The Design Project – Production Time! What: Graphics Presentation and Production for the competition! Where: Stantec, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400 When: Thursday, February 16, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: PRODUCTION! PRODUCTION! PRODUCTION!   Important Files:     2017-02-16_Milestones PRESENTATION + REPRESENTATION Blog Quiz: N/A Next Meeting Where: Stantec, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite […]

For week 11, we watched a presentation which described the engineering profession in more detail. After the presentation, we went through a plenum exercise. In this case, the plenum is the space between the ceiling and the floor above. In the plenum exercise, we had to try to fit all of the building system components

The Design Project – Production Time!   What: Basic Structural Elements PK / Teamwork towards achieving milestones & client comments / OLD BUILDING & NEW BUILDING Presentations Where: Stantec, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400 When: Thursday, February 9, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: This week Mentor Stacy presented about structures basics and we touched on professional liability.

This week, we had our client presentations. Three individuals from the Perkins and Will office served as our clients. We would like to thank Bridget Lesniak, Doug Smith and James Giebelhausen for joining us and providing feedback.   We presented our preliminary site analysis, programmatic bubble diagrams, design concept (parti), and formal massing which we

This week we went to the Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) where they hosted the Lego Lab workshop. Jesse from CAF gave a presentation on the process of design. After the presentation, we were asked to create a duck in 10 seconds out of Legos. We were then asked to pass our ducks to the person

This week, we learned about elevations and exterior cladding. An elevation is a flat representation of one side of the building. Elevations can describe the form of a building parallel to the point at which the representation is taken. Frequently, elevations are taken and described by direction. For example, a building’s North elevation, South elevation, West

The Design Project – A Visit from the CLIENT Those who have learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. -Charles Darwin What: Project Schedule PK / Teamwork towards achieving milestones & client comments / SITE & NEW BUILDING Presentations Where: Stantec, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400 When: Thursday, February 2, 5:00 –

The Design Project – Team Milestones and Presentations Design is thinking made visible – Saul Bass What: Structures PK / Teamwork towards achieving milestones & client comments / OLD BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION Presentations Where: Stantec, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400 When: Thursday, January 19, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: Materials engineer Mentor gave an overview PK presentation

In week 7, the presentation focused on construction management. We introduced construction sequencing and the critical path method. We also talked about new technologies in the construction arena. We asked what construction tasks need to be done and when? How long will these tasks take and what is the priority of each task? We continued to

This week we led off with an Introduction to Engineering presentation and finished with a really cool structural project- bridges. Each team had to figure out how to span a bridge which was to be 12″ in length and 6″ in width. Things we learned to address are- what are our connections made of and why? What