“We are living in an incredibly exciting and slightly absurd moment, namely that preservation is overtaking us.” —Rem Koolhaas

How do we design with time in mind? In architectural preservation, how do we balance between historic significance and obsolescence?

The McCormick Place Lakeside Center, a 800,000 Chicago modernist super-structures, is one of the examples of obsolescence buildings too costly to maintain or to be torn down with current exhibition standards. This poposal, measuring extreme bigness at smaller scales, images a dynamic yet flexible living situation, which brings new meaning onto lakeside Chicago urban fabric. With the original building broken down, and materials recycled, pre-fabricated modern mobile houses can “plug in” to the remaining column grids, forming new low-cost living communities for students, artists and visitors.