Chicago, a city of urban experimentation, a city where the implications of densification were tested at its time, a city with skyscrapers, but one that lacks public infrastructure in terms of urban assets related to culture, a city that does not produces any goods. This project reshapes the most famous public transportation infrastructure in the city, the “L” or elevated train. The concept is to wrap the elevated train tracks with a cultural envelope and then cap it with a food production system. By doing that, current problems are solved, such as high noise and aesthetic ugliness of the existing infrastructure.
The right image shows the Loop (downtown) in Chicago and frames the zone of impact of this project. The rectangle seen in the image corresponds to the current elevated train system, better known as CTA. The main idea of this project is to take advantage of current urban infrastructure and generate over it what can be a food production system. It is good to mention that the system can be replicated outside the Chicago downtown and propagated over the rest of metro lines that include elevated portions of train tracks.
