Week 8 Recap Remember we will not be meeting for a few weeks!  In the meantime enjoy the holidays and let’s get ready to start with our feet running on the project in 2013. For all of you that missed this week’s meeting, you missed out on Architecture 101.  We learned about plan, elevation, and […]

This week we announced that we choose the short stack for our project! The CEO of Big Sky Development, Ronald Trump, flew in to discuss what his hopes for the project were. Ronald Trump pictured above. He is hoping for a highly sustainable project that also incorporates the culture of Chicago into its design. after

Week 6 task was to design, build and manger a project from the ground up. Given a certain budget and a list of materials at a cost, students built and designed a structure that would fit a 6″ x 11″ x 4″ dimension to support a pop can on top.  It turned out to be

Last week we started our evening with some puzzles, followed by ACE pictionary! Two teams competed on their knowledge of discipline related concepts and their drawing skills. After the games, we split into groups to debate three options for next year’s projects. The teams then presented the pros and cons for these and voted at the

Week 7 Recap Alright, it’s official – I have no idea what week it is.  I thought last week was week 6, but apparently our past meeting on Tuesday was the 6th or 7th week. Anyways, I am just going to pretend our last meeting was week 7 and keep moving on. For all of

It’s been awhile since we posted anything. We hope you all are still following this blog. =) This week we worked on our conceptual massing, program of our building, sketches, and physical model. There’s quite a lot of work to be done for next week’s presentation to our “client”, so work hard! As always, if

Last week we were lucky enough to visit Power’s construction site at Loyola’s campus. This was a great intro into the construction world and also a great way to see how all three disciplines come together. A big thank you to Power!

Team 4 spent week 6 exploring the concept of modular design. Since the year’s project will be a modular school design, the students worked on creating small, conceptual models of spaces they thought could be repeated and work into a flexible school environment. They started out doing this individually and then later on broke into

Week 5 Recap Week six was our introduction to engineering! To introduce everyone to the coordination that is required among different disciplines, we did a coordination activity where we had to coordinate the location of steel beams, ducts, electrical wires, and various plumbing lines.  There was no right or wrong arrangement; however, some arrangements were a little

College Night The Week 4 meeting focused on discussing issues related to college- including planning and funding college careers, how to evaluate different college options, and what to do once you finish college. Some big takeaways: Make use of all available resources. Teachers, counselors, ACE mentors, etc. all have different experience relating to the college process.