1 Phasing Diagram
Multiple phases carefully coordinated with public grants.
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Project Description
Latent designed a liberated space that aims to restore and center the collective physical needs of Black young adults, Black women, and Black GNC folx on Chicago’s South Side.
Quilombo leans into the abolitionist belief that everyone deserves care first. Building connections to meet the social, emotional, mental, and physical needs of one another will set us free much sooner than solution-less critique will. Gwendolyn Brooks said it best— We are each other’s harvest, we are each other’s business. We are each other’s magnitude and bond.
Project Details
- Date
- 2025
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Area
- 15,000 SF
- Typology
- Adaptive Reuse | Community Housing
Partners
Quilombo | Client
Project Gallery
2 Program Diagram
A mixed use project re-building a corridor.
3 Collective Values
Art | History | Collective | Sustainability
4 Planning
Reprogramming the Street front Commercial Spaces.
“Creating the world that we want will have some victories, but many more failures. Let’s embrace a culture of pragmatic, radical transparency that is open and honest about our shortcomings and challenges so that others can learn from our mistakes and achieve more than we thought possible.”
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