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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

9. Elsewheres

Harvard GSD
Architecture Core 2 Studio, Spring 2021
Critic: Sean Canty



Writing in 2011, the architectural historian Amir Ameri described the experience of going to the movies as “a journey out to an elsewhere,” shaped by the physical and psychological transition that takes place between the sidewalk (the realm of the “real”) and the screen (the realm of the fictive). Elsewheres is a proposed cinema and film archive located on a studio lot in Boston’s Seaport district. With a chromosomal plan that nestles into a wedge-shaped site between two film sheds, the shed-like building celebrates the transitional spaces between large theaters and smaller screening rooms. Its largest cinema and exhibition space sit within a rectangular prism that tilts upwards to enable entry through its underbelly. This unusual descent frames the outset of the moviegoer's "journey out to an elsewhere."






In the cinema's film archive, interior volumes step down incrementally towards the point of convergence between the building's two main volumes. This generates a cascade of small screening rooms and open terraces that can be adapted for a variety of uses, including private study and storage.
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