Teen Living Programs

Chicago, Ill.

This new three-story center includes housing, education, counseling, health care, and life skills training. The precast concrete and glass envelope provides all the modern amenities within a warm and friendly interior. The integral color of exposed exterior precast walls and interior precast walls provides a sense of warmth and durability. The precast structure allowed for an overall shortened construction schedule. The rich color, texture, and reveals to the exterior wall panels provide a distinctive building design and presented the client with enduring, low-maintenance facades.

Precaster: Mid-States Concrete Industries
Website: www.msprecast.com

Precaster: Lombard Architectural Precast Products Co.
Website: www.lappco.com

Architect: Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
Website: www.hparchitecture.com

Engineer of record: Fisher + Partners
Website: www.fpse.com

Area: 9240 ft²
Number of stories: 3
Structural system: Precast concrete
Components:
15 bearing wall panels
27 beams
9 columns
Precast floors and roof
Precast stair tower walls
Precast elevator hoistway walls