Our meeting this week took place at the ArcelorMittal Design Studio @Chicago Architecture Foundation, sponsored by LEGO. It was a really unique and exciting way for Team 3 to explore massing and concepts for our project in an environment built to foster creativity. First, students were asked to think outside the box and build something out of […]

Our meeting this week took place at the ArcelorMittal Design Studio @Chicago Architecture Foundation, sponsored by LEGO. It was a really unique and exciting way for Team 3 to explore massing and concepts for our project in an environment built to foster creativity. First, students were asked to think outside the box and build something

We had a great meeting last night.  The students learned about some of the basic concepts of sustainability as it relates to the design industry. After that we broke the students into 2 groups and let them to both take part in a visual listening exercise and perform site analysis for our building site.  The

This Monday, November 11th is the IIT Field trip.  You can still register at : http://admissions.iit.edu/undergraduate/vis Details: When: Nov. 11 9:45 AM- 3:00 PM  Where: 10 W. 33rd st. Perlstien Hall This is a great opportunity to see a campus!

We worked on structure and MEP this week. The students participated in an activity where they have to fit all the necessary duct work, cable trays, light fixture, and structure in the box. Here are some pictures of the boxes:

Another successful week here at Team 3. This week, we worked on building three different structural system: cantilever, long-span, and lateral load. To complete this task, each groups are given a certain amount of material to build the structure and the structure must support a ~3 lbs alien. Here are some pictures of the three

Hi Teams 1, 2, and 3: Happy Holidays!! Hope things are going great for you and for your teams. Before you break we wanted to send you information on the Chicago Scholars program application process and ask that you give it to the relevant students on your team. Briefly, Chicago Scholars is an organization that

It’s been awhile since we posted anything. We hope you all are still following this blog. =) This week we worked on our conceptual massing, program of our building, sketches, and physical model. There’s quite a lot of work to be done for next week’s presentation to our “client”, so work hard! As always, if

Hello Team 3! We had a wonderful turnout at the first meeting. Thank you to all the students and parents who were able to join us. We started off with orientation, a fun name game, and finished with a spaghetti + marshmallow structure competition. Here are some photo from the last meeting: [slideshow] Looking forward

Attention Students:  Please join ACE on our annual campus visit to the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, coming up Saturday March 10.  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