RESIDENTIAL + COMMERCIAL + EDUCATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTS _ DESIGN SERVICES FOR THE CURRENT ECONOMY


GENERAL PROFESSIONAL AIM

This website includes illustrations of a variety of building renovation and repurposing strategies, for consideration by private developers in response to the Commercial Real Estate Crisis.
Designs are large scale and include reconfiguation of large floor plans for new programs and vertical building additions, both spanning with steel frame and superimposed massonry.
Invested energy and invested capital are going to the chiefy metrics in this strategy, the chief measure being Project Scope, the budget for the proposed work in relation to the cost savings by employing existing context which is kept.
Representing alignment of design, fabrication and site assembly these ideas for products and services reflect near term Best Practices based strategies to economically deliver enclosure at urban scale, in an era when tools for design and delivery of buildings are fundamentally changing and make such an approach possible.



VERTICAL BUILDING ADDITIONS | TRADITIONAL MASONRY LOAD BEARING + SPANNING / TRUSSED




DORMITORY EXPANSION_TRADITIONAL MASONRY_SUPERIMPOSED CONSTRUCTION W/ BUILDING REBRANDING_LAKE FOREST COLLEGE, LAKE FOREST, IL. BUILT BY OTHERS._2000-2005.



GOLZ MOTORS, DEERFIELD, IL. | ONE STORY VERTICAL EXPANSION OVER EXISTING STEEL COLUMN GRID 100' LONGSPAN STEEL TRUSSES ON MICROPILES, WITH 40' PRECAST PLANKING. W/ THORNTON TOMASETTI, CHICAGO. 2008-2010.



SOUTH BRONX. INDUSTRIAL OFFICE BUILDING. |
ENTRY CHECKPOINT TO INDUSTRIAL PARK. PREFAB BRIDGE by EXCEL BRIDGE, SAN MATEO CA. |
W / TRUCK PARKING DECK BY GRAEFF ENGINEERING, MILWAUKEE



CHICAGO TOWNHOUSE | SUSTAINABLE IMPROVEMENTS incl SIPS PENTHOUSE, ROOF GARDEN, TURBINES, SOLAR, GEOTHERMAL. 2000-2010