a(n)urbanism
SCHOOL: Yale School of Architecture
LOCATION: The Loop, Chicago
STATUS: Studio project 2000
PROFESSOR: Douglas Garofalo
Team project (with Jeff Goldstein and Eric Samuels) an empty block in Chicago’s downtown. The focus of the studio was to utilize analytic and generative strategies enabled by iterative computation and parametric geometries to reimagine the urban experience. In this proposal, the horizontal circulation and infrastructure of the loop in downtown Chicago are continued vertically to extend the finite street level urban fabric into a new loop. The new ground is then zoned and developed according to its resultant physical characteristics of access, daylight, dimensions, adjacencies, and proximity to circulation. Density and use shift with vertical progression from a mixed urban condition at the base to suburban residential at the top.
