Now three weeks into the Park Design, we have no time for stopping, it is full speed ahead. The ACE Design Build Group is making progress! This week was spent mostly pushing the design ideas forward and start finalizing them. Construction time is almost upon us! Site Model Group The site model group spent […]
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The students are learning the site like the back of their hands. After group discussion about the current site and features we all agree on, we broke into three teams, the Site Model team, Site Plan team, and Design Features team. SITE MODEL TEAM (Jesus, Patty, Mike, AshleyAnn) The context of the site is
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The charrette on June 27th was a big hit, allowing students to not only meet with architects, urban planners, engineers, film editors, landscape architects, interior designers, and members of the Chicago Park district, but they also worked with professionals, ultimately creating their own designs for the playground with a real budget, real client, and real
The Catalpa Park Playground Design Build Charrette!!!!! Read More »
Nick Jaworsky from Wight & Company, and Michael Gallagher from Hugh Henry Construction visited Curie Metro HS on Saturday to facilitate a fantastic workshop on concrete construction! The optional Saturday session was attended by 13 ACE students from across the City and provided expertise in how to construct formwork, tie rebar, mix concrete, and build a
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The Chicago ACE Mentor Program and Associate Board of Directors is happy to announce two scholarship opportunities offered exclusively to ACE Chicago Alumni! Applicants must apply by June 30, 2014. Please consider submitting an application and see the attached announcement for further details! 2014 Alumni-Cohen scholarship announcement
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COLLEGIATE ASSISTANT WANTED FOR ACE DESIGN BUILD WORKSHOP ACE is seeking two students who have an interest in design, construction, and community development to assist with this year’s summer program. The collegiate assistants will fully participate in the summer Workshop as both a team member and teaching assistant. It is expected that the selected candidate
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The results are in for the 8th Annual CIRT-ACE National Design Competition! And guess what Team 1 – WE’RE 1ST RUNNER UP IN THE “LIBRARY RELEVANCE CHALLENGE”! Congratulations Team 1!!! If I wasn’t already being emotional and sappy about how well your presentation at the UIC Forum went, well then this just put me over
Team 1 + Week 19 Guys! We’re done! Call me a soccer mom, but I’m seriously so proud of the presentation that you put together – it was amazing – and you all had great public speaking skills. Your graphics looked great and your calculations and diagrams all made sense – we covered everything we
Team 1 + Week 18 All we have left is our final presentation and I think I’m getting teary! Maybe you guys are excited to get back to having a free Thursday night to stay out late, eat Taco Bell, and not worry about those mentors continually asking you where you think you want to
We’ve got one more week people! And this week got carried away by the wind. No elaborate, cat infused blog post. It’s a work week – keep working on improving the drawings you’ve been slaving away on. Next meeting we’ll be continuing to put the final presentation together and begin working on our verbal presentations
