ARCH 432 - FALL 2025
STUDENT
Elliot Lavigne
PROFESSOR
Mick Kennedy
The area between Cermak Road, Grove Street, South Canal Street, and the Chicago River sits between Pilsen and Chinatown, but the site feels disconnected. Intersecting infrastructures have scarred the land, leaving it fragmented rather than continuous along Cermak. Movement is interrupted, so the site reads as broken pieces instead of one unified place. Only a few community focused nodes bring moments of activity, creating rare points of connection in an otherwise separated landscape.
Mid Mart studies the formal and programmatic characteristics of the track and the intersection between unorganized program and production as a way to create resiliency through a new market.