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Heliomorphic Chicago imagines the radical revision of Chicago’s urban form through optimized solar performance. The project makes new history by presenting a pair of counterfactual futures—two Chicagos that might have been. These alternative visions are modeled through specific parameters of solar access and ecological performance. The project presents alternative potentials for many of Chicago’s iconic buildings as opposing pairs, optimized in relation to either social equity or sustainable energy. Heliomorphic Chicago posits a pair of alternative histories for Chicago’s collective urban identity as derived from the simple, yet intractable, opposition of zero-sum economies —solar equity on one hand and solar energy on the other. Charles Waldheim with Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization and Siena Scarff Design
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Thompson Center
Merchandise Mart
Auditorium Building
Wrigley Building
Monadnock Building
860–880 Lake Shore Drive
Metropolitan Correctional Center
Inland Steel Building
333 Wacker Drive
Crain Communications
Carbide & Carbon Building
Tribune Tower
Daley Center
Chase Tower
Federal Center
Prudential Plaza
Aon Center
Lake Point Tower
John Hancock Tower
Marina City
Chicago Board of Trade
Aqua Tower
Willis Tower
Trump Tower
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860–880 Lake Shore Drive
860–880 Lake Shore Drive
energy
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Merchandise Mart
Merchandise Mart
energy
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Crain Communications
Crain Communications
energy
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Marina City
Marina City
energy
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Lake Point Tower
Lake Point Tower
energy
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Willis Tower
Willis Tower
energy
thanks to Mohsen Mostafavi Pat Roberts Kevin Cahill Rachel Vroman Christopher Hansen Harvard GSD FabLab HAL Robotics by Thibault Schwartz and Autodesk BUILD Space, Boston
Charles Waldheim with Harvard GSD Office for Urbanization Aziz Barbar, project lead Matthew Moffitt, research assistant Daniel Quesada Lombo, modeler Amir Karimpour Helen Kongsgaard Fletcher Phillips Christopher Reznich Lane Raffaldini Rubin Dana Shaikh Solaiman Isabel Strauss Jessy Yang and Siena Scarff Design
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officeforurbanization.org charleswaldheim.net sienascarff.com
Chicago Architecture Biennial September 16, 2017 — January 7, 2018 Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington Street Sydney R. Yates Gallery