Week 1 – During this week’s ACE meeting at HDR, students were introduced to their design challenge. Students explored two project ideas: a redesign of the Chase Plaza and a bridge concept at Wolf Point. The students voted for the bridge idea at Wolf Point. The activity for this meeting was a structure building activity […]
For week 4, we started to delve into aspects of Site Analysis: what is the typical wind pattern of our site? wind speed? what typical average temperatures does our site experience? humidity? precipitation? how does the sun fall on the site/sun orientation? what are routes of pedestrian traffic? public transportation? bike traffic? water transportation? roads? are
During week 3, team 3 learned about the French expression prendre parti or “the big idea“. After watching a presentation from some of our mentors, we sat down and sketched out our big idea diagrams: Additionally, we also focused on bubble diagrams, the beginning of what would be planning and what could become building massing.
This week is one of everyone’s favorite weeks – the construction site visit! Team 7 headed up to the Gold Coast neighborhood to check out a Chicago landmark undergoing a major change, the Viceroy Hotel. The mentors and students first met at the Lou Malnati’s next to the site to enjoy some deep dish and
For Week 3, we focused in on each discipline individually. After dinner, each of the three mentor companies presented on some of their recent projects. First up was Jacobs, the engineering mentor firm. They shared a presentation that detailed what the Jacobs Chicago office does and had photos of recent projects, including examples of streetscapes,
Week 2 kicked off the series of weeks where the mentors share more details of their various career paths, and the students learn more and more about what the mentors do on their day-to-day jobs. We did two activities following dinner. The first activity was a “murder mystery” game. Three mentors, one each from the
Our first week, we met at the offices of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, the usual meeting spot for Team 7. We played some Blockus over dinner and then got into some introduction activities. First, we did an icebreaker to relax and start to get to know one another. Everyone grabbed a handful of M&M’s,
Students and mentors met at Mortenson’s site office. Mortenson’s gave a presentation on the construction project, giving detail history of the master plan, client, phase of the project and building use. The students were then divided into two groups; The first group toured the site and learnt about the opportunities and challenges of the project.
During week 2, team A and B went on site visits with Clune and Pepper. Team A did start the day with a quick sketching activity led by Alan and Madelyn. Then, team A toured an office space near Clune Construction, 10 S Riverside Plaza. The project is set to be completed next year. Framing
Welcome! Team 3 met at the office of Perkins and Will where we continued introductions and ice breakers. After starting off with a Q&A about our program goals, we moved onto our Career Match Game Show. Through this game, we introduced different disciplines within the ACE industry (IE- structural engineer, construction manager, project architect) and