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Recreation / Preservation + Restoration / Adaptive Reuse / Expansion + Modification

AIRE Ancient Baths Chicago

Client

Aire Ancient Baths

Size

19,000 SF renovation

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Strategic Partners

Box Studios, Blue Depend

Structures Construction

Awards

Architecture Masterprize, Honorable Mention in Interior Design, Hospitality, 2021

SEAOI, Excellence In Structural Engineering  William and Alys Lavicka Award, 2020

Creation of this Greco-Roman style bathhouse in this 19th century former factory building highlights the structure. But the interior work also required sculpting of the structure, including adding and removing floor framing, installing new stairs, and wedging new pools between existing foundations at the lowest level of this 8-story heavy timber framed building. Winner of the 2020 SEAOI Lavicka Award for Small Firm/Small Project.

(Top photo and first seven photos below: Juan Serrano Corbella; Last four photos below: Fernando Saz)