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...

Mid-City Central: A new perspective on airport centered communities in the 21st century.

An exploration into the suburbian wastelands of Chicago and how these can be given a new boost by increasing connectivity.

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...

Chicago - embraced

The project deals with the decay of the social and built environment in West Chicago. It reflects on the rise of the artificial environment, theoretical thoughts from V. GRUEN as well as the materialistic condition of the built as potential reasons for the decay in the area. The building design is a new city centre in the decentralized west of...

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,...

South Works Station

Shrinking cities are a big problem in the current urban development of Western cities. The midwest of America has experienced an ongoing decline in population within its city centers since the middle of the 20th century and nothing has yet to be proven effective to turn this development around. Chicago is no exeption to this phenomenon with many...