Garfield Park community church

The design of this community church in situated in one of the most segregated areas in Chicago. One of the largest problems in this neighborhood is the lack of social cohesion. In addition the predominately African American inhabitants are threatened with displacement as a result of gentrification. In order to prevent this, the community needs...

HipHop: A New Perspective for Garfield Park, Chicago.

Garfield Park is a neglected neighborhood in between the city center and the suburbs of Chicago. During the 60s the white middle class moved out to the suburbs to live the “American Dream”. Poor black people moved in and at the same time crime started to rise. Right now the citizens are suffering a live full of poverty and are suppressed by...

Remove and Expose: Chicago's Public Soil Treatment Facility

Industrial and agricultural buildings are one of the few typologies that have not been redeveloped or rethought architecturally. They seem to always be located away from our day to day lives and we usually have no reason to visit these buildings. However, as our approach to waste in big cities is changing globally, I believe it to be essential...

Midcity's Integrated Institute of Culinary Arts (MIICA)

How can a single intervention trigger an attractive production neighborhood to facilitate economic growth in a decaying industrial area? Meet Galewood, Chicago. An area in between downtown The Loop and the outskirts of the city. From the earliest days of Chicago in the 1830’s, the area has shown economic growth. Up until mid-twentieth century,...

Midwest Peripheral Collaboration Complex

Design of Urban Strategy, Masterplan, Hotel and Offices besides Chicago's Midway Airport.

Southworks Technology Center

Introduction My graduation project is about the lakeside development in South Chicago. Chicago Southworks was home to the previous US steel manufacturing plant. About 20 000 thousand people worked and lived at south side. The mill started to decline in the 70 ties because of the shifting market for steel. US steel closed his doors in 1992. The...

Public Baths of Chicago South Works

The assignment of the graduation studio of Complex Projects is the rehabilitation and redesign or strategy of the now empty South Chicago (Illinois, USA) South Works site. The U.S. Steel’s South Works which was located there used to provide for work in the area, but after closure in 1992, the area started to decay. The lack of programmatic and...

South Chicago Learning Center

The city of Chicago is dealing with issues of shrinking population, spatial segregation and losing relevance. Existing masterplan proposed for South Works site doesn’t address the challenges specific of this context, which undermines its viability and jeopardizes possible impact that project could have in the urban renewal. Additionally, within...

A High-Rise agricultural research facility in South Chicago

The creed of Faculty of Architecture in TU Delft is “Design by Research.” The graduation studio of Complex Project is really embodiment of this creed. In Msc 3, we put emphasizes on the research of Chicago City, which our graduation projects located in. We found many interesting facts about this city, which leads to the final master plan of...

Chicago Lakeside Health City Conference Centre

My graduation project is a part of Chicago Lakeside graduation studio in the Chair of Complex Projects. The goal of the studio was to develop a complex architectural solution based on analysis and economic and social strategies, integrated within existing fabric on different scales. The result of the first stage of my thesis work is an urban...