Title: North Austin Community Center
Where: Chicago, Illinois
Type: Educational
Size: 152,000 SF

With: Present Future Architects
Client: By The Hand Club for KIds
When: to be completed 2022

Chicago Neighborhoods Initiative (CNI), By The Hand Club For Kids (BTH), Intentional Sports and Grace and Peace Church are coming together to create an inspirational complex in the north Austin community.

This new community center will include a full sized FIFA regulation indoor turf soccer field, multiple basketball & volleyball courts, batting cages, performance training, physical therapy, large multi-functional assembly room and classrooms for K‑12 after-school tutoring. There are also outdoor athletic spaces and playgrounds for additional community involvement. Construction broke ground in September of 2021 and completion is scheduled for late 2022.


Street view from SW corner. 

Massing + Program distribution



Block by Block - Content | Materiality | Structure 


1. Soccer Field

Right: Interior view of soccer field. Tilt-up concrete walls with open web joists span 217’ wide Left: At volume3 looking towards volume 1

2. Intentional Sports Hub - Volleyball + Basketball courts

3. Intentional Sports Hub - Performance training, E-sports, Athletic viewing

4. Middle ground - Lobbies (East, West) + Courtyard

Right: Interior view of east lobby. Left: Exterior Courtyard

5. BTH School 

NACC - School and West Lobby exterior Elevation

Interior close-up - furniture layouts + color palettes


Level 1 plan and interior renderings
Level 2 plan and interior renderings