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Making Metropolis 24/7 City

Studio Professor Steven Brubaker Studio Participants Jaime Castilla Santos Xiao Lin

24/7 Eco-politan Offices+Elementary School

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Introduction: Eco-politan

Our project is a mixed used building with 500,000 sq.ft office and one elementary school, including 12,000 retail stores, and 350 parking spaces.

We are designing a educational social center improve metropolitan people of different ages to experience different life, different seasons by walking through different spaces and touching different materials. The building includes the feature of communiting space, natural landscape, daily memorial , city gardens, educational center and citizen playground. The project is aiming to encourage people to explore new life experience inside the metropolitan atmosphere.

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Project Goal

Our project tries to achieve a new typology of building in the city, where all the users share secondary programs with all kinds of people. This new structure generates a complex interconnection of uses that brings to the city a new whole interpretation of the space use.

The variety of users provides an opportunity to investigate this new typology of mix use building. We based our thoughts in design a number of sharing spaces that will bring different programs that will generate interactions between different users inside the building.

The mix will put together the work place of adults with their kids.

This situation brings us a good opportunity to think about what good things from a school atmosphere can make an office space better and vice verse.

02 Study Diagram

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Site Study

The area where our project is placed is the south part of the Master Plan. This area is surrounding by Halsted St. Jackson St. and Desplain.

Halsted St has shopping atmosphere, the Desplains St is for service traffic and the Jachson street is one main street connecting downtown and suburban area.

Our site area is 180,300 Sq.ft, it has south and north part. We align our building retail program on the first floor along the Jackson St. and Halsted St. Our goal is to improve the street life in the city.

SITE -- GREEN AND RETAILS

There are several residential buildings, some office buildings, street retails existing around our site According to the new master planning, there would be a children museum to the east and a middle school to the west of our site. Plusing our program of office and elementary school, a new educational and social center is created.

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Market Study 40,000 SQ.FT.

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Broker Office

Design Office

We did office market study in Chicago downtown area to decide what kinds of offices, how many offices, what office types and how much area for each typical office type we should design in our building. From the study, we can know how can we execute our project to be successful according to the existing successful metropolitan area.

In Chicgao downtown area, the market of design offices and finance offices are more mature. As a result, we will build more of this kind of offices. We design some broker offices and medical offices to meet our booming planning area service need and explore the possible market.

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Finance Office

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Different office types need different areas and layouts according to their different uses. The medical offices need separated small rooms for each doctors and each small rooms need get the direct natural light. The broker office need one big areas for trading activities. The design offices has different departments.

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Site Structure Design

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One of our main issues that we had to solve was build everything above the 94’Highway.

This vast car space has 275 feet from one shore to another. So we put 3 lines of structure N/S with a space in between of 150 feet without interrupting the highway traffic, in the W/E direction we placed columns (3 feet diameter) every 60 feet over 7 blocks of the city covering the named highway.

To provide a good platform to support our building, we developed a stripe grid made of prefabricated concrete channels.

These channels had 4 feet deep in order to provide enough space to plant trees as a requirement for the landscape project. The design of them comes from turning over a waffle slab. This waffle is extruding in the E/W direction, leaving a ‘U’ shape.

The space between the concrete side give us the possibilities to make different types of programs, like trees, benches, water, performance place, skate area, etc.

At the end we finished with a flexible structure to plant the landscape project (in section we can see it as: ‘UUUUUUUUUUUU’).

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Landscape

The roof landscape design follows the stripe lines from construction channels. The roof garden is accessible by ADA ramps.

The material of pathway changes from plastic rubber to Trex and brick panels. The yellow plastic rubber gives guide for children to go to Children’s Museum. The Trex pathway leads people go to the office building and destination-conservatories. Brick panels offers leisure walk among plants. The colorful lines are the seats made of terra cotta- the material of building façade. The plant pallet is various. The main plants are native grasses, because they are more sustainable than others. Additional, there would have shrub area and flower zones which could supervise by City of Chicago.

There would be conservatory and observation room at the end of the roof terrace garden.

SITE -- PARK TO ROOF PARK

08 Concept Sketch 09 Green Roof Plan 10 Garden Landscape Detail

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Programs Study and Design

350.000sqf………. office 25.000sqf………… school 12.600sqf………… retail 350…………………. parking At the begging, one of our tries to manage this idea of mix use building of school and offices was the ‘Cookie Concept’. This concept try to organized our program.

If we take a look to a cookie we can find different types of condiments all glue down sticky dough. We though that we can make a space that all the programs are attached and share, so the will have something in common.

The communication and movement between the different spaces has to pass through these sharing spaces.

At the end, we start placing this sharing space in the center. The school was the smallest, but more powerfully program that we were required to include in the building, so we put around them, the office that represent the 60% of our program and is enough to cover around the school to. The last element that we include was the city that can be benefit from this spaces as well.

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Building Structure

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After the platform that we placed over the highway, we put a steel truss of 20 feet deep, in order to make the first two floors where the parking is placed. The areas of the building that are on the ground a not over the highway are supported by concrete columns.

15 Structure Perspective 16 1/192 Scale model

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Building Structure

17 Superaxon Structure and Materials 18 1/192 Model

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Two floors we got a metal gauge structure, 5 floors of this light structure that makes the rest body of the complex.

To cover it we use curved beams where the landscape roof plan is placed.

The windows has a ceramic frit layer in order to make texture aver the facade, the slab lines its cover with a steel plate.

Terrecota rods cover in somehow the windows in the east and west facades. And the North faรงade is cover by an algae wall explain more detail later.

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Space Design

19 Superaxon Spaces 20 Concept sketch of public spaces

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There is one of the building main entrance on the north part of the building. In this area, we design one lobby, one auditorium, one gym, conservatory and restaurant & cafe. The center lobby connects all the public programs including the children museum in the next building.

In the south part of building, we diffuse library, pingpong room, multi-media room, meeting room, conservatory rooms and view observation rooms surrounding the offices and school classrooms. This would improve communication in between different ages and statues, which reduce the indifferent metropolitan feelings.

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Plans

Chicago

21 Plan 1,2 &3 22 Indoor Exhibition Space Rendering

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23 Plan 4,5, 6 &7 24 South Perspective 25 Indoor Office

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South & North Elevation Rhythm South facade of the building contains the rhythm of algae wall, which is designed to get efficient natural sunlight.

North facade has the rhythm in the changing of roofs and gardens.

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South Facade --Algae Wall

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We design algae wall as sun shading on building south facade.

The algae wall continue the green roof landscape from the north elevation. The algae allows rapid biomass growth in urban areas without huge land field consumption. The growing green algae shadings make the sunshine penetrated from the south become softer, which is good for workers and students whoever use this building.

The algae wall can also absorb CO2, release O2. What is more, the wall produces biofuels as well as treating waste water.The south facade has 39,900 sq.ft. algae wall which can generate energy to support building heating and hot water.

The Algae wall can turn with different angles according to the sun path changes under the season changes.

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Summary

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Our design is try to improve people live, study and work in the metropolitan can enjoy and explore their own life and interact with other people’s life to gain a rich life experience texture under relaxing eco-friendly “Eco-politan“ atmosphere.

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