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  Chicago Underground Practice
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Storytelling is a form of talk therapy. 
FUTURE PRENTICE creates a platform for people to gather.

As in Mark Twain's well known story, the newly constructed tale of the Prentice & the Pauper physically links two unacquainted characters.
The relationship between the Prentice & the Pauper reveals a cyclical life lesson applied in the present day context of Chicago.
Can the engineering marvel of the Prentice and its historic position be retold to a new generation by the Pauper; via the introduction of a common architectural element?
In this new tale, the Prentice plays herself, and the role of the Pauper is performed by a civil servant known as Staircase.
The life lesson of the Prentice & the Pauper is a simple one...
A city is a story & every story is a city.
Everyone has a story.
Stories adapt & change over time as a direct link to the storyteller.
Storytelling is a disappearing art form.
The FUTURE PRENTICE will elevate everyone to tell their stories.
The Goldberg Storytelling Center provides a platform for expression.
A staircase elevates everyone. 

FUTURE PRENTICE design process builds FOUR Storeys of Matter.
Solid Storey = Static condition
Ground plane lacking any space for public use.
Podium building conceals poured in place concrete marvel.
Liquid Storey = Non-equilibrium condition
Remove Podium building’s curtain wall & floor slabs.
Bed tower made into a one storey auditorium spaces.
Gas Storey = Equilibrium condition
Water basin is symbolic storytelling archive.
Staircase creates cantilevered landscape.
Plasma Storey = Public condition
Atrium delivers natural light to all four stories.

Location: Chicago, IL. US
T. Joseph Surjan - design scientist & writer
S. Hjelte Fumanelli - project architect & digital modeling


Chicago Underground Practice is a team of design scientists.


Hours

M-F: 24-7

Telephone

312-543-7783

Email

tsurjan@gmail.com
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    • TIGERMAN'S_ARK
    • SOS_TIGERMAN
    • Paris_Wheat
    • Timepiece
    • Notre Dame de Paris
    • Unbuilt Utzon
    • JUST
    • Boxing Mies
  • 2018
    • Drawing Precedents
    • Extruded Village
    • City of the Morfar
    • OBJECTIVE
    • Building Curriculum Curriculum Building
    • La Città del Nonno
    • SW/TCH
    • Manhattan Giants
    • Luca's Box
    • Big, Soft & Orange
  • 2017
    • Jane's Edge
    • Last H20 on Mulholland
    • SUPPORT
    • Fresh Meat IX
    • House of Morfar
    • Broadway Billboard
    • The Propaganda of Desire
    • Posters for Change
    • Under the Dome
    • The Unsolicited Sideshow
  • 2016
    • Black Holes of Architecture
    • Snell's Window
    • Bipolar City
    • Moneta's Museum
    • SPAN City
    • Stream of Glass
    • PoPA: Pavilion of POP Art
    • SLoB
    • Woman's Work
    • Love Child
    • SLoB 2.0
    • TEMPLE of アッコロカムイ
  • 2015
    • Crimes of Architecture
    • 44 Vaults
    • Authenticity
    • It was a Very Good Year
    • Imagination takes Power
    • State of the Art of Architecture
    • A Dinosaur, a Colossus and a Giant
  • 2014
    • CAAD: Curtains Photo Competition
    • Face On Publication
    • Designing for Free Speech
    • Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
    • Hello Nature
  • 2013
    • Triangle Fire Memorial
    • CAAD: Curtains UT Competition
    • Change the Face
    • Reimagine the Astrodome
    • Fairy Tales I
  • 2012
    • its Liquid
    • Future Prentice
    • The Monumental Competition
    • Arch Triumph