This week the students traveled to the Chicago Architecture Foundation for, arguably, the most fun ACE session possible – the CAF Lego Lab! Jessie from CAF led the team in a session focused on problem solving within the design process, and the students learned about the concept of scale. In the first Lego exercise, […]
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This week, the students were given information on ACE Scholarships, summer internships and the design build program. Then they were put to work on their client proposals! Site analysis, bubble program diagrams, thesis statements, inspiration images and massing models were updated for the presentations. Our clients (and jurors) for the presentations were Jeremy and Kerstin of
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This week the students met at Clune for a presentation about construction, project management, scheduling and the like. They were then given a value in design and construction exercise. With a time limit and strict money cap for supplies, they had to budget for, plan and build a structure that would span 6″ and, with a multitude
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Week 5 started off with a presentation by Epstein on the idea of the blind continuous line drawing, a drawing that is created without looking at your paper or picking up your pen. Beginning with an exercise creating line drawings of a chair, the students moved to creating portraits of the person next to them – with
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This Tuesday, students and mentors got their first chance to look at their site in person! We met at ARUP office where Mentor Nic Hnastchenko introduced them to Site Analysis and learn about many of the different elements that will be affecting their designs. From loud trains, to sun light, students and mentors had a
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Our students met at Clune’s office and they finally got their first chance to start developing their ideas on paper! We introduced them to Bubble Diagrams and Parti Diagrams. But first, Mentors introduced them to their building program near Clark Street and State Street. A small parcel between the Witt Hotel and Harold Washington College.
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For our second meeting, we headed up to the offices of Clune Construction and learned about an amazing project they’re working on – renovating several floors of the Willis Tower! The students donned hard hats and got some on-site training about about construction management and techniques for renovating in an occupied building. The view
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At Team 3’s introductory meeting, ARUP provided new moleskin sketchbooks for each student. The moleskins are the students’ own… however we started the meeting by having each student draw a picture of “shapes and lines”. After a minute or so we would have the student pass their notebook to the left, so that the picture could be drawn upon
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Team 3 is in the final stretch this week! We are finishing up the design and beginning to put the presentation together.
This week students continued working on their final design. Decisions were finalized for structural core, and architectural spaces. Students also began to explore interior materials in P + W material library.
