Week 7 – Site Programming After a very deserved break, the students and mentors were ready to work hard and push forward with the project! The focus of last meeting was to come up with general concepts of how the space was to utilized. Now, the focus was to divide the project into 3 smaller […]
Week 6 – Site Analysis + Bubble Diagram This week’s meeting was focused on creating a new site analysis for the Damen Silos project. Students had to become familiar with the site and the surrounding area before moving forward with the project. Site logistics such as traffic routes, areas of interest, and surrounding neighborhoods were
Week 4 – Lesson in MEP! This week’s meeting was held at Primera’s offices. Students were given a presentation by Halvorson and Partners and Primera Engineers on the MEP & Fire Protection disciplines. It is important for students to understand how each discipline plays a role in the overall functioning of a building. In order
Week 5 – Design Change! To kick off this meeting, students had a lesson in drawing views of objects. The students worked individually to draw out different 3D shapes in sectional and elevation views. This exercise gave students the basic principles that go behind Architectural and Engineering drawings. Objects such as Oranges, Soda Cans, and Cheeseburgers
Week 3 – Site Visit! This week’s meeting was dedicated to taking the students on a site visit to a Turner project currently under construction. The project is an interior build out of an existing high rise building. Project Manager, Bill Marsh, gave a presentation on the overview of the project. Students had the opportunity
Week 2 – The focus of this meeting was creating a site analysis for the proposed bridge idea at Wolf Point. A short presentation was held to discuss the kinds of things that Architects and Engineers look for when creating a site analysis. Students were then given aerial maps of the site and worked in
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
Over the past few weeks, the design teams have been finalizing the details of the building and communication between each group has been crucial. Each group has a delegate assigned to work out design/execution issues during the coordination meetings. The students are learning that sketches and diagrams are helpful when relaying information between the groups.
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Team 2 hit the ground running in week 11 in preparation for next week’s client meeting. The design is underway and collaboration between the groups is coming along to solidify the final building plan. Structural Group: This week, the structural group focused on the basics of framing a building. Based off of the architects’ drawings, the
Structural Group: The structural group studied the preliminary floor plans from the architecture group and discussed whether the column locations were sufficient to support the building. We discussed different structural framing schemes that might work for what the architecture group had envisioned. In the end, we concluded that more columns would have to be added