林肯公园社区服务丨美国芝加哥丨MKB Architects

Firm： MKB Architects

Type： Residential › Multi Unit Housing Government + Health › Community Center

STATUS： Built

YEAR： 2017

SIZE： 10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

BUDGET： $10M - 50M

Lincoln Park Community Service’s (LPCS) empowers individuals facing homelessness to access secure, stable housing, and enables individuals facing poverty to make sustainable life changes. In order to meet the increasing demand for quality services, LPCS needed a new facility: to provide a permanent supportive housing program; to grow their interim housing capacity; and support their administrative offices. MKB Architects transformed a former kitchen and bath showroom building in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago to upgrade their interim capacity, and built a new addition for LPCS’s permanent housing needs.

The building houses 48 beds for Interim Supportive Housing (shelter) and administrative offices in the renovated existing building, and 20 units of Permanent Supportive Housing in the new addition facing Sedgewick Ave. A courtyard, nestled within, provides natural light and ventilation for both buildings and serves as an adjacent outdoor space for the LPCS community to gather.

This Transit Oriented Development is directly adjacent to a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Brown Line station, allowing for enhanced accessibility to the facility for the clients and residents. The new five story addition, which faces Sedgwick Street, fosters a sense of independence through a separate entryway for the permanent housing residents, many of which are renting their first apartment. The roof terrace provides additional outdoor space for residents and accommodates fundraising events and urban agriculture. The roof terrace will be completed after the second phase of fundraising.

The project is Enterprise Green Communities certified, the country’s only national green building program designed explicitly for the affordable housing sector.