Pierscape at Navy Pier Phase II Design Team Organization + ...

Faithful+ Gould
Ford Calumet Environmental Center, Chicago Department of Environment
Calumet, IL
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Faithful + Gould was hired by Studio Gang Architects to provide cost estimating
services on the Ford Calumet Environmental Center, an $11,000,000, 30,000
square foot facility. Faithful + Gould provided budgets for schematic design, design
documents and construction documents. The site, a 117 acre marsh, is located
amongst fragmented patches of abandoned lots and emergent marshlands, shuttered
and working factories, parking lots, and towns. This marsh is on the hinge of
two major drainage basins and is an important stop for migratory birds along the
Mississippi fly way. The presence of these rare birds was the impetus for the
project; community members began organizing informal bird walks. The idea for the
landscape was to “reset” the forest succession process and diversify the habitat
profile in order to support a wider range of bird and animal life.