Circulation within the learning spaces is exposed to public view CENTER FOR

The efficient double-skin of channel glass and ARCHITECTURE perforated metal screen provides varying degrees of shade and daylight, depending on the activities inside DESIGN AND LOOP ELEVATED RAIL

PEDWAY EDUCATION CADE PLAZA

CHICAGO RIVERWALK MICHIGAN PLAZA

PRUDENTIAL PLAZA THOMPSON CENTER PLAZA WRIGLEY SQAURE AN URBAN ASSEMBLAGE

DALEY PLAZA MAGGIE DALEY PARK EXELON PLAZA ONE SOUTH DEARBORN CHASE PROMENADE 150 SOUTH WACKER FEDERAL CENTER PLAZA NORTH GARDEN PLAZA 311 SOUTH SOUTH GARDEN

ONE FINANCIAL PLACE

PRINTER’S ROW PARK PRITZKER PARK

LED lights mark heights of historic METROPOLITAN DEARBORN PARK buildings CORRECTIONAL CENTER PLAZA

ROOSEVELT PARK

The gymnasium is visible at the level of the elevated train Translucent channel glass at galleries exposes building DOWNTOWN CHICAGO : OPEN SPACE NETWORK structure to public view CADE joins the existing network of plazas, parks, and public infrastructure in downtown Chicago.

+700’

MID 20TH CENTURY MODERNIST OFFICE TOWER + PLAZA

+600’

+500’ Light boxes in the plaza provide real-time energy data about the building and general information about Chicago EARLY 21ST CENTURY +400’ RESIDENTIAL TOWER + PODIUM

CADE +300’ LATE 19TH CENTURY TOWER + PODIUM + PLAZA = OFFICE BUILDING CULTURAL INSTITUTION

+200’ LATE 19TH CENTURY CULTURAL INSTITUTION LATE 19TH +100’ CENTURY MID 20TH CENTURY INFRASTRUCTURE MODERNIST PLINTH + PLAZA MICHIGAN AVENUE +20’ TO 42’ +15’ TO 20’ CHICAGO CITY DATUM 579.48’

CHICAGO RIVER SURFACE -0.75’ DEPTH -21’ SURFACE -2’ LAKE MICHIGAN DEPTH -922’

DOWNTOWN CHICAGO : URBAN DATUMS AND BUILDING TYPES The prototypical office building, the cultural institution, the residential tower, and the plaza are key elements of thebuilt environment in Chicago. CADE is an assemblage of these various elements, and uses LED lighting embedded in the floor plates to mark the heights of critical Chicago buildings. Through its form, CADE becomes a physical register of Chicago history.

GREEN ROOF AND ROOFTOP APIARY

FORM PROGRAM CIRCULATION ACCESS BUILDING SKIN PERFORATED METAL MESH ADMINISTRATIVE / TOWER ALLIED ARTS OVER CHANNEL GLASS YOUTH AFTER SCHOOL HIGH SCHOOL LEARNING SPACES PROGRAMMING GREEN ROOF

PODIUM CHICAGO ARCHITCTURE FOUNDATION & COUNCIL FOR TALL PUBLIC / BUILDINGS PLAZA PLAZA COMMUNITY AND URBAN HABITAT SPACES CHANNEL GLASS WITH STRUCTURE BEHIND

ROOFTOP APIARY Students help to maintain the honeybee population

LANGUAGE ARTS & SHARED LIBRARY The given parameters for this competition advocate a high-rise solution. However, a building designed to house the CAF, the DANCE STUDIOS CTBUH, and arts-oriented programs for teenagers should be a reflection of the diversity of Chicago design and its commitment to public open space. A vertical typology alone is inadequate. RECORDING AND EDITING STUDIOS We choose to expand the site to the west, opening up a confined

RADIO ARTS & PRODUCTION intersection and giving us room to develop public space at ground level. Although Chicago is famous for its high-rise innovation, it is also strongly defined by urban horizontals: plazas, parks, rail FILM ARTS & PRODUCTION lines, the river, and the lake. We take advantage of this unique history of civic-minded design to propose a project that is both

VISUAL ARTS architecturally and urbanistically significant.

The CADE assembles downtown Chicago’s fundamental urban SOUND ARTS & ENGINEERING components—plaza, podium, and tower—and organizes them in relation to the city’s great engineered frameworks of rail and water. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & The building itself seeks to be an educational device, exposing URBAN PLANNING building materials and structure for public display. The high school and after school learning spaces are stacked vertically, ARCHITECTURAL ARTS & SCIENCES with strong horizontal connections between programs that foster both technological innovation and intrapersonal collaboration.

EARTH SCIENCES We dissociate 21st-century design in Chicago from the subjective and problematic notion of “architectural character,” and instead ATRIUM HIGH SCHOOL celebrate the fundamental spatial elements that shape its urban Circulation space within the podium is programmed with temporary exhibits. ADMINISTRATION environment. We believe that aesthetics are performative, and

HIGH SCHOOL that architecture and urbanism are inseparable. ADMINISTRATION

CAF / CTBUH TERRACE CAF / CTBUH YOUTH CAFE AND ADMINISTRATION CULINARY DEPARTMENT

URBAN GARDEN / GREEN ROOF SHARED DINING HALL AND TERRACE LOBBY

GYM The high school gym is level with the elevated train. Exposed structure on the interior displays the building’s engineering. AUDITORIUM GYM

ATRIUM : TEMPORARY EXHIBITS

TEMPORARY CAF DESIGN STUDIOS AND EXHIBITS TEEN WORKSHOPS

TOUR STAGING AREA

CAF MODEL

FABRICATION LAB URBAN GARDEN The urban garden connects the main dining hall to the youth cafe and culinary department, with views east to Lake Michigan. The garden doubles as a green roof for the podium. CROSS-SECTION