Aimee Dewante has designed a master plan for a housing development and parks in Bronzeville, Chicago. The plan connects vacant land around IIT with a series of STEM-themed parks within a 10 minute walk of each other. It includes green infrastructure to manage stormwater and creates a network of parks and paths to strengthen community connections in the neighborhood.

1. aimee dewante
5100 S Cornell Ave Apt 805
Chicago, IL 60615
adewante@gmail.com
773 236 0124
Aimee has traveled far from her home
town in northern California to explore
her passions for cultural investigation,
swimming, and the art of photography.
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2. Housing Block
Individual Project
Professor Andrew Schachman
Fall 2013
Why is everyone eating alone? The celibataire is on the
rise in today’s society, despite the fact that humans
are incredibly social animals who crave interac-
tion with others. Those who do live alone must seek
opportunities elsewhere to satiate these cravings.
Why doesn’t our lonely celibataire simply eat his
microwavable pasta with his neighbors down the hall?
Better yet, why don’t they cook a meal together? In a
housing block consisting of over two hundred units,
this seems like a very real possibility. The reason it
doesn’t already happen is because our current ideas
about housing, ownership, security, and individuality
are keeping us from the kinds of opportunities social
housing could provide.
This semester I focused on a proposal that answers
this question while paying special attention to the
process of design. New methods were learned and
practiced for generating ideas and evaluating the
results in a productive way in order to create a com-
prehensive building proposal.
A housing development of this size presents the chal-
lenge of working at several different scales at one
time. Each room of each unit had to be designed while
keeping in mind the buildings these units made up,
the block the buildings resided in, and the city sur-
rounding the block.
Heavy research,iterations,and refinement were struc-
tured as a way to control the design process.
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3. Visualized Data:Distance travelled relative to activity and social level Student Unit organized by social level and time of activity
S P A C E
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Elderly
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Small Family
Driveway
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Elderly
Large Family
Professional
Small Family
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KitchenYard Entire Unit Living Room WC Bathroom Bedroom
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Small Family
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4. Catelog of unitsTop:Stair Core Approach / Bottom:Cascading Stair Approach
STUDENT UNIT
PLAN SECTION
UNIT TYPOLOGIES SOLITARY SPACE THRESHOLD
SINGLE UNIT
COUPLE UNIT
SMALL FAMILY UNIT
ELDERLY UNIT
LARGE FAMILY UNIT
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5. COUPLE + PROFESSIONAL + SMALL FAMILY CLUSTER 1 : 75
Couple + Professional + Small Family Cluster
+ STUDENT + PROFESSIONAL CLUSTER 1 : 75
Student + Student + Professional Cluster
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6. Logan Park: Master Plan
Design Partner: Phil Wira
Professors Catherine Wetzel and Paul Endres
Spring 2014
The Logan Park proposal transforms a portion of the
current boulevard system into one mile of linear parks
consisting of elements suitable to neighboring blocks
while still accommodating non-programmed leisure
space. The field house at the corner of Logan Boule-
vard and Milwaukee avenue supports these parks.
Logan Square is centered around a multi-purpose
space to be used for the weekly farmers market and
community meetings as well as special events such
as concerts and festivals.
Kedzie is redirected to the west of the square, becom-
ing a major through street and calming traffic on the
remaining three sides. This allows the square and
the boulevard parks to operate as one for recreation
and leisure.
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7. Logan Boulevard transformed into a mile of linear parks
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Front Door
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Logan Square reimagined. Above:Surface,Tree, and Traffic Plans
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9. Weekdays
Weekends
Fieldhouse
Market
Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Field house at the corner of Logan Boulevard and Milwaukee Avenue
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10. The Weft Master Plan
Design Partners: Ricardo Fernandez Gonzalez,
Kathleen Sathern, Aristeo Contreras
Professor Susan Conger-Austin
Fall 2014
The weft is the horizontal threads interlaced through
the warp in woven fabric. Without the weft, the fabric
would fall apart. Because IIT Perspectives is so iso-
lated from the Bronzeville community, and there is
an abundance of open space, our proposal is a weft
to tie the community together to form a strong fabric
rich in culture year round.
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11. Vacant Land surrounding Perspectives MSAPerspectives MSA in Bronzeville
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Ted from communiTy abundance of open space

12. Top:STEM element parks / Bottom:Walking distance between parksTop:Future development / Bottom:Strong North/South infrastructure
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Photographs:Models of Weft ParksCatelog of Weft Parks, sample page
WIND PARK:
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Path Situation
Description:
The Wind Park will be lo-
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bridge the path over the
expressway while also
connect with the stu-
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14. Bath House
Individual Project
Professor Martin Klaeschen
Spring 2013
The bath house used interior program and reinforced
concrete as a focus of study. I focused on design
process and interior lighting conditions. Natural
light manipulation drove the project and corresponds
directly with programatic elements of the building.
Project development relied on study models in which
lighting was studied in a tangible way, and through
sketches in which spatial organization was explored
to create these lighting conditions.
Section through bath house
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15. Bath House Floor Plan Top:Exterior rendering / Bottom:Massing and organization process
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Exterior Perspective

16. Tepidarium as a contemplative space Frigidarium as a space to socialize
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17. aimee dewante
5100 S Cornell Ave Apt 805
Chicago, IL 60615
adewante@gmail.com
773 236 0124
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