This evening was the sixth meeting for the ACE teams. Unlike the typical ACE meetings, in which individual teams of highschool students gather at the offices of their mentors, this was a gathering of all four teams. This afternoon was the ‘50% review’ of the projects. Each of the four projects (coffee shop, yoga studio, visitor center and bike shop) were represented in the large meeting room where we gathered. Each team grabbed a stretch of wall and hung up their work to date. The walls were covered with architectural sketches of buildings in plan view, floor plan layouts, bubble diagrams, and elevations which the students have been designing for the last 10 weeks. After a quick pizza break, it was time for the reviews. As groups walked from project to project, students from each project would present their design; describing why they chose their layout, or building materials, or how they plan to handle stormwater. Members of the other teams were then invited to ask questions of the designers. ‘Does your building have a fire exit?’, ‘What’s the name of your coffee shop?’, ‘Have you considered solar panels for your rooftop?’.
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| Team 8 in the house (I know...all these ACE pics look the same) |
After every student made the rounds to each project, the individual teams had a short meeting to debrief on the evenings review. We talked about what important questions were asked by the other teams, what things we may have missed in our design so far. My team, which is designing the coffee shop, decided that they would like to design a roof with some elevation, instead of the flat (‘boring’) roof we have at this point. For many of the students this evening was an introduction to public speaking. It also became an opportunity for the students to think critically about other projects, and in turn their own design.
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| The yoga studio is comin' together |
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