One week closer to final design! We started this week off with a project coordination meeting. The structural group presented their ideas to the architectural group and asked for feedback. The architects liked most of the structural ideas and layouts presented, so it was a relatively easy coordination meeting. After the coordination meeting, the groups […]
This week students continued working on their final design. Decisions were finalized for structural core, and architectural spaces. Students also began to explore interior materials in P + W material library.
Team 7 has been busy over the last few weeks! The three groups continue to work on individual assignments within their specialty (architecture, structural design, or construction and scheduling) but there is plenty of collaboration between groups in order to keep things moving efficiently. The architecture group made a lot of progress over the past
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It’s Crunch Time… “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” -John Keating, Dead Poets’ Society
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In our eleventh week of ACE 2014/15 (wow! only seven more meetings left!) Team 2 met at Primera’s office to learn the particulars of MEP and related architectural engineering. After a nice tour of the office students were presented with the ceiling-in-a-box challenge. Using copper wire, a variety of colored pipe cleaners, a white foam
This week, students began thinking about exterior façade and interior space. They also broke into their respective areas of Engineering, Architecture and Construction.
This week was a big week for our group. Now that tests are over, we had most of our students too! We split up into our groups last night, which will carry us through to the completion of the project. Students got to choose between three groups: architecture, construction (physical model/site), and structures. The architecture
Designing… Breaking up the Masterplan into Parcels… “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney (who obviously never met a cat) Week 11 was very productive! We divided the site into parcels and started designing more details about each
This week we discussed façade and floor plans with our team. The meeting began with a brief presentation about building facades’ form and function. The students then discussed what ideas they had about their form and design of the building based on the revit models they made in week 10. The students then worked in Revit, but this time looking
We started this week off with some tangram exercises in order to get us all thinking about spaces and spacial interaction. I think we managed to get them all, but some were definitely harder than others! After dinner, we continued to work on the project. One of the AS+GG mentors gave a presentation on bubble
