The Site Visit The road to success is always under construction. -Lily Tomlin What: Site Visit Where: Southgate Market, South Canal Street When: Thursday, December 08, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: The students learned about the construction industry at a real site, and went on a scavenger hunt to find different construction elements. Important Files: general-release-for-visitors-minor site-visit-map […]
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Construction 101 No great thing is created suddenly. – Epictetus What: Construction Management Where: Gilbane When: Thursday, December 01, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: The coke can activity! Teaching the students how a construction project is managed and the different roles / paths you could take in the field. Important Files: coke-can-construction-activity Blog Quiz: N/A Next Meeting
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Week 4 – Lesson in MEP! This week’s meeting was held at Primera’s offices. Students were given a presentation by Halvorson and Partners and Primera Engineers on the MEP & Fire Protection disciplines. It is important for students to understand how each discipline plays a role in the overall functioning of a building. In order
Week 5 – Design Change! To kick off this meeting, students had a lesson in drawing views of objects. The students worked individually to draw out different 3D shapes in sectional and elevation views. This exercise gave students the basic principles that go behind Architectural and Engineering drawings. Objects such as Oranges, Soda Cans, and Cheeseburgers
Students and mentors met at Thornton Tomasetti’s office. The students were divided into 5 groups to analyse the site. Each group was given a topic to investigate about the site. The 5 groups were: Sustainability Adjacency History Vegetation Opportunities Each group then presented their site analysis to the rest of the students. During the second
Architecture 101 We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. – Glenn Murcutt What: Architecture 101 – What is an Architect & How do you become one Where: Stantec, 224 South Michigan Avenue, Suite 1400 When: Thursday, November 17, 5:00 – 7:00 pm Why: First, we had two presentations on
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Week 3 – Site Visit! This week’s meeting was dedicated to taking the students on a site visit to a Turner project currently under construction. The project is an interior build out of an existing high rise building. Project Manager, Bill Marsh, gave a presentation on the overview of the project. Students had the opportunity
Week 2 – The focus of this meeting was creating a site analysis for the proposed bridge idea at Wolf Point. A short presentation was held to discuss the kinds of things that Architects and Engineers look for when creating a site analysis. Students were then given aerial maps of the site and worked in
Week 1 – During this week’s ACE meeting at HDR, students were introduced to their design challenge. Students explored two project ideas: a redesign of the Chase Plaza and a bridge concept at Wolf Point. The students voted for the bridge idea at Wolf Point. The activity for this meeting was a structure building activity
For week 4, we started to delve into aspects of Site Analysis: what is the typical wind pattern of our site? wind speed? what typical average temperatures does our site experience? humidity? precipitation? how does the sun fall on the site/sun orientation? what are routes of pedestrian traffic? public transportation? bike traffic? water transportation? roads? are
