Resolver Studio

Crate Town is where culture, community, and creativity happen. This hangout space transforms ordinary milk crates and industrial straps into a dynamic youth hub that supports the Lawndale community. Designed for creativity and connection, it invites the user to perform on a dynamic stage with a DJ booth for poetry, dance, or music; rest in cozy lounge zones where you can decompress, read, or vibe to the beat. Resolver Studio was a participant in the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, working in collaboration with One Lawndale Arts and Activism Incubator (@one.lawndale.arts.activism ) and the Chicago Park District (@chicagoparks ). The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival brings together neighbors, community organizations, designers, artists, students, and faith leaders to co-create sukkahs—structures inspired by Jewish tradition—reimagined as places of belonging, solidarity, and hope. After the festival concluded in late October 2025, Crate Town was moved to its permanent location in the Douglass Park Cultural and Community Center. Photos by Fionn Hui @fionn.jpg Chicago Sukkah Design Festival Organizers: @couldbearchitecture @architectureforpublicbenefit @oacchicago @lawndalepopupspot Student Designers & Volunteers: Moises @moy.arch Maria @mf_fernandes Nicholas @nicholas.papantoniou Natalie @nkurisayeg Morgan @morgggggggggggggggggggggggggg

Crate Town is where culture, community, and creativity happen. This hangout space transforms ordinary milk crates and industrial straps into a dynamic youth hub that supports the Lawndale community. Designed for creativity and connection, it invites the user to perform on a dynamic stage with a DJ booth for poetry, dance, or music; rest in cozy lounge zones where you can decompress, read, or vibe to the beat. Resolver Studio was a participant in the 2025 Chicago Sukkah Design Festival, working in collaboration with One Lawndale Arts and Activism Incubator (@one.lawndale.arts.activism ) and the Chicago Park District (@chicagoparks ). The Chicago Sukkah Design Festival brings together neighbors, community organizations, designers, artists, students, and faith leaders to co-create sukkahs—structures inspired by Jewish tradition—reimagined as places of belonging, solidarity, and hope. After the festival concluded in late October 2025, Crate Town was moved to its permanent location in the Douglass Park Cultural and Community Center. Photos 1,2,6,9 by Brian Griffin Chicago Sukkah Design Festival Organizers: @couldbearchitecture @architectureforpublicbenefit @oacchicago @lawndalepopupspot Program Partners: Chicago Architecture Biennale @chicagoarchitecturebiennial Chicago Architecture Center @chiarchitecture Open House Chicago Student Designers & Volunteers: Moises @moy.arch Maria @mf_fernandes Nicholas @nicholas.papantoniou Natalie @nkurisayeg Morgan @morgggggggggggggggggggggggggg

“The Allegory of the Boulevards” is a drawing we produced for “Common Chicago” curated and exhibited by MAS Context as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennale. It reimagines the historic Chicago Park Boulevard System not for what it was, but for what it is and can be. The ornate frame draws from medieval European frescoes harkening back to the invention of boulevards in 14th century Paris as a peripheral fortification wall–or bolwerk–turned leisurely pathway. Similarly, the Chicago Park Boulevard system, established in 1869, was once on the periphery of the City and has since become its geographic center. Fragments present along the boulevard system disrupt the ordered landscape of native prairie flora, revealing the harsh truths of this antiquated infrastructure in the context of today’s largely disinvested and heavily surveilled surrounding 23 community areas. Speeding cameras, political propaganda, territorial birds, and remembrance altars begin to narrate scenes of public intervention, activation, and coexistence with nature. The central perspective presents the boulevards as a play set in a video game. Residents are challenged with issues that disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities, and must battle to build constructive programs and activations that push forward their shared goals. Parades, Barbequing, Seasonal Markets, and Pop-up Pavilions are imagined to stretch across the 26-mile long system, encouraging use of this underutilized network of parkways, and promoting permanent solutions for housing, legal aid, recreational and arts facilities, and workforce opportunities. Public Space is a common ground. It has to be negotiated. It should serve as a collective, accessible space that promotes a sense of belonging allowing people from different backgrounds to interact…engage…unite. On display at MAS Context’s Reading Room from September 19, 2025 - January 31, 2026. Thank you to @mascontext @chicagoarchitecturebiennial Photos 1, 3 & 4 by Fionn Hui @fionn.jpg Photos 2 & 5 by Dan Kelleghan @dkelleghan

“Common Chicago” is on view at the MAS Context Reading Room until January 31, 2026. The exhibition showcases a series of recently completed and newly commissioned projects for this exhibition by Chicago-based practices that envision a shared present and future. • • • Featuring large-scale drawings, collages, and conceptual models, “Common Chicago” presents thoughtful approaches to how buildings and common spaces can contribute to a thriving, equitable, and sustainable Chicago. • • • Drawings (1) LBBA Architects (@lbba_architects ) “Dreaming of a World” (2) Norman Kelley (@norman.kelley ) “Lobby with Amphitheater” (3) Perkins&Will (@perkinswill ) “Damen Green Line Station” (4) Resolver Studio (@resolverstudio ) “The Allegory of the Boulevards” (5) Ross Barney Architects (@r_barc ) “Chicago Riverwalk“ • • • #mascontext #commonchicago #mascontextreadingroom

NEUSHOP I Neushop I redefines the relationship between identity, clothes, and community. The flagship store served a dual purpose: present products all the while providing the public with a meeting place — a discursive forum hosting talks, lectures, parties, and more. In Neushop—located in downtown Miami—a careful process of material subtraction reveals previously-hidden artifacts of the 1920s. Completed in 2015 In collaboration with Nicolas Delgado-Alcega, Gerardo Delgadillo, and Trelles Cabarrocas Architects

NEUSHOP I Neushop I redefines the relationship between identity, clothes, and community. The flagship store served a dual purpose: present products all the while providing the public with a meeting place—a discursive forum hosting talks, lectures, parties, and more. In Neushop I—located in Downtown Miami—a careful process of material subtraction reveals previously-hidden artifacts of the 1920s. Completed in 2015 In collaboration with Nicolas-Delgado-Alcega, Gerardo Delgadillo, and Trelles Cabarrocas Architects

A collection of everyday and commemorative objects on our shelves that echo in our minds and shape the work

CASA FLORIDA Casa Florida is a three-story, five-unit apartment building that derives its form, program, and materiality from observations of place. It integrates itself into the working-class neighborhood of Allapattah, playing off its industrial nature and inspired by the Caribbean culture of its residents. A courtyard invites guests to interact with each other within the confines of the ‘house,’ or ‘casa,’ allowing for serendipitous encounters that foster a sense of community. The building’s form addresses Miami’s ‘missing middle’ housing crisis—avoiding a drastic change to the existing scale and makeup of the surrounding fabric. Completed 2020 In collaboration with Nicolas Delgado-Alcega, Gerardo Delgadillo, and Trelles Cabarrocas Architects

CASA FLORIDA Casa Florida is a three-story, five-unit apartment building that derives its form, program, and materiality from observations of place. It integrates itself into the working-class neighborhood of Allapattah, playing off its industrial nature and inspired by the Caribbean culture of its residents. A courtyard invites guests to interact with each other within the confines of the ‘house,’ or ‘casa,’ allowing for serendipitous encounters that foster a sense of community. The building’s form addresses Miami’s ‘missing middle’ housing crisis—avoiding a drastic change to the existing scale and makeup of the surrounding fabric. Completed in 2020 In collaboration with Nicolas Delgado-Alcega, Gerardo Delgadillo, and Trelles Cabarrocas Architects

OUR PROPOSAL FOR THE OAK PARK FIELD CENTER Nestled among the mature trees at Field Park, our entry for a community center mediates the relationship between street and field. The curving corridor known as the ‘drift’ maintains the already successful pedestrian flow familiar to park-goers while creating a new communal gathering space along a central rain garden serving as a node that connects the existing baseball fields to new multi-purpose classrooms. A wood-formed concrete base embeds the building into the berm while a panelized metal wall system adds verticality to the building form. #architecturecompetition #communitycenter #performancespace #OakPark #chicagoarchitecture #theatredesign #danceroom #communityspace #architecture

OUR PROPOSAL FOR THE OAK PARK FIELD CENTER Nestled among the mature trees at Field Park, our entry for a community center mediates the relationship between street and field. The curving corridor known as the ‘drift’ maintains the already successful pedestrian flow familiar to park-goers while creating a new communal gathering space along a central rain garden serving as a node that connects the existing baseball fields to new multi-purpose classrooms. A wood-formed concrete base embeds the building into the berm while a panelized metal wall system adds verticality to the building form. #architecturecompetition #communitycenter #performancespace #OakPark #chicagoarchitecture #theatredesign #danceroom #communityspace #architecture

OUR PROPOSAL FOR THE OAK PARK FIELD CENTER Nestled among the mature trees at Field Park, our entry for a community center mediates the relationship between street and field. The curving corridor known as the ‘drift’ maintains the already successful pedestrian flow familiar to park-goers while creating a new communal gathering space along a central rain garden serving as a node that connects the existing baseball fields to new multi-purpose classrooms. A wood-formed concrete base embeds the building into the berm while a panelized metal wall system adds verticality to the building form. #architecturecompetition #communitycenter #performancespace #OakPark #chicagoarchitecture #theatredesign #danceroom #communityspace #architecture