51st Street Kitchen
PROGRAM: Urban Food Hub
CONSTRUCTION: Adaptive Reuse
LOCATION: Fuller Park, Chicago, IL
PROFESSORS: Dirk Denison, Maria Villalobos, & Maurice Cox
COURSE: 5th Year Fall Architecture Studio
TEAM: Arthi U, Ogulshat A, Samuel B, & Yara A
TOOLS: Rhino + Revit, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Lumion + Photoshop
The 51st Street Kitchen aims to provide a community asset that promotes Food Equity. Re-purposing Parkman School and the surrounding community into a food hub will give multi-generational access to fresh groceries, education on urban farming and healthy cooking, and training for future job opportunities. The establishment of the 51st Street Kitchen will catalyze controlled re-densification of the neighborhood along the Princeton Avenue artery, taking advantage of the existing city infrastructure and the prevalent collective drive to bring people together around a central community asset.
Food Desert
