parking
edificio de estacionamiento para mil autos, 30000m2
2003, kennedy expressway, chicago, il, eeuu
nicolas d’angelo
arquitecto
the chicago prize competition
seleccionado como finalista
exhibido en art institute of chicago, junio 2003
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Due to its main function as a parking garage and to its peripheral location on the Kennedy Expressway, the building acts as a signal, pulling users away and into the city.
From the speed of the car, the perception of the city could be assimilated to that of reading a map: driveways as lines, buildings as points, references. The image of this building evolves quite literally from this idea.
Sitting on vacant land bordering the expressway to the east, closer to the expanded Loop it is connected to and further from the neighbour residential district to the west, the building renders mute in the distance, a piece of infrastructure somewhat disengaged from the eventful city fabric.
The parking plan is the geometrical and dimensional core from which the exterior design derives. An array of 9 feet wide by 20 feet tall red coloured pre-cast panels with1 foot circular perforations encloses all levels above ground forming a box, only interrupted at the top to the west, where the panels are replaced by glazing.
This event reflects a change in function but also introduces the idea of building as vessel.
Below the box, the ground floor level acts as an interface to proximate street life, linking concurrent forms of transportation, organising car access to parking, bus and taxi stops, bicycle parking and rental. Extending as a park, this ground floor could collect pedestrians coming from the denser and richer corridor Madison street is expected to become in the future.
There’s a symmetry of role for the first and last floors, both are ‘non-parking’. The first enables the main function function of the building, the second gives way to its deactivation. The last run of the ramp is no longer for cars but a garden leading to silence, sky, air, and a variety of other programs.
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parking structure for a thousand cars, 30000m2
2003, kennedy expressway, chicago, il, eeuu
nicolas d’angelo
architect
the chicago prize competition
selected as finalist
exhibited, art institute of chicago, june 2003
Due to its main function as a parking garage and to its peripheral location on the Kennedy Expressway, the building acts as a signal, pulling users away and into the city.
From the speed of the car, the perception of the city could be assimilated to that of reading a map: driveways as lines, buildings as points, references. The image of this building evolves quite literally from this idea.
Sitting on vacant land bordering the expressway to the east, closer to the expanded Loop it is connected to and further from the neighbour residential district to the west, the building renders mute in the distance, a piece of infrastructure somewhat disengaged from the eventful city fabric.
The parking plan is the geometrical and dimensional core from which the exterior design derives. An array of 9 feet wide by 20 feet tall red coloured pre-cast panels with1 foot circular perforations encloses all levels above ground forming a box, only interrupted at the top to the west, where the panels are replaced by glazing.
This event reflects a change in function but also introduces the idea of building as vessel.
Below the box, the ground floor level acts as an interface to proximate street life, linking concurrent forms of transportation, organising car access to parking, bus and taxi stops, bicycle parking and rental. Extending as a park, this ground floor could collect pedestrians coming from the denser and richer corridor Madison street is expected to become in the future.
There’s a symmetry of role for the first and last floors, both are ‘non-parking’. The first enables the main function function of the building, the second gives way to its deactivation. The last run of the ramp is no longer for cars but a garden leading to silence, sky, air, and a variety of other programs.