Andrew Santa Lucia
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Architectural Designer / Critic
How to let Prentice Grow...
Growing
Up
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2740 W. Logan Blvd, #8 Chicago, IL 60647 I want to grow up!!
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C: 305-343-6285
E: andrew_santa_lucia@me.com
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I want to feel young again!
Prentice
(up, down, around, inside, Chicago Prize 2012 Competition outside, near, far and Entry, Chicago, IL - 2012 in-between) 1. OLD DOG (Old Prentice) Prentice Womens Hospital serves 1. OLD (Olda Prentice) as anDOG origin point, figural language for new city making in Chicago. Prentice Womens Hospital serves as an This type of urban narrative allows originforpoint for the development highly figural buildings - soft, of a iconic, fun easy - tomaking act as anin Chicago. language for and new city agent in terms fo speed This urbanizing type of urban narrative allows for and shapes.
highly figural buildings - soft, iconic, fun 2. INFLATE and easy - to act as an urbanizing agent in Allow Prentice’s iconic figural terms fo speed and shapes. column-less floor plan to reproduce itself across the street into a
30% larger floor plate. This acts 2. INFLATE as the maturing agent and is a Allowdirect Prentice’s figural columness responseiconic to Northwestern floor University’s plan to reproduce across the criticism itself of Old Prentice’s inability to sustain the street into a 30% larger floor plate. This 500,000 sq. ft. of new space they acts want. as the and is a direct By maturing inflating the agent current floor plan and of the building into response toshape Northwestern University’s a gigantic second mass across the criticism of Old Prentice’s inability to street, the first inklings of Prentice sustain 500,000 sq. cities ft. ofare new space as athe paradigm for figure they born. want. By inflating the current floor plan 3.and shape of the building into a INFANTALIZE gigantic second mass across From an inflated state, then Prenticethe street, can move into a smaller more the first inklings of Prenticeinfant as a paradigm version of the original Floor Plan, for figure cities are born. adjacent to the “Inflated” tower. “Infant” tower can be a completely different program for the hospital, INFANTALIZE such as administrative or hotel.
3. From an inflated state, then Prentice can move4. into a smaller more COPY-CAT (Prentice City) infant version of The “Prentice is to the the original FloorCity” Plan,complex adjacent completed by erecting an exact “Inflated” tower can be a copy oftower. the Old“Infant” Prentice Women’s Hospital different on Southwest corner of completely program for the the VA Lot. As a model for future hospital, such as administrative or hotel. figural city blocks, “Prentice City” is the first historic building to multiply
without kitsch reproduction 4. COPY-CAT (Prentice City)or abstract repetition. The “Prentice City” complex is completed by erecting an exact copy of the Old Prentic Women’s Hospital on Southwest corner of the VA Lot. As a model for future figural city blocks, “Prentice City” is the first historic building to multpiply without kitsch reproduction or abstract repetition.
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I just want to be alive!!!
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I want things to go back to the way they were!!