Studio 4 Design Project
Rampant Flow
Chicago, IL
- This project is located next to the Chicago CTA Green Line Garfield Station. In this project, the design is trying to challenge the traditional grocery shopping experience of moving back and forth between the shopping aisles. With the system of circular ramps and shelves along the way, the store is offering a more straightforward linear shopping experience and less face-to-face contact during shopping under post-pandemic thinking.
- The store is next to the CTA Green Line station, on the 2nd Floor. The store offers an entrance and exit to the station for easier access for the customer, which also offers a brand new possibility of circulation flow in the store beyond the typical trace of entry and exit through ground level
1F
Grocery: Produce, Beverage, Prep food, Snacks,
Other Program: Cafe, Community Gathering
- The ramp connecting the street level to the grocery store's ground floor is a semi-open space. The shelf along the way and some other shopping shelves placed in the courtyard can be used to sell the community's produce goods
- The ground floor courtyard space has a cafe and can be used as a community gathering space with the integrated stair seat along the ramp
4F
Grocery: Personal care, House hold, Other grocery3F
Grocery: Dairy, Other food product, Kitchen supply, Health products2F
Grocery: Deli, Meat, Sea food, Frozen food
Other Program: Entrance/Exit for CTA Green line station-1F
Program: Storage, Staff lounge, Loading dock, Restroom
- Across the street is the Green Line Performing Arts Center, the store courtyard can be the gathering space for people before or after seeing a show, and people can easily purchase goods for the performance through the store. The sidewalk is reconfigured to imply the store’s circulation flow is expanding beyond and across the street to connect the Performing Arts Center
This is a collaborative assignment with my classmate Chenyu Lin for the Studio 4 class. In this assignment, we are asked to develop a new, unique design concept for shared dining. Our final design was a shared hot spring pool with containers of Medicinal soup. Everyone enjoying the hot spring will also share the soup-consuming experience.