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.



LARGE SITE DESIGN_ADAPTIVE REUSE_| BROWNFIELD DEVELOPMENT | COLLEGIATE CAMPUS REUSE | HEATMAPPING | URBAN RENEWAL



SUBURBAN SHOPPING CENTER, CHICAGO, IL.
BUILDING AND SITE LAYOUTS, PARKING, ANCHOR and LARGE TENANT BUILDINGS AND FACADE DESIGNS. 200,000 gsf. 2005-8.
with PHILIP COHEN ARCHITECTS, CHICAGO, IL.
Built by Others following 2008 Financial Collapse.



REPURPOSE 27 acre COLLEGE CAMPUS | 150 LUXURY ATTACHED TOWNHOME CONDOMINIUMS plus 50 MIDRISE CONDOMINIUMS IN HISTORIC COLLEGE LIBRARY + ACADEMIC BUILDING.
DESIGN with the ILLINOIS LANDMARKS PRESERVATION COUNCIL. 2006-2010.



LAND VALUE ANALYSIS + HEAT MAPPING.
GRAPHIC + NUMERIC LAND VALUATIONS of MANHATTAN 4 + 5 STAR HOTELS. RESEARCH FOR OVERSEAS HOTEL DEVELOPER. 2012


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LARGE SITE DESIGN_ADAPTIVE REUSE_
URBAN CIVIC PARKS_COMMERCIAL SHOPPING BROWNFIELD_CAMPUS INTO RESIDENTIAL_HEATMAPPING/URBAN LANDVALUES


BEIJING MEDIA ARTS COMMERCIAL CENTER | URBAN DESIGN
Mixed Use Commercial | Office | Urban Park, with Urban Rooftop Park. Entire Beijing Urban Block, with Media Center and Urban Landscape Slab, Intergrated with Cable 8 Arts College. 2009-2010. Competition Entry.



RIVERFRONT DESIGN COMPETITION, MILWAUKEE. URB1AN SCULPTURE GARDEN, RIVERWALK with CAFE. ELECTRONIC CALENDAR, URBAN PARK DESIGN. PARKING GARAGE IMPROVEMENTS.
LANDSCAPE: DAN KILEY| BUILDINGS: HARRY WEESE. 1984.