Team 3 has been making lots of progress with their Museum of Social Media in Perkisn+Will’s new office space. Façade, plans and interiors are coming along nicely. Coordination is flowing. Down to the last couple of weeks!
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Over the past few weeks, the design teams have been finalizing the details of the building and communication between each group has been crucial. Each group has a delegate assigned to work out design/execution issues during the coordination meetings. The students are learning that sketches and diagrams are helpful when relaying information between the groups.
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For the past few weeks, we have continued to work on our group project – a sports museum on Northerly Island. We had to skip a week due to severe weather, but we picked up right where we left off the next week. The two architecture groups have developed floor plans for the entire building
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The students continued on in the progress for the Museum of Social Media. Plans were drawn up, facades studied, and and types of installations researched. The structural and construction teams worked hard on their concepts for the building. Collaboration all around!
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Students and mentors met at CannonDesign’s office. Thornton Tomasetti gave a presentation on structures to the students. Students met in the their groups and colored their foam blocks and strengthened their models and continued to explore and discuss ideas about what levels each of the programs should be situated. Students also discussed structures and core location for the building. At then end of the
Students and mentors met at CannonDesign’s office. CannonDesign explained the Scholarship process and forms to the students to encourage students to submit their forms on time. Students then met in the same groups from the previous week to discuss ideas and develop their ideas three dimensionally by building foam blocks. Students developed foam blocks at 1/8″ scale and discussed best adjacencies and floor layouts in
Team 2 hit the ground running in week 11 in preparation for next week’s client meeting. The design is underway and collaboration between the groups is coming along to solidify the final building plan. Structural Group: This week, the structural group focused on the basics of framing a building. Based off of the architects’ drawings, the
Structural Group: The structural group studied the preliminary floor plans from the architecture group and discussed whether the column locations were sufficient to support the building. We discussed different structural framing schemes that might work for what the architecture group had envisioned. In the end, we concluded that more columns would have to be added
This week was our first week broken up into our team sub-groups. We’ve got 4 groups: construction, engineering, architecture – interiors, and architecture – exterior. The construction group discussed site logistics of the jobsite location, including the fence perimeter, material staging, site access, haul road, utilities, and tower crane location. We also talked about sheeting
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This week, the students met at Epstein and were introduced to mechanical systems – what HVAC means, how it’s actually implemented throughout a building, and various strategies for doing so. Then they teamed up to perfect the “ceiling in a box” exercise. Using colored pipe cleaners, wooden dowels and foam pieces to represent necessary mechanical
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