After a delicious dinner at HDR’s new office, the students were taught how to scale drawings using an engineer’s scale. The team broke up into smaller groups and worked on designing the marketplace on paper. Each team had to use their newly learned scaling abilities to allocate the appropriate square footages for the rooms that […]
For our first meeting of 2016, we started off with a plan set scavenger hunt. We broke up into groups and searched through a couple example structural engineering plan sheets to complete the scavenger hunt. Looking at the 22″ x 34″ plans (what we call full-size), we discussed a variety of “tools” used on plan sets, including
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Hard Hats, Boots, Safety Glasses…Check ✔️ “Every day should be an adventure.” -Sean D. Tucker What: Construction Management Presentation + Construction Site Visit Where: 5710 S Drexel Ave, Chicago, IL 60637 @ University of Chicago Medical Center (just east of Washington Park) When: Thursday, November 17, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: What a great turn out
Week 5 started off with a presentation by Epstein on the idea of the blind continuous line drawing, a drawing that is created without looking at your paper or picking up your pen. Beginning with an exercise creating line drawings of a chair, the students moved to creating portraits of the person next to them – with
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At Team 5’s fourth meeting the students applied all they have learned so far from the different architecture, structure and construction management disciplines with a design build activity. They had to buy materials within a limited budget, design and build a building to scale considering specific site issues and support the weight of a graphic
Upon Team 5’s first visit at the architects’, Valerio Dewalt Train Associates, office they were gifted with Field Notes sketchbooks. In their new sketchbooks they practiced architecturally documenting various fruits and vegetables in plan, section and elevation. When they weren’t sketching they were learning the fundamentals of mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems from Lend Lease.
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At our first team meeting of the year, Team 5 participated in a murder mystery activity. With various clues and tough investigative questions, the students cracked the case! While trying to figure out who was responsible for the fictional murder, the students learned more about the job responsibilities of an architect, engineer and construction manager and what
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Students and Mentors met at Thornton Tomasetti’s office. Mortenson construction presented a project to the students to teach them about Construction sites, the logistics that need to be considered for building construction. Students were placed in groups and each group had to discuss and draw where they were going to locate, Site entry points, access
The students and Mentors met at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, where the students learned about the process of design. Students and mentors sat around tables with endless supplies of LEGO. Each person was asked to make a duck in 3 minutes using Lego pieces. The students then presented their duck to the rest of the team. The next exercise was
Students and mentors met at CannonDesign office. During the first hour, each of the firms (Mortenson, Thornton Tomasetti, CannonDesign and GSA) explained the type of work involved in each field. In the second hour, the students were taken to the Chicago Architectural Biennial at the Chicago Cultural Center. Each student was given a worksheet, which