The original concept of this project was always supposed to be a tower that graphically spells out CHICAGO. What changed throughout the process was how these blocks would be interacted with and also be portrayed.
The first idea was to fill the boxes with the cultures that make the city what it is but I came to realize that I would not be able to include every culture and I had to quickly change my idea. I had the blocks printed but I didn’t have anything to fill them with.
I decided to use my own personal experiences and the time I had spent in the city of Chicago as inspiration for the insides and made each block as unique as possible, even creating a 3D printed book to match along the way.