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Aaron
Kang
Smithson


ARCHITECTURE︎︎︎
  1. Hinge House
  2. Lakeside Grove
  3. Forgotten Fort Kongenstein
  4. 1.5-Loaded Corridor
  5. Walnut Park Place
  6. Out of Office
  7. Constructed Nostalgia
  8. Two Blocks
  9. Elsewheres
  10. Ordinary, Except
  11. Sketches

PLANNING︎︎︎
  1. Lynntercept
  2. Housing Lynn
  3. Roxbury Planning Ideas
  4. NYC Urban Design Principles
  5. Ancel Plaza

WRITING & PUBLICATIONS︎︎︎
  1. Journalistic
  2. MoMA
  3. Academic
  4. Graphics/Editing

INFO︎︎︎
 Aaron is a designer, planner, and writer based between NYC and the Boston area. He is most interested in affordable and multifamily housing design, public architecture, urban design, and participatory planning practices.
Mark

7. Constructed Nostalgia


Harvard GSD
Construction Systems, Fall 2021
Critic: Yasmin Vobis

Partner: Emily Hsee



BKSK Architects’ Nike Store in SoHo, New York is a tribute to its surroundings and historical context. The building’s ornamented terracotta rainscreens and metal shading fins conjure the depth and details of SoHo’s quintessential factory facades. Tasked with articulating how nostalgia can be rendered through construction details, we focused on the corner of the building’s envelope. Here, materials coalesce to evoke the form and dimensions of obsolete cast-iron industrial architecture. Staged among the materials of its creation and the products the depicted building was designed to sell, the model is expressed as a fabricated, sculptural object.

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