2018 Chicago Prize Competition: Crossing the Line

The project zooms in to the architecture of city prisons as isolated islands surrounded by hard walls and the incarcerated themselves as surrounded by invisible lines once they re-enter their communities. Within Chicago’s context, the project examines the Metropolitan Correctional Facility and proposes a connection through the skyline to the Harold Washington Library - bridging what could be considered the most physically secure and separated to the most freely public and engaged architectural institution.