Ben Tulman

A community emerges from an abandoned industrial site: a barren, cold, and bleak place. This site consists of 50 acres of slag filled into Lake Michigan, and two half-mile long concrete masses, which provide a reminder of a long industrial past that is noticed even more by its absence.

This is a community built on the merits of determined hard work, self-preservation, and the hope to endure in the face of powerful odds. By marshaling their labor and construction skills, this community must assemble to take ownership in its own development, maintenance, food production, and long-term land remediation of its polluted land.

Early concept sketch