Welcome! Team 3 met at the office of Perkins and Will where we continued introductions and ice breakers. After starting off with a Q&A about our program goals, we moved onto our Career Match Game Show. Through this game, we introduced different disciplines within the ACE industry (IE- structural engineer, construction manager, project architect) and […]
Week 5 started off with a presentation by Epstein on the idea of the blind continuous line drawing, a drawing that is created without looking at your paper or picking up your pen. Beginning with an exercise creating line drawings of a chair, the students moved to creating portraits of the person next to them – with
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Structure, Common Interests, Dots + Spaghetti… “I believe that the material doesn’t need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.” -Shigeru Ban What: Structural Engineering Presentation + Activities Where: Sargent & Lundy, 55 East Monroe Street, Floor
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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For Week 6’s activity, Team 4 met at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Lego Studio. The space is open to the public and has open build opportunities weekly. CAF led the Week 6 activity which explored texture, span, elevation, and enclosure. The students and mentors were each asked to build something using the Legos at hand
We had a successful first official ACE session! We kicked it off by testing our skills at building spaghetti towers.
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