CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND EDUCATION
CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND EDUCATION
Circulation within the learning spaces is exposed to public view
The efficient double-skin of channel glass and perforated metal screen provides varying degrees of shade and daylight, depending on the activities inside
LOOP ELEVATED RAIL
PEDWAY CADE PLAZA CHICAGO RIVERWALK
MICHIGAN PLAZA
AN URBAN ASSEMBLAGE
PRUDENTIAL PLAZA THOMPSON CENTER PLAZA
WRIGLEY SQAURE MAGGIE DALEY PARK
DALEY PLAZA
MILLENNIUM PARK
EXELON PLAZA
CHASE PROMENADE
ONE SOUTH DEARBORN 150 SOUTH WACKER
CROWN FOUNTAIN
FEDERAL CENTER PLAZA
NORTH GARDEN
WILLIS TOWER PLAZA
SOUTH GARDEN
311 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE ONE FINANCIAL PLACE
GRANT PARK
PRINTER’S ROW PARK
PRITZKER PARK LED lights mark heights of historic Chicago buildings
METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER PLAZA
DEARBORN PARK
ROOSEVELT PARK
The gymnasium is visible at the level of the elevated train
Translucent channel glass at galleries exposes building structure to public view
DOWNTOWN CHICAGO : OPEN SPACE NETWORK CADE joins the existing network of plazas, parks, and public infrastructure in downtown Chicago. +700’
MID 20TH CENTURY MODERNIST OFFICE TOWER + PLAZA +600’
Light boxes in the plaza provide real-time energy data about the building and general information about Chicago
+500’
EARLY 21ST CENTURY RESIDENTIAL TOWER + PODIUM
+400’
CADE +300’
TOWER + PODIUM + PLAZA = CULTURAL INSTITUTION
LATE 19TH CENTURY OFFICE BUILDING +200’
LATE 19TH CENTURY CULTURAL INSTITUTION LATE 19TH CENTURY INFRASTRUCTURE
+100’
MICHIGAN AVENUE +20’ TO 42’
MID 20TH CENTURY MODERNIST PLINTH + PLAZA
CHICAGO LOOP +15’ TO 20’ CHICAGO CITY DATUM 579.48’ CHICAGO RIVER DEPTH -21’
CHICAGO RIVER SURFACE -0.75’ LAKE MICHIGAN SURFACE -2’
LAKE MICHIGAN DEPTH -922’
DOWNTOWN CHICAGO : URBAN DATUMS AND BUILDING TYPES The prototypical office building, the cultural institution, the residential tower, and the plaza are key elements of the built environment in Chicago. CADE is an assemblage of these various elements, and uses LED lighting embedded in the floor plates to mark the heights of critical Chicago buildings. Through its form, CADE becomes a physical register of Chicago history.
GREEN ROOF AND ROOFTOP APIARY
FORM TOWER
PROGRAM
PLAZA
CHICAGO ARCHITCTURE FOUNDATION & COUNCIL FOR TALL BUILDINGS AND URBAN HABITAT
ACCESS ADMINISTRATIVE / LEARNING SPACES
ALLIED ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
YOUTH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING
PODIUM
CIRCULATION
GREEN ROOF
PUBLIC / COMMUNITY SPACES
PLAZA
BUILDING SKIN
PERFORATED METAL MESH OVER CHANNEL GLASS
CHANNEL GLASS WITH STRUCTURE BEHIND
ROOFTOP APIARY Students help to maintain the honeybee population LANGUAGE ARTS & SHARED LIBRARY
The given parameters for this competition advocate a high-rise solution. However, a building designed to house the CAF, the CTBUH, and arts-oriented programs for teenagers should be a reflection of the diversity of Chicago design and its commitment to public open space. A vertical typology alone is inadequate.
DANCE STUDIOS
RECORDING AND EDITING STUDIOS
We choose to expand the site to the west, opening up a confined intersection and giving us room to develop public space at ground level. Although Chicago is famous for its high-rise innovation, it is also strongly defined by urban horizontals: plazas, parks, rail lines, the river, and the lake. We take advantage of this unique history of civic-minded design to propose a project that is both architecturally and urbanistically significant.
RADIO ARTS & PRODUCTION
FILM ARTS & PRODUCTION
VISUAL ARTS
The CADE assembles downtown Chicago’s fundamental urban components—plaza, podium, and tower—and organizes them in relation to the city’s great engineered frameworks of rail and water. The building itself seeks to be an educational device, exposing building materials and structure for public display. The high school and after school learning spaces are stacked vertically, with strong horizontal connections between programs that foster both technological innovation and intrapersonal collaboration.
SOUND ARTS & ENGINEERING
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING
ARCHITECTURAL ARTS & SCIENCES
EARTH SCIENCES
ATRIUM Circulation space within the podium is programmed with temporary exhibits.
We dissociate 21st-century design in Chicago from the subjective and problematic notion of “architectural character,” and instead celebrate the fundamental spatial elements that shape its urban environment. We believe that aesthetics are performative, and that architecture and urbanism are inseparable.
HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
CAF / CTBUH TERRACE CAF / CTBUH ADMINISTRATION
YOUTH CAFE AND CULINARY DEPARTMENT
URBAN GARDEN / GREEN ROOF SHARED DINING HALL AND TERRACE
LOBBY
GYM The high school gym is level with the elevated train. Exposed structure on the interior displays the building’s engineering.
AUDITORIUM
GYM ATRIUM : TEMPORARY EXHIBITS
TEMPORARY EXHIBITS
CAF DESIGN STUDIOS AND TEEN WORKSHOPS
TOUR STAGING AREA CAF MODEL
FABRICATION LAB
URBAN GARDEN The urban garden connects the main dining hall to the youth cafe and culinary department, with views east to Lake Michigan. The garden doubles as a green roof for the podium.
CROSS-SECTION
Circulation within the learning spaces is exposed to public view
The efficient double-skin of channel glass and perforated metal screen provides varying degrees of shade and daylight, depending on the activities inside
LOOP ELEVATED RAIL
PEDWAY CADE PLAZA CHICAGO RIVERWALK
MICHIGAN PLAZA
AN URBAN ASSEMBLAGE
PRUDENTIAL PLAZA THOMPSON CENTER PLAZA
WRIGLEY SQAURE MAGGIE DALEY PARK
DALEY PLAZA
MILLENNIUM PARK
EXELON PLAZA
CHASE PROMENADE
ONE SOUTH DEARBORN 150 SOUTH WACKER
CROWN FOUNTAIN
FEDERAL CENTER PLAZA
NORTH GARDEN
WILLIS TOWER PLAZA
SOUTH GARDEN
311 SOUTH WACKER DRIVE ONE FINANCIAL PLACE
GRANT PARK
PRINTER’S ROW PARK
PRITZKER PARK LED lights mark heights of historic Chicago buildings
METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER PLAZA
DEARBORN PARK
ROOSEVELT PARK
The gymnasium is visible at the level of the elevated train
Translucent channel glass at galleries exposes building structure to public view
DOWNTOWN CHICAGO : OPEN SPACE NETWORK CADE joins the existing network of plazas, parks, and public infrastructure in downtown Chicago. +700’
MID 20TH CENTURY MODERNIST OFFICE TOWER + PLAZA +600’
Light boxes in the plaza provide real-time energy data about the building and general information about Chicago
+500’
EARLY 21ST CENTURY RESIDENTIAL TOWER + PODIUM
+400’
CADE +300’
TOWER + PODIUM + PLAZA = CULTURAL INSTITUTION
LATE 19TH CENTURY OFFICE BUILDING +200’
LATE 19TH CENTURY CULTURAL INSTITUTION LATE 19TH CENTURY INFRASTRUCTURE
+100’
MICHIGAN AVENUE +20’ TO 42’
MID 20TH CENTURY MODERNIST PLINTH + PLAZA
CHICAGO LOOP +15’ TO 20’ CHICAGO CITY DATUM 579.48’ CHICAGO RIVER DEPTH -21’
CHICAGO RIVER SURFACE -0.75’ LAKE MICHIGAN SURFACE -2’
LAKE MICHIGAN DEPTH -922’
DOWNTOWN CHICAGO : URBAN DATUMS AND BUILDING TYPES The prototypical office building, the cultural institution, the residential tower, and the plaza are key elements of the built environment in Chicago. CADE is an assemblage of these various elements, and uses LED lighting embedded in the floor plates to mark the heights of critical Chicago buildings. Through its form, CADE becomes a physical register of Chicago history.
GREEN ROOF AND ROOFTOP APIARY
FORM TOWER
PROGRAM
PLAZA
CHICAGO ARCHITCTURE FOUNDATION & COUNCIL FOR TALL BUILDINGS AND URBAN HABITAT
ACCESS ADMINISTRATIVE / LEARNING SPACES
ALLIED ARTS HIGH SCHOOL
YOUTH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMMING
PODIUM
CIRCULATION
GREEN ROOF
PUBLIC / COMMUNITY SPACES
PLAZA
BUILDING SKIN
PERFORATED METAL MESH OVER CHANNEL GLASS
CHANNEL GLASS WITH STRUCTURE BEHIND
ROOFTOP APIARY Students help to maintain the honeybee population LANGUAGE ARTS & SHARED LIBRARY
The given parameters for this competition advocate a high-rise solution. However, a building designed to house the CAF, the CTBUH, and arts-oriented programs for teenagers should be a reflection of the diversity of Chicago design and its commitment to public open space. A vertical typology alone is inadequate.
DANCE STUDIOS
RECORDING AND EDITING STUDIOS
We choose to expand the site to the west, opening up a confined intersection and giving us room to develop public space at ground level. Although Chicago is famous for its high-rise innovation, it is also strongly defined by urban horizontals: plazas, parks, rail lines, the river, and the lake. We take advantage of this unique history of civic-minded design to propose a project that is both architecturally and urbanistically significant.
RADIO ARTS & PRODUCTION
FILM ARTS & PRODUCTION
VISUAL ARTS
The CADE assembles downtown Chicago’s fundamental urban components—plaza, podium, and tower—and organizes them in relation to the city’s great engineered frameworks of rail and water. The building itself seeks to be an educational device, exposing building materials and structure for public display. The high school and after school learning spaces are stacked vertically, with strong horizontal connections between programs that foster both technological innovation and intrapersonal collaboration.
SOUND ARTS & ENGINEERING
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING
ARCHITECTURAL ARTS & SCIENCES
EARTH SCIENCES
ATRIUM Circulation space within the podium is programmed with temporary exhibits.
We dissociate 21st-century design in Chicago from the subjective and problematic notion of “architectural character,” and instead celebrate the fundamental spatial elements that shape its urban environment. We believe that aesthetics are performative, and that architecture and urbanism are inseparable.
HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
CAF / CTBUH TERRACE CAF / CTBUH ADMINISTRATION
YOUTH CAFE AND CULINARY DEPARTMENT
URBAN GARDEN / GREEN ROOF SHARED DINING HALL AND TERRACE
LOBBY
GYM The high school gym is level with the elevated train. Exposed structure on the interior displays the building’s engineering.
AUDITORIUM
GYM ATRIUM : TEMPORARY EXHIBITS
TEMPORARY EXHIBITS
CAF DESIGN STUDIOS AND TEEN WORKSHOPS
TOUR STAGING AREA CAF MODEL
FABRICATION LAB
URBAN GARDEN The urban garden connects the main dining hall to the youth cafe and culinary department, with views east to Lake Michigan. The garden doubles as a green roof for the podium.
CROSS-SECTION
