Rehabilitation: Optimo Hat Factory

Optimo Hat Factory

The act or process of making possible a compatible use for a property through repair, alterations, and additions while preserving those portions or features which convey its historical, cultural, or architectural values. The rehabilitation standards acknowledge the need to alter or add to a historic building to meet continuing or new uses while retaining the building’s historic character.

Renovation diagrams display old and new features of a building in the same drawing utilizing colors to differentiate the objects.

This project repurposed a firehouse station that was sold for a dollar during the Chicago’s Large Lot program where the initiative was to renovate a building by investing locally and revitalize the neighborhoods.

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