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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

8. Two Blocks in Alphabet City

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




The 1954 construction of a school building in New York’s Alphabet City permanently severed East 5th Street from its intersection with Avenue C. Now culminating in a cul-de-sac and courtyard, the dead-end thoroughfare ruptures the surrounding grid, precludes chance encounters, and cuts off circulation between city blocks that host critical social and cultural infrastructure. Using vibrant colors and divergent oblique projections to capture the energy of the neighborhood, this diptych depicts the two blocks that flank East 5th Street in their past (purple) and future (yellow) states. In the imaginary future iteration, a gap is opened in the school building to restore the street’s function as a thru-space, while mid-block passages and additional fire escapes for spectatorship re-introduce forms of urban vitality that once defined this stoop-lined promenade.

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