ARCH 432 - FALL 2025
STUDENT
Taylor Horsfall
PROFESSOR
Malcolm McCullough
The project draws from the dense, adaptive fabric of Chicago’s industrial corridors, especially Ravenswood, to repurpose an existing hall and transform the Deagan Building’s service yard into a deliberate, enduring hotspot for its creative community. Respecting the site’s historic light-industrial architecture and present use, it expands a “community of practice” anchored by the Chicago Glass Collective and artisans ranging from glassworkers to chefs.
By activating underused outdoor spaces, and through operable screens, semi-canopies, and knee walls, the design studies the haptics of urbanism to shape human-scale interactions, guiding circulation and negotiating intense hot-glass work with spaces for learning and exchange.