Electric Walkway
Design proposal for the reuse of the Bloomingdale Line in Chicago, 2008
Team: Clare Lyster with Carlyn So
Client: Chicago Architecture Club
The project explores the re-use of an abandoned 2.5 mile elevated freight-line in Chicago as a new transportation artery that links O’Hare Airport with the North Side of the city. A series of high-speed walkways (travelators) occupy the upper-side of the embankment connecting to other transportation corridors in the city—the river, the highway, the city train system. The travelators, typically interior circulation systems are brought outside conceiving the city as a continuum of artificial urban surfaces and serves to extend the airport beyond the boundary of O’Hare into the city.
