This week Team 3 did a brief tutorial of BIM (building information modeling) and the students started using Revit to begin their building massing models.
This week’s meeting focused on branding environment, interiors and beginning design process. Students engaged in a visual listening activity where they placed stickers on images that either had an interesting architecture or interiors that appealed to the students in some way. Many images will then be used as inspiration for the students as they begin
This week Team 3’s ACE meeting began with a brief overview of ARUP’s sound lab and structural engineering. ARUP’s sound lab showed students the importance of the acoustics of a space. And the structural presentation gave a brief overview of structural concepts and materials. Concepts such as how live loads and dead load contribute to the total load of
Our meeting this week started with a presentation on Construction Management. Mentors from Lend Lease described each facet of the profession, including safety, estimating, cost control, scheduling, and project close out. Following the presentation, the students broke into two groups for a scavenger hunt activity. Each team was given a series of questions that had to
This week Team 3 focused on Sustainability and Site Planning. The meeting started with a presentation on sustainable concepts and the LEED program, and included a case study of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, MA. This was followed by a brief introduction to Site Analysis, showing how to study local effects of pedestrian and vehicular traffic
This week Team 3 made a visit to the ArcelorMittal Design Studio at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, sponsored by LEGO. Students and Mentors got a chance to rekindle their inner child and play with one the world’s most famous building blocks, Legos! The first activity of the night asked the group to build something out
This week in ACE team 3 engaged in an activity that explored program and space planning. Team 3 began brainstorming places such as a clinic, garden, cafeteria, gym, and a gathering space to include in their future design. Students drew bubble diagrams to begin mapping out location and relationships of the various programmatic elements. The larger the bubble
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The students spent the week refining our floor plans. One of our design students volunteered to take the hand drawn plans and bring them into Revit so the group could later coordinate with Structure and MEP trades. The small groups broke out again to further develop the floors they worked on. The engineering students learned
The designs are taking shape! Our team has been working for a couple weeks now in teams and they are tackling some big questions. Now that we have located the core to the building and determined what portions we will be doing adaptive reuse to, its time to plan. The engineering groups talked about sustainable
We started last nights meeting with a presentation about Interior Design and Branded Environments. A few interior designers went through a comprehensive look at the different range of office designs they have worked on. We covered some of the aesthetic choices that clients direct a design team on, as well as some fun and interesting