LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENTS

ADDRESS : 880 N Lake Shore United States

AREA : 4856 m²

ARCHITECT : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

YEAR BUILT : 1949

:glass-and-steel apartment BUILDING TYPE

Architectural style :Moderne

860–880 Lake Shore Drive is a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment tower

Lake Shore Drive apartments

 Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois

860–880 Lake Shore Drive is a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers.

Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

Construction began in 1949 and the project was completed in 1951

860–880 LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT

 The towers were added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 28, 1980, and were designated as Chicago Landmarks on June 10, modern International Style as well as essential for the development of modern High-tech architecture.

                        The two 29-story Esplanade Apartment towers, are located between Walton Place and Delaware Place on Lake Shore Drive.

Mies was careful to integrate them with the landscape by positioning them against a spacious grassy lawn.

The 900/910 buildings are much like their predecessors at 860/880 N Lake Shore Drive, as they are also positioned perpendicular to one another.

Their relationship to Lake Shore Drive differs however in that the north building is set much farther from it, providing a more open landscape.

A cor-ten steel sculpture by Richard Hunt titled ”Fox Box Hybrid” sits on this lawn.

SITE PLAN

Recognition•The buildings were finished in 1951 and were featured in a 1957 article in Life Magazineon Mies.

•In 1996 they became the first buildings designed by Mies van der Rohe to receive Chicago Landmark Status.

•The glass towers have been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.

•In June 2005, the United States Postal Service included the towers in the commemorative stamp program, Masterworks of Modern Architecture, wherein they were listed as one of the “12 outstanding examples of modern buildings

•The twenty-two-story building has reinforced•concrete frame with the columns exposed on all elevations.

•buiidings are divided into five bays and the short sides into three bays, each bay twenty-one feet wide.

•steel-framed buildings hadto be fireproofed with two inches of concrete all around the structural steel.

•The strong vertical emphasisof 860 is due to the narrow vertical I-beam rails,

•Which rise from the second floor to the roof line, welded to the columns and mullion.

STRUCTURE

FIGURES AND STATISTICS

•The twin towers are 26 stories high.

•The buildings are 46 feet apart.

•The steel skeletal frames rest on a 21-foot grid and are uniform in their design.

•The building was originally designed for 860 to contain 90 three bedroom apartments and 880 to hold 158 one bedroom apartments.

• Many of the units have been combined to enlarge living spaces

•View of Lake Shore Drive at the edge of Lake Michigan crossing the Chicago River

•Viewed from Near North Side looking north

•lake Shore Drive of Chicago River, the south border (right) of the Near North side Streeterville and north border (left) of Chicago Loop

•860–880 Lake Shore Drive

•Looking up at mullions

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

•A dramatic round window is a focal point in the private dining room at Brookdale Plaza Lake Shore Drive.

•A two-story condo in the 860-880 Lake Shore Drive building.

•880 interior.j2 bedroom living room with a view.

FACILITIES AND FEATURES

•floor-to-ceiling picture windows [ thick plate glass set in specially-designed aluminum frames ]•clean radiant heating-noexposed radiators•thermostatic heat control•optional air conditioning•electrical ranges•sliding doors •individual storage lockers•self services elevators•outdoor parking facilities

AVAILABEL SERVICES

•doorman,both buildings•valet shop•receiving room services•window washing

1. Minimum required area for apartments- 2000 sq.2. Approach way –site should be situated at minimum 12 meter wide road .3. Site should not situate at more than 100 meter distance from 18meter or above.4. Stilt floor –clear height of stilt floor will be 2.1 meter maximum .5. If stilt floor is used for other purpose then parking, then it will calculated in FAR.6. Park /open spaces / landscaping – on site of area at 3000 sq. Or more ,1sqm per person or 15% of total area at site , whichever is more is left for park or open spaces.7. Ground coverage / FAR/density- 5m set back on four side in 12.5 meter building . A. maximum ground coverage 35%. B. F.A.R. : (a) In new /developed area ;- max. Far- 2.5 (b) In developed or constructed area:-max.

Far-1.5 C. Density – (a) In new or undeveloped area -1000 person per

hectare (200 unit per hectare). (b) For economically weak group (EWG)- 500 unit

per hectare.

Norms of K.D.A. for Apartments

8. Shops – 5 shops per 1000 person.9. Area of a shop - maximum 15 sq. m .10. Gaurd room – area should 1.6 sq. (minimum width or diameter-1.2 m. ). 11. No construction in set back at any cost.12. Set back - Maximum 3 floors of 12.5 with stilt floor or 10.5 m. Without stilt floor is allowed in residential houses .

AREA OF SITE (SQ.

M ) FRONT

SET BACK

BACK

SIDE 1 SIDE 2

Row housing

up to 50 1 - - -

50-100 1.5 1.5 - -

100-150 2 2 - -

150-300 3 3 - -

Semi detached

300-500 4.5 4.5 3 -

Detached

500-1000 6 6 3 1.5

1000-1500 9 6 4.5 3

1500-2000 9 6 6 6

• Height of building depends on following certain conditions-

a. If building is situated on road of less than 30 m . Wide than height of building should not be greater than 1.5 times of sum of front set back and width of road .

Set backs for buildings, more than 10.5 m height -Height of apartment Set back on all four sides

10.5-15 515-18 618-21 721-24 824-27 927-30 1030-35 1135-40 1240-45 1345-50 14

50-above 15

Discount in set back – (i) Construction of chhajjas can be done up to 1m. Width in open spaces , which should less than half of width of open spaces ,should not consider in F.A.R.

(ii) pergola of maximum 6 sq. m . Area should have minimum 40%open spaces and 2.2 m. minimum height .Ground coverage and F.A.R.-

Constructed /developed area

(m2)

Ground coverage F.A.R.

Up to 100 75 2101-300 65 1.75301-500 55 1.5

500-2000 45 1.25Undeveloped

area

Up to 100 65 2101-300 60 1.75301-500 55 1.5

500-2000 45 1.25

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SUBMMITED BY SUMAN SHUKLAB.ARCH 3RD YEAR