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Architectural Drafting of Dream School Design
Posted in MSP Architecture on Sunday, March 25th, 2012
After looking at designs by Tadao Ando and Peter Exley for inspiration, young architects are designing Dream School as a collective project. Each of them signed up for a program he or she wanted to design and made drawings of what the space will look like. Later, the entire enterprise will be produced in architectural [...]
Google SketchUp
Posted in MSP Architecture on Sunday, February 19th, 2012
SAIC young architects went to Chicago Architecture Foundation to look at model of Chicago and Navy Pier Pavilion design competition. They also attended architecture family camp, learned about structural engineering, and were lead through basic drawing tools in Google SketchUp by two wonderful student TA’s: Reagan and Zoe. The class will later develop these skills [...]
Dream Room
Posted in MSP Architecture on Sunday, November 20th, 2011
After visiting the Thorne Galleries in the Art Institute, the young architects learned about material, scale, and texture. They then built model rooms with foam cores, rice paper, corrugated cardboard, construction paper and model magic. They were encouraged to explore the design of their Dream Room by drawing plans and sections of the design.
Sections and Contours
Posted in MSP Architecture on Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Young SAIC architects learned about sections, contours, and volumes when looking at the Chicago Architectural Foundation model. They learned that volumes can be sculpted with layers of paper assembled together and how to create 3D objects without working with clay or other 3D medium. They also made 3D models in Rhino, sliced them in contour [...]
Architectural Drafting
Posted in MSP Architecture on Sunday, November 6th, 2011
After looking at the Thorne Miniature Room galleries of the Art Institute and drawings by Bertrand Goldberg, SAIC young architects made architectural drawings of a “Dream Room.” They learned how to draw plans, sections, and elevations of a room with drafting tools such as T-square, triangles, compass, electric eraser, and rolling parallel rulers. The Dream Room [...]
Rhino-ing!
Posted in MSP Architecture on Sunday, October 30th, 2011
SAIC 10-13 year old architects learned to design a small object using Rhino 4.0 and Google Sketchup programs. After looking at works by Karim Rashid and Le Corbusier, they also visited the Art Institute for Cy Twombly Sculpture and Bertrand Goldberg Exhibition to learn about Plans, Elevations and Sections in Architecture drawing. The designs created [...]
Chicago Cultural Center trip!
Posted in MSP Architecture on Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
SAIC young architects visited the Chicago Cultural Center to look at the architecture and learned how to draw floor plans of the spaces in the building.
