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NEW VILLAGE CENTER, CHANNAHON, ILLINOIS

This project was a one-board competition entry done by 4^th year architecture students at Andrews University in the spring of 1998, for a one hundred acre green-field site owned by a local Catholic parish and the Diocese of Joliet. The site was bordered on the southeast by a state road / commercial strip, on the east by a regional high school, to the north and south by conventional residential subdivisions, and on the west by a row of suburban tract housing bordering the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal. The site was being developed jointly by the parish and the Village of Channahon, and called for a mixed use program including a new parish church, school, and athletic fields, a village hall, retail and office development, and a mix of low-rise high-density housing.