GREEN WHEELS


 Live & Work. Sharing Economy.
 Chicago, Illinois
 SD.



This project develops a floor plate of the Old Chicago Main Post Office building downtown, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White in 1921. It focuses on domestic settings that employ the hybrid program known as Live/Work, where a person resides and is self - employed within the same space.


An Asian American woman runs an auto shop, where she offers mechanic services on electric cars. She mainly works on repairing electric and hybrid-electric cars, charging batteries, recycling batteries, and selling products. She operates an indoor go-kart recreation track. She lives and works under the go-kart track staying close to the speed and racing she loves. However, there is a romantic notion of living under the go-kart track like a young Alvy Singer living under the Coney island Cyclone in the film Annie Hall.

In our convoluted urbanism, lifestyle has been rigorously changed. Now, we dwell in the automobiles and feel home via simulations of being away. Furthermore, living spaces have spontaneously blended into working environments, due to new types of economies focused on experience and access. The character of multi-functional rooms in interior spaces is the key in designing for contemporary lifestyles. This project highlights the idea of interior urbanism within the context of working and living spaces and also gives the user phenomenal experience of people occupying spaces both above and near their home. 



























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