PROJECT OVERVIEW

Casa Durango was designed for affordable multifamily housing. The Resurrection Project has been a longstanding developer in the Pilsen community, and they called on architectural firm DesignBridge to help craft a high-quality building that would deliver maximum housing units to the site while blending in with the historic community around it.

Read more about this project in the Winter 2026 issue of Ascent.

PRECAST SOLUTION

Total–precast concrete quickly emerged as the building material of choice. Minimizing disruption and enhancing speed of construction were the drivers behind using total-precast concrete.

Owners

The Resurrection Project

Architect

DesignBridge

Contractor

Linn-Mathes Inc.

Structural Engineer

Virgilio and Associates

Precast Concrete Producer

ATMI Precast

Photo Credit

A-Tech Aerial

Key Project Attributes

• Casa Durango contains 37 affordable housing units with first-floor, on-grade parking for approximately 30 cars along with building amenities that include a community room, bike storage, and on-site laundry.
• The building had to be energy efficient and provide as many housing units as possible.
• Minimizing disruption and enhancing speed of construction were important.

Project/Precast Scope

• The entire structure is built of precast concrete, including hollow-core floor and roof slabs, demising walls, elevator and stair shafts, and architectural load-bearing exterior walls.
• The precast concrete producer used a custom formliner detail adjacent to the structure’s windows to add visual variety and make the apertures appear larger.
• It took about 30 days to erect all the precast concrete.