First things first, SORRY NO PICTURES TODAY. I forgot my camera tonight, but I promise future blogs to be packed with even more exciting photography than usual. And if you are lucky, there will more of me shoveling.
For tonight's ACE session we met at one of the architect mentor's office in the Old Town part of Portland. Craig walked us around the corner to take a look at a job his company had designed. The 3 story building was under construction but will one day serve as soup kitchen for the homeless, with residential units in the upper levels. He talked to the students about all that stuff architects do. When we got back to the office, two of the engineer mentors (Hobbie & Kenny), talked about cost estimating. We then did a rough estimate of what elements the cafe's budget could handle. At one point we ran over budget and had to go with some less expensive furniture for the customer seating. At the end of this weeks meeting, the architects led an intial design on what the exterior of the coffee shop will look like. It was interesting to see certain students gravitate towards this kind of achitectual related design and others show more interest in the cost estimating, which is more engineering/construction related. They were given pizza (again) and the homework of cutting out photos of interior themes that they wanted to see in their cafe.
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