FORD RIVER ROUGE Dearborn, Michigan WORK STUDIO PRESS NEWS schtick peeps clients + collaborators contact ARCHITECTS + PLANNERS Architecture Research Office Beyer Blinder Belle Bruner/Cott Cunningham Architects Davis Brody Bond John Williams Architects Kohn Pederson Fox Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle Office of Metropolitan Architecture Office of Toyo Ito Parsons Brinckerhoff William McDonough + Partners Workshop/apd ARTISTS + DESIGNERS 2x4 Luc Sante Meg Webster Mel Chin Stacy Levy CLIENTS Allston Development Group Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Cooperation City of Chicago City of Chicago Department of Planning & Development City of San Antonio FMS Developers Ford Motor Company Friends of the High Line Global Green USA GreenWorks Joe Thompson and Sandy Frucher Lab Holdings NYC Economic Development Corporation URBN, Inc. Zilber Ltd. ENGINEERS Advanced GeoServices ARUP Haley & Aldrich Julien Engineering Kapur + Associates, Inc. Langan Engineering and Environmental Services Otak Pape-Dawson Raba-Kistner Robert Deason Roy F. Weston Southwest Research Institute HISTORIANS Brooklyn Historical Society Historical Perspectives, Inc. T. Allan Comp LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS Kate Orff MESA Group Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Nelson/Byrd/Woltz OLIN Signe Nielson Stephen Stimson Associates SCIENTISTS Andrew Hunt Bluestem Environmental Consultants Green Shield Ecology Howard Mielke LEAAF Environmental SWCA Tulane Center for Bioenvironmental Research Please Wait © 2021 D.I.R.T. studio

WORK STUDIO PRESS NEWS << BACK SOUTHWORKS Chicago, Illinois 2003 The 576-acre US Steel South Works site, once supplying the livelihood of South Chicago neighborhoods, lays fallow and baffled the city’s redevelopment department about its future. The proposed strategy of creating a strong landscape infrastructure reinterpreted the gigantic remains of ore walls along the boat basin as a landscape armature for both public and private recolonization of the historic site. In contrast to a master plan that privileged new residential and commercial tenants blocking the local citizens’ access to the lake, the alternative tactic preserved the remaining industrial structures to serve as a public realm backbone while private mixed-use development fleshes out as the market grows. One concept introduced, later implemented, called for barges to deliver clean sediment to a dirt farm beside the boat basin, where healthy soils were to be manufactured for regenerating a productive landscape. CLIENT City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development PUBLICATIONS “Contemporary Landscapes: Reclaiming Terrain,” Lotus, Fall 2006, 22-31 Please Wait © 2021 D.I.R.T. studio

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