This past week’s meeting got a little behind and ran a little long, so sorry for that everyone, I hope we didn’t screw up anyone’s Valentine’s Day plans!  Nevertheless, I hope everyone enjoyed the sustainability study and learned a little about building efficiency.  There are two major contributors to optimize a building’s sustainability.  Siting a […]

This last week things got REAL. And by real I mean we split into 4 groups — one for Site Design, one for Building Mass, one for Building Envelope, and one for Engineering. Taking what we learned from our clay massing models, our site analysis and visit, and everything we’ve learned throughout the year our

Soo, the burning question on everyone’s (or just my) mind…anyone get lost on the way to Cannon’s office?  Sorry for sending you guys running around town every week, but it’s really nice to see the way different offices function.  In case anyone missed the meeting, I think it’s safe to say that the “shake table”

Ah, again, a meeting I wish I wouldn’t have missed.  It’s always fun watching the blind leading the blind, especially when it comes to mixing food coloring and water.  And Construction 201 did just that! The activity emulating the construction process established a chain of command where each member of the team could only speak

Last week we had the opportunity of visiting the site.  Below you can download the pictures from the site visit and start collaging them and developing your ideas. We would love to start posting your work on this blog, shoot an email to acechicagoteamseven@gmail.com. All the techniques we have developed at ACE should start to prepare

Hey Team 7-ers, Don’t forget! For this week’s ACE meeting we will be meeting at Thornton Tomasetti’s office at 4:30PM.  Directions to TT’s office are below and shown in this map: Map to TT.  The plan will be to meet early and head to Wolf Point to see the project site for our museum before it

Programming was so much fun this past week!  Maybe you all weren’t starry-eyed with everything going on, but as of Tuesday, we kinda have a building guys!  DISCLAIMER: so, this building is going to change a lot over the next couple of weeks, and in the end, it won’t look anything like what we started

Aw fiddlesticks guys, I’m so disappointed that I couldn’t go to the site visit last week, but I hope everyone else had a good time!  In case anyone else missed the site visit, our group met at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and got to peek around at this hospital in progress.  It was

Massing Exercise Part 2// PLAY D’OH! Many of you came up with many creative techniques for studying and interpreting the program. Instead of looking at the program from a bird’s eye view and arranging it in plan we started playing with it volumetrically. Everyone took what they learned from the programming exercise last week and

Massing Exercise Part 1// It is time to start visualizing the program and understanding its spatial quality. We will be physically arranging the program onto the site. In order to achieve this it is important to have an understanding of AREA(sq ft.) and SCALE. We will be using a scale of 1/16” = 1’-0” in