made a lot of progress over the past
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It’s Crunch Time… “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” -John Keating, Dead Poets’ Society
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