What Team 8 Has experienced

Title: What Team 8 has Experienced

Throughout the past few months, our team learned several valuable life lessons. Lessons such as teamwork, technical skills and critical thinking.

To start off the project, team 8 divided into three groups: Architecture, Construction, and engineering. Each group was given responsibilities and tasks to be accomplished. Strong teamwork was established through the works of RFI (Request for Information) and individuals making up for what others lack (such as knowledge in different fields.)

Additionally our team gained insight on the fields of architecture, construction and engineering through field visits and the expertise from the team mentors. Our mentors provided valuable expertise to help our design challenges. Some field visits we have done are the visit to Snohetta to learn about the architectural field. They specialized in the usage of wide open spaces in their libraries to attract people around it, thus we thought of using that too for our renovation. As for construction, we visited the offices of structure tone and the construction site of Elmhurst Library. The visits gave us an idea of how to design the structure for our library. In addition Sergio Silviera provided us with valuable engineering information on how to attract people to libraries through the use of luring materials such as glass.

One of the most important lessons we learned was problem solving. Some problems we faced: how to expand the current library to the required size, who and where to gather and organize information. In the end, through research and critical thinking as a group we were able to come up with solutions to our project.


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From Michael Ding, Brandon and Carina Acosta