The program content and management to meet the expectations expressed by the client to provide a housing type T4 within certain parameters. The current building, for her portrayal structure, architecturally defined, and its close relationship with the adjacent facades of the project, presented by way of maintaining this facade and to submit only the necessary adjustments resulting from the introduction of a new range to to access by car into the new house.

Pretending to this facade incorporating new materials with existing ones. The programmatic increase over the current situation culminated in the demolition of existing housing, the building, the introduction of a new floor and the compatibility of the facade with a new program, required the adoption of solutions such as a lifting platform car parking and to improve dialogue between people and place, through the different slopes and the proposed construction.

The second floor of this proposal consists of two bedrooms, one bathroom and one suite. The suite oriented towards the east and in total harmony with spaces for the couple and the other bedroom faces west and in constant visual contact with the street.

In the new level 0, limited to the current area of the property, developing a parking space, kitchen and dining area, obtaining an optimal space for the living room and office (intermediate). These new flats are linked to each other and try to meet the expectations of customers, through the restructuring and functionality, re-qualifying the “image” of the new housing.

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Commentor David Steele, a writer for Buffalo Rising and architect in Chicago, underscores what may be a preservation dilemma in the potential restoration of what was dubbed Larkin Station #6 in the mail-order company’s property inventory – if, as time goes by, such an opportunity emerges. In this unique preservation case, there is the potential to restore both a highly-intact, rare 1960s metal panel facade, or to unveil and restore an even earlier, and more rare, 1929-30 Art Deco facade.

Here’s the problem, according to Steele: a decision would have to be made that would involve either removing a retro 1960s facade that has itself gained historical value over time, or continuing to hide what may be an older, and potentially more interesting facade of Roaring Twenties vintage. The 1960s facade has real value, as Steele points out. It is the sort of pop architecture that is evocative of Route 66 and the highways and biways of America’s forgotten hinterlands, about which many writers and photographers have devoted significant interest in recent years.

The question is a happy one. Inherent in the seeming dilemma is the reality that there may eventually be an opportunity to restore at least one of the facades. That’s a good thing. The former gas station has been vacant for as long as many current high school students have been alive. It’s a miracle it still stands, given the mixed record of preserving interesting buildings in the Hydraulics.

Time will certainly tell. Gas stations, as building types, have yet to gain considerable traction as targets of historical preservation, especially in cities where landmarks of arguably greater significance are still at risk. But as things continue to look up in the Hydraulics, finding a reuse for this unpolished gem of roadside architecture seems not too unlikely a possibility.

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