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REMOVE & EXPOSE
Chicago’s Public Soil Treatment Plant
Ilham Lakhal Complex Projects // Mick van Gemert . Hubert van der Meel
REMOVE & EXPOSEMain Question :
Can we rethink industrial processes architecturally and make them publicly accessible?
...If so - HOW?
Break down Presentation
01 CONTEXT IS OF THE ESSENCE
02 PERSONAL VISION FOR THE WEST SIDE
03 DISCOVERING URGENCIES
04 MASTERPL AN VISION
05 DEFINING THE T YPOLOGY
06 HELPFUL AND NOT SO HELPFUL REFERENCES
07 DESIGN + MASTERPL AN: EXPLORING IT
Let’s start contextualizing things first...
CHICAGO!
01
Country: USA
State: Illinois
City: Chicago
01
What’s Chicago like?
01
Skyscrapers
01
Extreme weather
01
ElevatedPublic Transport
01
Chicago Transit Lines:01
Centre
CTA’s Major Flaw:01
Centre
Introduction Vertical Line01
Centre
The Lime Line01
Midcity, Chicago
Centre
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Midcity, Chicago
Centre
01
Why do we call the area Midcity?
1 Complex Projects Graduation Studio 7
suburban downtownIN-BETWEEN
1 Complex Projects Graduation Studio 7
suburban downtownIN-BETWEENT H E I N B E T W E E N
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Focus on the In-between area
1 Complex Projects Graduation Studio 7
suburban downtownIN-BETWEEN
1 Complex Projects Graduation Studio 7
suburban downtownIN-BETWEENT H E I N B E T W E E N
01
Greater Masterplan for Midcity
Centre RHIzOMEStarting from the Lime Line proposal, that we considered to be more efficient as a CTA, we conceived our project thinking how this new infrastructure can enhance the development of the area. This long strip of intervention will span from north to south, going through fourteen neighborhoods. We thought that this future improvement can be the chance to intervene in a way not to over-impose programs, but looking at the elements that right now define the identities of these neighborhoods and try to enhance them. The strategy starts, this way, by analyzing the existing programs and then looking at places for future interventions and expansion. Vacancies, either in land and buildings, gave us this opportunity to give an added value to the whole area. The whole strategy develops around two main themes, the so called “spine” and the “nodes”.
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
LIME LINESTRETCH
NODECENTERS
AREA OF INFLUENCE
IDENTITIES OF NEIGHBORHOODS
The nodes have the characteristic to be conceived as peculiar situation for each one of them. We defined six according to the existing configuration of where the major infrastructures meet the Lime Line. The plan for this nodes is conceived to let them acting as elements going “against the city grid” in order to give a chance to a synergy to be created. This is reached by the meeting of two different urban patterns, where the space in between gives a clear definition for new urban dynamics to emerge and to give an identifiable character for the actual situations and the future ones.
ANALYSIS DRAWINGS
the sinergy between the two elements brings opportunities that are more than the sum of each
a new way to preceive and live the space that the discontinuity creates an identifiable scheme to follow leads to a less arbitrary way to add future interventions
SYNERGYThe Synergy between the two elements brings about a new way to perceive and use the space that the discontinuity creates an identifiable scheme to follow leads to a less arbitrary way to add future interventions.
EXISTING PROGRAM
PROPOSED PROGRAM
INDUSTRIAL HUBMany manufacturing Industries exist along the lime line without a pattern . However most of these industries are on the verge of shutting down or have already been shut down for many reasons. The proposal aims at clubbing together the industries on the south side of the lime line around the sanitary canal. The sanitary Canal could act as a source of energy production , waste disposal and transport of manufactured goods . Green Patches have been introduced around the industry buildings as public spaces in order to clean the air-pollution partially.
EXISTING PROGRAM
PROPOSED PROGRAM
recycle HUB
EXISTING PROGRAM
PROPOSED PROGRAM
commercial HUBThe area next to six corners is characterized by several commercial activities. The largest amount of people living there is below their forties and work as employees in business companies. The future node enhances the commercial character of the area for development of fair expositions and markets, also considering the strong infrastructural link to the airport. This connection, also toward the city, and the tendency of the workers living here triggers the development of a business district too.
Chicago Graduation StudioIlham Lakhal - Akshey Krishna - Luca Vacchini
PHASING DIAGRAM
MAIN opportunityCONNECTIVITY
new generation of entre-preneurs
housing the new generation
area becomes attractive
increase in activity
increase value, more housing initiatives
The SpineThe spine is meant to be a long strip running all the way along the new CTA line, with the main function to be the strong and “vital connection” of the all development. This element, that
connects the first node to the last one, is to be considered as a continuous infrastructural element giving services, organization and identity to all the area. We called it “infrastructural element” because it’s not only a public space platform but it’s also a major infrastructural line comprehending energy, water, waste management, ecological green buffer and of course movement and providing all this to the whole area.
Node three is based on the approach of reconfiguration. By reusing the existing elements in a different way, we aim to establish an intervention that could revive the area and introduce a different atmosphere. Through looking at the intervention in phases, we are able to anticipate a gradual change in the area. The two main existing programmatic elements present before intervening, were industries and residential blocks- many of which abandoned. The industries once occupied a massive area devoid of any other programme,
going against the grid in a dominant manner. Residents occupying the perimeter of the industrial area, making attempts at filling the blocks (within the grid) with houses, resulted in a terrain vague. Our approach is to break the harsh boundary between the former industries and the residential ‘’terrain vague’’ area. We introduced a new housing type that is organized in a more organic manner to open up to public spaces and create a less dense fabric allowing programs to interact.
Breaking the Grid - Superimposing CHAMPS ELYSEES , PARIS on the Urban Fabric
Breaking the Grid - Superimposing D.L.REFORMA , MEXICO CITY on the Urban Fabric
OPEN SPACES COHESION COMPACT INDUSTRIES
HOSING INTERVENTIONCOMMERCIAL, OFFICES,
PUBLIC AREAS’ DISPOSITION
Vacancies have been used to reconfigure the programs in the area and enhance the quality of it.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMERCIAL
HOTELS
RESIDENTIAL
OPEN SPACES
OFFICES
PARKING LOTS
INDUSTRIES/
WAREHOUSES
commercial hub
alternative housing scheme
recycle hub
safe hub
industrial hub
entertainment hub
transit hub
01
3
RHIzOMEStarting from the Lime Line proposal, that we considered to be more efficient as a CTA, we conceived our project thinking how this new infrastructure can enhance the development of the area. This long strip of intervention will span from north to south, going through fourteen neighborhoods. We thought that this future improvement can be the chance to intervene in a way not to over-impose programs, but looking at the elements that right now define the identities of these neighborhoods and try to enhance them. The strategy starts, this way, by analyzing the existing programs and then looking at places for future interventions and expansion. Vacancies, either in land and buildings, gave us this opportunity to give an added value to the whole area. The whole strategy develops around two main themes, the so called “spine” and the “nodes”.
CONCEPT DIAGRAM
LIME LINESTRETCH
NODECENTERS
AREA OF INFLUENCE
IDENTITIES OF NEIGHBORHOODS
The nodes have the characteristic to be conceived as peculiar situation for each one of them. We defined six according to the existing configuration of where the major infrastructures meet the Lime Line. The plan for this nodes is conceived to let them acting as elements going “against the city grid” in order to give a chance to a synergy to be created. This is reached by the meeting of two different urban patterns, where the space in between gives a clear definition for new urban dynamics to emerge and to give an identifiable character for the actual situations and the future ones.
ANALYSIS DRAWINGS
the sinergy between the two elements brings opportunities that are more than the sum of each
a new way to preceive and live the space that the discontinuity creates an identifiable scheme to follow leads to a less arbitrary way to add future interventions
SYNERGYThe Synergy between the two elements brings about a new way to perceive and use the space that the discontinuity creates an identifiable scheme to follow leads to a less arbitrary way to add future interventions.
EXISTING PROGRAM
PROPOSED PROGRAM
INDUSTRIAL HUBMany manufacturing Industries exist along the lime line without a pattern . However most of these industries are on the verge of shutting down or have already been shut down for many reasons. The proposal aims at clubbing together the industries on the south side of the lime line around the sanitary canal. The sanitary Canal could act as a source of energy production , waste disposal and transport of manufactured goods . Green Patches have been introduced around the industry buildings as public spaces in order to clean the air-pollution partially.
EXISTING PROGRAM
PROPOSED PROGRAM
recycle HUB
EXISTING PROGRAM
PROPOSED PROGRAM
commercial HUBThe area next to six corners is characterized by several commercial activities. The largest amount of people living there is below their forties and work as employees in business companies. The future node enhances the commercial character of the area for development of fair expositions and markets, also considering the strong infrastructural link to the airport. This connection, also toward the city, and the tendency of the workers living here triggers the development of a business district too.
Chicago Graduation StudioIlham Lakhal - Akshey Krishna - Luca Vacchini
PHASING DIAGRAM
MAIN opportunityCONNECTIVITY
new generation of entre-preneurs
housing the new generation
area becomes attractive
increase in activity
increase value, more housing initiatives
The SpineThe spine is meant to be a long strip running all the way along the new CTA line, with the main function to be the strong and “vital connection” of the all development. This element, that
connects the first node to the last one, is to be considered as a continuous infrastructural element giving services, organization and identity to all the area. We called it “infrastructural element” because it’s not only a public space platform but it’s also a major infrastructural line comprehending energy, water, waste management, ecological green buffer and of course movement and providing all this to the whole area.
Node three is based on the approach of reconfiguration. By reusing the existing elements in a different way, we aim to establish an intervention that could revive the area and introduce a different atmosphere. Through looking at the intervention in phases, we are able to anticipate a gradual change in the area. The two main existing programmatic elements present before intervening, were industries and residential blocks- many of which abandoned. The industries once occupied a massive area devoid of any other programme,
going against the grid in a dominant manner. Residents occupying the perimeter of the industrial area, making attempts at filling the blocks (within the grid) with houses, resulted in a terrain vague. Our approach is to break the harsh boundary between the former industries and the residential ‘’terrain vague’’ area. We introduced a new housing type that is organized in a more organic manner to open up to public spaces and create a less dense fabric allowing programs to interact.
Breaking the Grid - Superimposing CHAMPS ELYSEES , PARIS on the Urban Fabric
Breaking the Grid - Superimposing D.L.REFORMA , MEXICO CITY on the Urban Fabric
OPEN SPACES COHESION COMPACT INDUSTRIES
HOSING INTERVENTIONCOMMERCIAL, OFFICES,
PUBLIC AREAS’ DISPOSITION
Vacancies have been used to reconfigure the programs in the area and enhance the quality of it.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
ENTERTAINMENT
COMMERCIAL
HOTELS
RESIDENTIAL
OPEN SPACES
OFFICES
PARKING LOTS
INDUSTRIES/
WAREHOUSES
commercial hub
alternative housing scheme
recycle hub
safe hub
industrial hub
entertainment hub
transit hub
Recycle hub
Focus on the Recycle Hub02
Midcity largely defined by industrial corridors:02
Chosen Site
02
Humboldt Park
Austin WestGarfield Park
02
CTA Lime Line
02
notable to change a whole
neighbourhood or behavioural patterns through
social programs
02
yesAble to address
environmental issues & turn these into assets
02
the site as a landmark
Perceiving the masterplan intervention as a site that not only provides the area with something to be proud of, but also attracts people from outside
02
how could this landmark lead to improvements in the neighbourhoods?
pride
education
employment
value
02
reimagining the site as
industrial corridor 2.0 :
urban recycle park
1. accepting its industrial function and 2. facing urban waste
3. serving the site 02
DISCOVERING URGENCIES
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AS DESIGN TOOLS
03
so what are the environmental issues, locally?03
pollutant that plays a big factor in the area, on many levels:
lead contamination03
America’s Real Criminal Element: LeadNew research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime,
lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic
03
Indoors
03
Outdoors
03
Treatment
Prevention
03
Children with the highest rates elevated blood lead levels in Chicago
‘‘neighborhoods dangerously contaminated by lead’’
The choices on how best to deal with the problems have been problematic to say the least
- USA Today
- Metro Jacksonville
03
where does the problem come from?
‘....But the truth is that any neighborhood built before the mid 70s, (when lead based paints were banned in the US) is just as
likely to be contaminated and toxic---usually with lead.’’
03
03
Recycle urgency #1
lead contaminated soilhigh urgency because:
01. houses are decaying faster (demolition etc)
02. increase interest in urban farming (austin)
03. affects other resources (water)
03
how are the urgencies related?
04
01 soil
based on the block
01 test 02 evaluate 03 move topsoil
04 lay topsoil back
04 bring to site
05 from site to block
05 treat soil06 clean soil
lead absorbing plants fungi turning lead into minerals
04
Area of Intervention
My Proposed Intervention
Masterplan
04
SOIL Treatment Plant WATER Treatment Plant Compost Production Plant
The Urban Recycle Park
04
CONNECTING THE THREE RECYCLING CENTERS
ROUTE through the urban park, visiting each treat-ment plant
04
WHAT IS THE LINK BETWEEN THE LARGER MASTERPLAN AND THE BUILDING?
SMALL SCALE VERSION OF THE MASTERPLAN
04
DEFINING THE TYPOLOGY
THROUGH A PROCESS THAT TACKLES THE URGENCY OF LEAD POLLUTION IN BACKGARDENS
05
Concept
soil centremuseum
05
Cycle A: Mycoremediation Cycle B: Phytoremediation
Two ways to treat the lead-pollutedsoil:
05
Cycle A: Mycoremediation Cycle B: Phytoremediation
Two ways to treat the lead-pollutedsoil: Identifying point in the cycles
05
Studying the points & their requirements Translating these points into spaces
05
Studying the points & their requirements Translating these points into spaces
05
LABS
SEEDBANK
MIXHALLGREENHOUSE
DARKROOM
LABS
SHED
Site Integration determines composition
05
LABS
SEEDBANK
MIXHALLGREENHOUSE
DARKROOM
LABS
SHED
Site Integration determines composition
05
Logistics determines composition
05
Logistics determines compositionLogistics & Public Requirements = Inputs
For finding the right composition
05
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
05
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
Underground routing & spaces
05
HELPFUL AND NOT SO HELPFUL REFERENCES06
Agricultural & Industrial buidings
06
Wineries came closest to my typology
06
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
Underground routing & spaces
07
Going from this...
To this
07
LOGISTICS VS PUBLIC
07
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
public flow
logistic flow
static posi- exposed
depends on which plant you’re ex-posed to
seperation by seperation by seperation by seperation in height + cov-
seperation in height + cov-
indirect sunlight
soil hall dark- storage seed green-phytoremedi-mycoremedia-
labs1 labs2
I
SHED
07
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
static posi- exposed
depends on which plant you’re ex-posed to
seperation by seperation by seperation by seperation in height + cov-
seperation in height + cov-
indirect sunlight
soil hall dark- storage seed green-phytoremedi-mycoremedia-
labs1 labs2
I
public flow
logistic flow
Approach logistics/public
LABS
07
SEEDBANK
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
public flow
logistic flow
static posi- exposed
depends on which plant you’re ex-posed to
seperation by seperation by seperation by seperation in height + cov-
seperation in height + cov-
indirect sunlight
soil hall dark- storage seed green-phytoremedi-mycoremedia-
labs1 labs2
I
07
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
public flow
logistic flow
static posi- exposed
depends on which plant you’re ex-posed to
seperation by seperation by seperation by seperation in height + cov-
seperation in height + cov-
indirect sunlight
soil hall dark- storage seed green-phytoremedi-mycoremedia-
labs1 labs2
I
VERTICAL GH
07
UG exhibition spaces
07
SHED
07
LABS
07
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
static posi- exposed
depends on which plant you’re ex-posed to
seperation by seperation by seperation by seperation in height + cov-
seperation in height + cov-
indirect sunlight
soil hall dark- storage seed green-phytoremedi-mycoremedia-
labs1 labs2
I
public flow
logistic flow
DARKROOM
07
Logistics & Public Requirements = InputsFor finding the right composition
public flow
logistic flow
static posi- exposed
depends on which plant you’re ex-posed to
seperation by seperation by seperation by seperation in height + cov-
seperation in height + cov-
indirect sunlight
soil hall dark- storage seed green-phytoremedi-mycoremedia-
labs1 labs2
I
MIXING HALL
07
07 Materials & the importance of easy assembly and recycled materials
Re-using the site
- Metal/Steel from warehouses
- Scrap Metal from Cars
Recycling
Recycling into sheet metal panels (durable & low carbon footprint)
07
Materials & Climate
Greenhouse glazing
Perforated metal mesh as shading
Winter Situation
Summer Situation
Perforated metal mesh as shading
Frosted polycarbonate
SIP panels
Galvanized steel structure
Glulam beams
Cross bracing - steel rods
Steel portal frame
SIP panels
Recycled glass panels as rain-screen
Concrete shell
Slimdek floor on steel I beams
Triple polycarbonate
Highly insulated shell
07
07
SIP Panels
07
Concluding
REMOVE & EXPOSE
REMOVE & EXPOSEI believe there is a great future in these new typologies of public-ly acsessible industrial or agrarian buildings - it might even be the only way to make people more aware of our surroundings and the
waste we produce, especially in large cities as Chicago.
EXPOSE
Thank you!