Walmart is an Invasive Species to the mom and pop businessowner. Asian Carp is an Invasive Species to North American. Humans are thelargest Invasive Species to the World. What happens when all three of theseinvade each other in the city of Chicago? It is I.S. Park.

Walmart is a supermarket on steroids flexing it’s swollenbiceps around the US. Its home gym is in Arkansas where it began in 1962training as a lightweight. In the 1970’s Walmart spread it’s wings and begangaining weight to compete with the middleweights. Then in the 1990’s it hitit’s magnum opus with the heavyweight division Walmart Supercenter. Mayor Daleyof Chicago recently announced the arrival of a Walmart that is at the top ofhis game challenging anyone in 2012.

Asian Carp, also known as A.C., is a transplant contender.Brought to Arkansas in the early 1970’s A.C. trained in the aquaculture ringcombating Algae Growth (A.G.). A.C. outgrew the aquaculture and began its NorthAmerican tour, when exactly is hard to pin point. Some say A.C. got out duringthe 1980’s and some say during the floods of the 1990’s. However, A.C. got outand has been wreaking havoc since, traveling north along the mother of allrivers the Mississippi River. Battled in St. Louis knocking out recreational boatersand breaking jaws in the Illinois, has even sliced the skin of fisherman withfins. Word around the federal gym is that A.C. is poised to arrive in Chicagoin 2012. A.C. has been training in the Illinois River gym and gathering afollowing. These two contenders will face off in Chicago, the year will be 2012and the venue will have to house a ring large enough and strong enough tocontain them.

Invasive Species
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This project is my thesis project for the 2011 MArch degree at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning (TC Read More

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