Bay All Day

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2022|Chicago,IL,USA
Status: Project

Bay All Day is a three-flat housing project with a commercial ground floor, located at 1953 West Chicago Avenue in the East Village neighborhood. Responding to the sizable number of galleries lining W. Chicago Avenue, the commercial floor is occupied by a photography store with a functional darkroom for developing, printing, and scanning positioned near the back of the building.

The building leverages the bay window, considered vernacular to the three flat typology, as an organizational language that shapes the interior program and informs the placement of light-wells. The residential floors are designed to accommodate a variety of living styles, utilizing minimal architectural adjustments to create maximum variety. The difference produced by the floor plans allows for varying levels of rental costs offered, ideally speaking to a level of diversity reflected in the building’s future inhabitants.