Elevated Living, Engineered

Porter, a seven-story luxury residential complex located a few blocks from downtown Oak Park, IL, offers 159 units, including 153 apartments and six maisonette homes. The complex offers high-end amenities such as a fitness studio, pet spa, co-working space, and 127 covered parking spaces.

The structural design of Porter includes a two-story precast podium that supports five stories of wood construction above. Wells helped streamline the development with designing the podium to incorporate long-span double tees, which allowed for fewer columns and easier parking layouts compared to cast-in-place structures. Additional prefabricated elements like stair and elevator shafts were utilized for their cost-efficiency and speed of installation.

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