Massing Exercise Part 2// PLAY D’OH! Many of you came up with many creative techniques for studying and interpreting the program. Instead of looking at the program from a bird’s eye view and arranging it in plan we started playing with it volumetrically. Everyone took what they learned from the programming exercise last week and […]

Massing Exercise Part 1// It is time to start visualizing the program and understanding its spatial quality. We will be physically arranging the program onto the site. In order to achieve this it is important to have an understanding of AREA(sq ft.) and SCALE. We will be using a scale of 1/16” = 1’-0” in

Programming Collage and Diagrams After our visit from Ronald Trump we have jumped into the programming portion of the design process. In order to help us get started we have taken imagery related to the design of a food history museum. Each of the groups has created a vision of what they hope to achieve.

Ahhh, ACE, good to have you guys back.  I’d like to begin by personally thanking Trevon, Ted, and Xavier for turning in Sketch-up snowmen!  Seriously, you have no idea how excited I was when your snowy little emails pop up in my inbox!!!  I’m gonna assume that the rest of you are still working out

YAY! I'm so excited to have a few snowmen in from over the break. I've give you guys some more time, I'm hoping for more still. :)

It’s a theatre!  After much debate and a couple rounds of voting we’ve decided on a broad program for our project, just narrowly beating out the popcorn factory 😉 (sorry Mike and Channen, I know you were really gunning for this).  Now since you all have a nice long break from school for the holidays,

Finally, our project actually gets started.  Keeping in mind with the site analysis we’ve performed, we started throwing out a bunch of ideas at last week’s meeting as to what should eventually occupy our site.  We had a lot of interesting ideas being thrown around:  amusement park, dinosaur farm, scientific research facility, bowling alley, zombie

Wow, those deadlines really get in the way of some good ol’ blog writin’ time.  Sorry for the delay, I’ve been really busy researching cats, I mean working a lot.  So, last week concluded the last of our discipline overviews.  If you happened to miss last week’s meeting, we covered Engineering, and we covered a

We had quite an important meeting Wednesday night. Ronald Trump, cousin of Donald, came to discuss with us an idea he had for a valuable piece of real estate he happens to own right in the heart of the City of Chicago. In order to highlight Chicago’s contributions to food he commissioned us to design

Our first four meetings are in the books and we’re making the turn to start thinking about our projects. Here’s a quick recap of what we’ve done since October: We’ve solved a murder mystery using clues we learned from members of each profession. We’ve reached for the skies (or at least the ceiling) with marshmallows