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OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ADJAYE ASSOCIATES CONTENTS I URBAN II LIBRARY III NET-ZERO IV DESIGN APPROACH IN THE PARK STRATEGY VISION OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 2 I URBAN APPROACH OUR PROPOSAL RE-IMAGINES THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY TO BE THE FIRST TRUE URBAN LIBRARY. OPERATING ON MULTIPLE SCALES OF RENEWAL — INDIVIDUAL, URBAN, ECONOMIC, AND ECOLOGICAL — THE NEW LIBRARY ACTIVELY ENGAGES THE COMMUNITY WITH UPDATED INFRASTRUCTURE AND NEW BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 3 WASHINGTON PARK SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO WASHINGTON PARK • 7 MILES SOUTH OF THE LOOP • NEAR MIDWAY AIRPORT • HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT SITE • GATEWAY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO • EASILY ACCESSIBLE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 4 GARFIELD BOULEVARD HISTORICALLY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 5 GARFIELD BOULEVARD TODAY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 6 WASHINGTON PARK “LUNGS OF THE CITY” WASHINGTON PARK • CONSTRUCTED IN 1870’S • DR. JOHN RAUCH THE FOREFATHER OF THE CHICAGO PARK SYSTEM DESCRIBED IT AS “THE LUNGS OF THE CITY” • DESIGNED BY FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED & CALVERT VAUX • EARLY ATTRACTIONS TO THE PARK INCLUDED RIDING STABLES, CRICKET GROUNDS, BASEBALL FIELDS, A TOBOGGAN SLIDE, ARCHERY RANGES, A GOLF COURSE, BICYCLE PATHS, ROW BOATS, HORSESHOE PITS, GREENHOUSES, A ROSE GARDEN, A BANDSTAND, A SMALL ZOO FEATURING SIX ALLIGATORS, AND A LILY POND • IN THE 1920’S BLACK SEMI-PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL TEAMS PLAYED AT WASHINGTON PARK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 7 BUILDINGS IN THE PARK 3 WASHINGTON PARK • WASHINGTON PARK HAS A GREAT HISTORY OF SIGNATURE BUILDINGS WITHIN THE PARK • THE PARK CONSERVATORY AND SUNKEN GARDEN DESIGNED BY 2 DANIEL BURNHAM WAS DEMOLISHED DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION DUE TO LIMITED RESOURCES 1 4 6 1 RACE TRACK 2 FOUNTAIN OF TIME 3 SUNKEN GARDEN 4 BOAT HOUSE 5 REFECTORY 6 CONSERVATORY 5 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 8 WASHINGTON PARK TODAY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 9 CHICAGO “CITY IN A GARDEN” URBS IN HORTO CHICAGO’S MOTTO—URBS IN HORTO—MEANS “CITY IN A GARDEN.” WASHINGTON PARK IS PART OF A NETWORK OF HUNDREDS OF PARKS, COVERING MORE THAN 8,000 ACRES. LEFT: DANIEL BURNHAM’S 1909 PLAN FOR THE FUTURE OF CHICAGO. WASHINGTON PARK WASHINGTON PARK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 10 CHICAGO MUSEUM IN A PARK THE PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM MUSEUM IN PARCO AN OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM IN WASHINGTON PARK WOULD BE CONNECTED TO A INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICAN ARTS & CULTURE LARGER NETWORK OF WORLD-CLASS INSTITUTIONS ALSO LOCATED WITHIN CHICAGO’S PARK LAND. THERE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ARE CURRENTLY 11 MUSEUMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY HOSTED WITHIN PARK DISTRICT LAND. IN 2012 THEY WERE VISITED BY NEARLY 8 MILLION PEOPLE, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO INCLUDING 1 MILLION SCHOOL CHILDREN. 1 ADLER PLANETARIUM JOHN G. SHEDD AQUARIUM 2 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 3 ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ADLER PLANETARIUM 4 MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 5 CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART 6 NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MEXICAN ART THE FIELD MUSEUM 7 DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY 8 THE PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM 9 THE FIELD MUSEUM 10 JOHN G. SHEDD AQUARIUM 11 INSTITUTE OF PUERTO RICAN ARTS & CULTURE 12 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 11 SITE ACCESS AND CIRCULATION THE THE “L” “L” TRAIN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DRIVE JR. KING LUTHER MARTIN 51ST STATION GARFIELD STATION GARFIELD BLVD. MIDWAY AIRPORT AND EXPRESSWAY ACCESS 1/2 MILE FROM CAMPUS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 12 EXISTING FABRIC PROVIDENT DUSABLE HOSPITAL HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL GUARD BEASLEY ELEM. ARMORY SCHOOL WALTER DYETT HIGH SCHOOL BURKE ELEM. SCHOOL KOZMINSKI COM ACADEMY U OF C HOSPITAL COMMERCIAL WASHINGTON PARK REFECTORY DUSABLE AFRICAN WASHINGTON PARK AMERICAN MUSEUM PUBLIC POOL CARTER ELEM. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 13 SITE SOCIAL HISTORY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY TRANSITION AND CHANGE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS BEEN A TRANSITION FROM EUROPEAN STRONG ANCHOR OF SOUTH SIDE AMERICAN TO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES COMMUNITIES DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DRIVE IN 1968, WHAT WAS GRAND BOULEVARD, THEN SOUTH PARK WAY, WAS RENAMED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DRIVE. ST. MARY’S AFRICAN METHODIST GARFIELD BLVD. WAS THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH THRESHOLD BETWEEN THE ESTABLISHED IN 1897, THE OLDEST BLACK IRISH COMMUNITY TO THE CONGREGATION IN THE AREA NORTH AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO THE SOUTH BETHESDA BAPTIST CHURCH SOLD TO BLACK BAPTISTS IN 1925 ORIGINALLY B’NAI SHALOM TEMPLE ISRAEL AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPANSION DURING GREAT MIGRATION DUSABLE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ST. ANSELM CHURCH THE DUSABLE MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IS THE FIRST BUILT IN 1909 BY IRISH CATHOLICS AND OLDEST MUSEUM DEDICATED BECAME A BLACK PARISH IN THE 1930’S TO THE STUDY AND CONSERVATION ONE OF THE EARLIEST BLACK CATHOLIC OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY, PARISHES IN THE CITY CULTURE, AND ART. SS. CONSTANTINE AND HELEN GREEK ORTHODOX RESIDENTS BUILT THE CHURCH IN 1909. BY 1928 WAS ENTIRELY AFRICAN AMERICAN OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 14 1919 RACE RIOT RACIAL CONFLICT WASHINGTON PARK WAS A HOTBED OF RACIAL TENSION DURING THE 1919 RACE RIOT. WITH THE GREAT MIGRATION, POST WWI TENSIONS, AND COMPETITIVE LABOR AND HOUSING MARKETS CAUSING FRICTION BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS, THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO WAS THE EPICENTER OF VIOLENCE. OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 15 POPULATION DECLINE 1930 44,016 POPULATION 1960 43,690 1990 19,425 2000 14,146 WASHINGTON PARK COMMUNITY AREA 2010 11,717 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 16 CHANGING BUILDING DENSITY 1938 2013 FROM 1938 TO 2013 THERE HAS BEEN A 70% REDUCTION IN BUILDING DENSITY OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 17 URBAN BLIGHT 1938 2013 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 18 CITY-OWNED VACANT PROPERTY THE CITY OWNS 15,373 VACANT PROPERTIES. 642 ARE LOCATED IN WASHINGTON PARK, ONE OF THE HIGHEST CONCENTRATIONS. OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 19 SCHOOL CLOSURES OVERTON ATTUCKS FRANCIS PARKMAN 50 SCHOOLS HAVE CLOSED WITHIN THE LAST YEAR. 7 LOCATED AROUND WASHINGTON PARK. ROSS SEXTON TILL YALE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 20 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEW START We are the ones we have been waiting for. Alice Walker OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 21 THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM WASHINGTON PARK OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 22 3 ECONOMIC ENGINES 3 2 1 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 23 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM 1 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM A NEW OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM WILL ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY, MAXIMIZE ECONOMIC IMPACT, AND DRIVE THE POSITIVE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO 1 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 24 URBAN HUB 2 2 URBAN HUB NEIGHBORING THE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY THE NEW URBAN HUB BECOMES THE ECONOMIC EPICENTER OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO. COMMERCIAL AND RETAIL BUILDINGS ARE ANCHORED AROUND AN OBAMA PERFORMING ARTS THEATER, PUBLIC PLAZA, AND COMMUNITY CENTER. AN EXPANDED TRANSPORTATION STATION AND UNDERGROUND PARKING PROVIDE CONVENIENT CITY-WIDE ACCESS. OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 25 REACTIVATE GARFIELD BOULEVARD 3 ECONOMIC IMPACT THE CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY HAS SPARKED AN ESTIMATED $2 BILLION IN NEW PROJECTS IN THE LITTLE ROCK AREA AND OVER $1 BILLION IN NEW REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT. 3 REACTIVATE GARFIELD BOULEVARD REVITALIZING GARFIELD BOULEVARD WILL CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW URBAN CONNECTIONS ALONG THIS HIGHLY TRAFFICKED EAST-WEST CORRIDOR; FROM THE EXPRESSWAY TO THE PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, THE UNIVERSITY TO LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE BROADER REGION OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 26 GARFIELD BLVD. KEY BUILDINGS 1 COMMUNITY BUILDING 2 RETAIL 3 ACE TECH SCHOOL 4 SCHULZE BAKING CO. 5 CHICAGO CITY CHURCH 6 THE NEW LIFE CENTER 7 ARTS INCUBATOR 8 FIELDHOUSE 2 3 4 I 8 5 6 7 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 27 GARFIELD BLVD. VACANT PROPERTIES 1 ABANDONED HOUSING 2 DILAPIDATED BUILDINGS 3 SHUTTERED RETAIL 4 VACANT LOTS 3 2 1 4 OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 28 GARFIELD BLVD. TRANSPORTATION 1 RAIL YARDS 2 DAN RYAN EXPRESSWAY 3 GARFIELD L STATION MLK. JR. DRIVE 1 3 2 COMMERCIAL RAIL AMTRAK PARKING MICHIGAN AVE. CTA RED/GREEN LINE OBAMA PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY │ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO │ ADJAYE ASSOCIATES 29 A