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.



NEW LARGE DESIGN PROGRAMS WITHIN ORIGINAL MASONRY PERIMETERS_PROGRAM PACKING



LARGE SCALE ADAPTIVE REUSE | EDUCATIONAL TO CONDOMINIUMS | w/ ILLINOIS LANDMARKS COMMISSION | 5 STORIES 400000 gsf. 2006-10;


LARGE SCALE ADAPTIVE RESUE | INDUSTRIAL TO OFFICE CONVERSION | w/ KOKKINO GROESBECK ARCHITECTS, CHICAGO;

LARGE SCALE ADAPTIVE REUSE | PROGRAM INSERTION INTO PREWAR TOWER NYC | SPATIAL PACKING | 10 STORIES_70000 GSF. w/ ALAN CHIMACOFF AIA ARCHITECT;

LARGE SCALE ADAPTIVE REUSE _ HOTEL TO CONDO CONVERSION | 26 STORY MASONRY | w/ JAMES FOLLENSBEE AIA ARCHITECT, CHICAGO;