[slideshow] Student Summary: We started the week with practice exercises in sketching. We visited the site to take measurements. We visited the Richard Daley Branch Library, and did background research about West Humboldt Park. We met with Cdot, and had shop orientation. On Friday we had the Community Design Charrette. We met at 9:00 at […]

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Welcome to the 2011 ACE Design Build Summer Workshop!  This year marks the second year of  partnership between the Chicago ACE Mentor Program and the Chicago Public Schools, making possible a fantastic opportunity for CPS high school youth interested in the design and construction industry! Last year’s pilot program enrolled 12 CPS juniors (rising seniors)

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Students of ACE Mentor Program Team One have been awarded an Honorable Mention/Second Runner-Up in the 2011 CIRT/ACE National Design Competition.  The team’s design project focused on the adaptive reuse of the Singer Pavilion, on the former Michael Reese Hospital Campus, into a school for the performing arts.  This is a great achievement for the

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The 2011 final student presentations and awards ceremony will be held tonight (Wed. March 30) at the University of Illinois Chicago Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Rd.  Follow the excitement to presentation rooms D, E, and F on the main floor.  Presentations will begin at 6pm and concluding at 8:30pm (student teams will begin set-up at aprox. 5:30pm, or

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 Attention Students:  Please join ACE on our annual campus visit at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, coming up Saturday March 12.  The trip is free to all ACE students and includes travel by coach bus, breakfast, lunch and a fantastic and informative tour for all students planning to attend college. We will be hosted upon arrival by

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Building a Foundation for the Future The Sixth Annual Chicago ACE Luncheon The Chicago ACE Mentor Program invites you to join us on February 15, 2011 as we help build a healthy future for our workforce and celebrate those making a difference. Network with your colleagues and make new contacts too! DATE: February 15, 2011

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This week we worked in teams to develop the building mass of our ideal school.  Foam blocks representing the program spaces were arranged in a variety of schemes.  We discussed how to group areas of program based on function of spaces, circulation between spaces, views and daylighting, and location within the project site.   After presenting each of the schemes there were many similarities between

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