Twelfth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

By the beginning of 20th century, the State of Illinois in the United States was an important manufacturing land. However, while Chicago grew up the State became one of the most centralized in the nation and townships all around started to decay, with East St Louis as the most critical case. This is something needing urgent attention now more than ever due the current State political and economic situation. Illinois Super Sites is a recent initiative to spread out the state development on a decentralized basis. These are singular parcels with a high potential of Industrial-Business development and interconnection with other locations within the State and neighbor states. The present work shows John W. Kelsey Industrial Park, a Super Site next to Greenville, in Bond County. It is located between Greenville and Smithboro, and this paper is about the hypothetical addition of an urban fabric adjacent to the last, the aggregate sector of Smithboro, we call it New-Smithboro. The included proposed project was created in the Comprehensive Studio, as part of the Master of Architecture at Southern Illinois University on spring of 2021. There’s no doubt that Illinois urgently needs decentralized trends that bring steady economic opportunities everywhere else out of Chicago area, and we propose this could be a good one.

Presenters

Rolando Gonzalez
Associate Professor / Interim Director of School of Architecture, School of Architecture, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois, United States