Program… Site Planning… Team Design… “Just as a spider spins it’s web, people make things that affect the world… There’s nothing more natural…” -Guy I met on a plane (works for Apple) (arguing against the notion that the world is artificial because man has transformed it) Week 10 was a great chance to put to paper […]
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
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This week Team 3 did a brief tutorial of BIM (building information modeling) and the students started using Revit to begin their building massing models.
It’s been a few weeks since our last team blog post, but the team has continued to learn and make progress this month. On the first week back after break (and after the bitter cold/snow day), the students were presented with their group project – an art museum! They will have the opportunity to design
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Current participants in the Chicago ACE Mentor Program are invited to apply for an ACE scholarship, summer internship, or position in the ACE Summer Design-Build Workshop. Click here to access the on-line scholarship application. You must be an active participant in the ACE Chicago 2014-15 program, and have the e-mail and password you used during initial
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Site Analysis…Inspirational Site Visit “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the world exist. Be curious.” -Stephen Hawking Week 9 was very successful. We learned about how architects think in site plan/aerial view, floor plan, section, and
This week in Ace the students presented their preliminary ideas to our “clients”. Each group discussed their organization or space, site, building for and inspiration. While all projects were interesting and creative, the “Little City” project was ultimately picked to continue with in these last couple of weeks. Next week students will be breaking into
For a little fun, the students of Team 2 split up into three teams and were tasked with designing a structure/capsule which might contain a 4″ x 4″ x 4″ cube, span a minimum of 6″ between two books, support the weight of a single can of pop, and have at least two window. There were
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This week Team 2 worked on developing the final project concepts. Through hand drawing and the 3D modeling in SketchUp, the students were able to mass out the selected concepts and program. It was a great chance for students to dive into the ideas they discussed in Week 7 and vet out how the overall concepts
Concept… Design… Make a Wall Brainstorm…Words.. Images.. “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” -Andy Warhol So we missed week 7 because it was freezing outside but… Week 8… We had some great presentations including a very interesting look into Biophilia by VOA’s Jose Barajas and great information about