creator Turgeon, Noel advisor Felsen, Martin MONUMENTAL ADAPTATION: REIMAGINING THE OLD CHICAGO POST OFFICE Built in 1932, the Old Chicago Main Post Office was the largest post office in the world at three million square feet. It was designed to accommodate the extension of Congress Parkway and in 1953 the Eisenhower Expressway cut a void through the center of the building. Finally the Post Office was vacated in 1997 and remains unused to this day. This project proposes the adaptation of the Post Office into a hybrid fieldhouse that contains public recreation and retail space. This proposal keeps the Post Office public, utilizing income generated through retail to maintain the building for Chicagoans. Recreation program is inserted into voids carved out of the original building. Retail occupies the peripheral space, surrounding the voids. Submitted by noel turgeon (nturgeon@iit.edu) on 2012-05-02T02:30:00Z No. of bitstreams: 2 NT_final boards.pdf: 6557581 bytes, checksum: bc481a406812cff78a82975eb846f662 (MD5) NT_masters project_final book.pdf: 16240187 bytes, checksum: 66c4c83b2b876262854fb7893ec43fe1 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-05-02T02:30:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 NT_final boards.pdf: 6557581 bytes, checksum: bc481a406812cff78a82975eb846f662 (MD5) NT_masters project_final book.pdf: 16240187 bytes, checksum: 66c4c83b2b876262854fb7893ec43fe1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 2012-05-01 2012-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2721 en Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/ post office fieldhouse recreation retail Adaptive reuse Redevelopment planning Master's project born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Open Access Still image Cartographic material Plan Sections Site plan ARCH / Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department