PRESERVING HISTORY
Future Prentice 2012 Competition
Once an innovative structure in the Chicago skyline, today a dated building, but a building that holds significant meaning in both its design creation and in the lives of many of Chicago's citizens. When the building was designed it was an innovative structure because of its monolithic concrete shell which was completely cantilevered of the core. The elimination of columns for support allowed for a free plan, flexible to accommodate the multi-purpose program. It was necessary for our design to keep these points present in the preservation of the Prentice building. Our design is a monumental glass and steel skin that treats the Prentice building as a habitable sculpture. The existing structure is experienced by the user spatially in four different ways. The first way is the building being seen from a far in which it is seen as a precious sculpture protected from the elements. The second experience occurs in the entrance hall in which the building is seen form worms eye view. The third is the experience of the user from within the existing structure in which the program takes precedence of the experience, and the fourth is located on the tenth floor where the space exposes the user to an exterior interior relation with the existing structure and the skin.
Plan view Hierarchal Views and Axis Diagram
Elevation Structure Diagram Skin Design
Sectional Expansion and Contraction Slab Diagram
Natural Light Spatial Study
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CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL CLUB: FUTURE PRENTICE 2012 COMPETITION ID: 7SA68