DOWNTOWN — Imagine a six-flat with a “vertical greenhouse” at its core to connect neighbors and let in sun during the winter. Or a three-flat that devotes its yards to native plants and animals.
These ideas and others were put on display Tuesday night at the Chicago Architecture Center, 111 E. Wacker Drive, where the city asked architects to come up with affordable housing ideas as part of its Come Home competition.
The competition was created to drum up ideas for filling “missing middle density” housing in Auburn Gresham, Bronzeville, East Garfield Park, Englewood, Humboldt Park and Woodlawn, according to a Chicago Architecture Center news release. The designers’ ideas were meant to fit the needs of Chicagoans — but to also be modern, walkable and address blight from vacant lots.
Credit: Chicago Architecture Center
