Last week we had the opportunity of visiting the site.  Below you can download the pictures from the site visit and start collaging them and developing your ideas. We would love to start posting your work on this blog, shoot an email to acechicagoteamseven@gmail.com. All the techniques we have developed at ACE should start to prepare […]

Hey Team 7-ers, Don’t forget! For this week’s ACE meeting we will be meeting at Thornton Tomasetti’s office at 4:30PM.  Directions to TT’s office are below and shown in this map: Map to TT.  The plan will be to meet early and head to Wolf Point to see the project site for our museum before it

Massing Exercise Part 2// PLAY D’OH! Many of you came up with many creative techniques for studying and interpreting the program. Instead of looking at the program from a bird’s eye view and arranging it in plan we started playing with it volumetrically. Everyone took what they learned from the programming exercise last week and

Massing Exercise Part 1// It is time to start visualizing the program and understanding its spatial quality. We will be physically arranging the program onto the site. In order to achieve this it is important to have an understanding of AREA(sq ft.) and SCALE. We will be using a scale of 1/16” = 1’-0” in

Programming Collage and Diagrams After our visit from Ronald Trump we have jumped into the programming portion of the design process. In order to help us get started we have taken imagery related to the design of a food history museum. Each of the groups has created a vision of what they hope to achieve.

We had quite an important meeting Wednesday night. Ronald Trump, cousin of Donald, came to discuss with us an idea he had for a valuable piece of real estate he happens to own right in the heart of the City of Chicago. In order to highlight Chicago’s contributions to food he commissioned us to design

Our first four meetings are in the books and we’re making the turn to start thinking about our projects. Here’s a quick recap of what we’ve done since October: We’ve solved a murder mystery using clues we learned from members of each profession. We’ve reached for the skies (or at least the ceiling) with marshmallows

ACE’s field trip to IIT is coming up this Friday 11/18/11 (CPS is off that day) from 1 pm to 4 pm.  The trip will include a campus tour, presentation by admissions counselor, and tour of Crown Hall with a professor.  If you are interested in engineering at IIT let me know and we can

Just a reminder for week 4, this Wednesday November 16, 2011 we will be going to the Roosevelt University Vertical Campus construction site! Please remember to wear close-toed shoes (hard soles if ya got ’em), long pants, and dress warm if its cold (which it probably will be). And… Don’t forget your permission slips. Below is

ACE Students, An optional field trip to IIT’s campus has been arranged for next Friday, November 18, from noon to 4pm.  Students will meet with ACE mentors and IIT faculty on campus; we will tour architecture studios, engineering classrooms, student dorms and other campus buildings.  To sign up for the trip, or for more information,