This was an undergraduate student project by Gayle N. Phillips for John Kelleher's ARCH 441 course, Autumn 2005. A research-based project on the redux of the Chicago Tribune Tower in Chicago, Illinois. Our studio was set up to define three categories of the tower project, those being the Type, Site, and Program phases. For Type, we chose 3 tower's which in some way had a cohesive meaning, or characterization, and diagrammed these to the points we felt as a studio were most significant to the typology of a tower: base/capital condition, service space, circulation, etc. A matrix of the entire studio's diagrams was created so a relationship could be read across the board of the different towers, to their time periods and styles. Site was conducted as a journalistic perspective. We were to investigate a characteristic of Chicago we found most compelling and create a conflict driven story that was then published in a 2010 newspaper. When the issue of program came up, we decided this was a perfect time to question what the Tribune Company would want on this site. We therefore created multiple urban schemes which brought on the issue of program, and in some cases program was the device which triggered form. - Gayle N. Phillips This work is a part of the online collections of the Knowlton School of Architecture Student Archives, The Ohio State University. It is part of an effort to make accessible student work ranging from the first student that graduated from the program in 1903 to the present. The effort to preserve and digitize drawings in the Student Archives was sponsored in part by the Graham Foundation. Keywords: student work, KSA, drawings, plans, site analysis, computer renderings.
