Students and Mentors met for the first time.  The “Ice Breaker” activity, consisted of Mentors picking a card that had names of buildings on them and Students had cards with pictures of the buildings.  Students had to find the mentor with the name of their building.  Once paired, Mentors and students talked to learn about […]

Team 4 had our final meeting last night to prepare for this year’s presentation. The students and mentors gathered to review all of the work we completed this year. It really is awesome to see how far our project has come over the past several months – from an empty site without programming or requirements to

Team 4 has been focused on conceptual massing during the past few weeks. After defining the size and uses of the building, the students and mentors played with the size and scale of our site on the northwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Lake Street. The students examined the scale of familiar objects (buses and Chicago’s

For Week 6’s activity, Team 4 met at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lego Studio. The space is open to the public and has open build opportunities weekly. CAF led the Week 6 activity which explored texture, span, elevation, and enclosure. The students and mentors were each asked to build something using the Legos at hand

Team 4 continued the Site Selection and Planning discussion during week 5. The students and mentors broke into small groups to develop our project objectives as well as to brainstorm preferred uses for the site. The students were really creative and identified numerous uses, features, and concepts for our project. It was great to see

We are getting close to the final presentation and everyone is putting their final touches on the projects. Below is a summary of assignments students are currently working on. Let’s plan on finishing up soon so that everyone has time to practice presenting. Best of luck! FLOOR PLAN DESIGN Tonight our group started the dorm

In Team 4, we presented ideas for exterior materials for the project, a school dormitory.  The presentation included information about the types of exterior materials and an idea for the shape of our building.  Buildings such as the Aqua Tower and the Shanghai Tower were presented in the presentation.  We discussed the pros and cons

Hey Team! Everyone did a great job with the programming exercise this week. In order to further develop the project we split into two groups, site analysis and programming. Next week we will study the program spatially using massing exercises. Don’t forget to fill out your scholarship application form and have your parents proofread. Best of