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CITY
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FACTORY
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HOUSING
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COMMUNITY CENTER
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RIVER
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CITY
U R B A N
R E V I T A L I Z A T I O N
After the collapse of the steel industry, the US Steel South Works plant left behind a vacant 600-acre area of lakefront land and thousands of unemployed workers that had inhabited the adjacent neighborhood of South Chicago. This project proposes the revitalization of this abandoned area through the development of a new urban community called Lakeshore-City.
5 Enhanced connectivity [light rail public transit, 10-min walking distance planned blocks, direct connection to Metra and city trains]
Encouraging human interaction [social spaces where people can sit/relax, vote on community issues, keep an eye on each other]
Diversified program [residential and commercial program is mixed to increase occupation of all spaces for 24 hours]
Connecting to existing public transit
Dividing site into10-min pedestrian zones
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Creating thoroughfares that serve the entire site
Orienting city blocks towards transit nodes
Developing natural and built environments
The built design of the new city attempts to create a contemporary and socially sustainable living environment that can bring new prosperity to its surrounding neighborhood of South Chicago.
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FACTORY
HALSTED DIVISION
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V O S G E S
C H O C O L A T E
F A C T O R Y
Vosges is a boutique chocolate maker that envisioned its Chicago factory as the “temple of chocolate”. Inspired by the idea of the temple structure as well as the “V” in the name of the Vosges brand, I designed a custom building bay that becomes the module that forms the entire factory mass. The concrete bay is made up of 2 distinct shapes that when combined together create 3 different module configurations. These 3 modules are used throughout the building design depending on the function and program of each space.
Sustainability was also an important requirement that was achieved through the use of the concrete module: All concrete forms are factory precast (saving time, labor, and money). The concrete absorbs heat and retains it to warm up the spaces in the cold Chicago winter. Passive ventilation and lighting is achieved through the louvered roof openings that are also embedded in the design of the modular bay.
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green roof walkable vegetation
anodized aluminum railing
green roof soil
steel “T” section fascia
vapor barrier
insulated double-pane glazing
6” foam-core insulation structural conrete structural conrete steel rebar TYP. 12” O.C. steel rebar TYP. 12” O.C.
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HOUSING
M A N U F A C T U R E D
H O U S I N G
The goal for this project was to design affordable and easy to build single-family housing for the blighted areas of Chicago. Two different prototypes were designed to resolve this problem. The design was guided by the need for daylight access to the mass of the building. Environmentally friendly energy strategies and materials, indoor manufacturing and shipping to site, as well as efficient space planning were used to create an overall affordable design.
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COMMUNITY CENTER
C O M M U N I T Y
C E N T E R
The community center building is divided into two semi-circular masses that each called for their own facade development. Through multiple form, texture, and color studies, I designed two distinct but unified building skins that were modeled in Revit as separate building components.
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RIVER
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