Portfolio 2002-2010

AARON LIM | ARCHITECTURE Design Portfolio 2005–2010

AARON LIM www.issuu.com/aaron_lim aaroncheckshismail[at]gmail[dot]com

Accordion Auction HouseThe Bartlett UCL, London. Fall 2005Unit 8, Profs. Mark Smout, Laura Allen, & Rhys Cannon

Instead of browsing through furniture and bidding on the spot, the Live-In Auction House allows one to stay overnight with furniture. During the day, it folds accordion-like shielding furniture from the sun and creates a dramatic atmosphere. Furniture hangs vertically on a mobile partition wall that slides back and forth from a viewing platform and is backlit by soft effervescent candlelight. S imilar to Sir John Soane’s house—the Inn at Lincoln Fields—one views the furniture of the auction house from multiple perspectives. The spiral staircase surrounds the furniture wall and allows visi-tors to view objects from above, below, and at eye-level. Once at the top, a visitor is able to choose a set of furniture they are interested in and spend the night amongst it in a small unfurnished apartment.

Syncopated Territories


Syncopated Territories


Whales were once the main source of income on the island of Madeira. When processed, they could be sold as valuable industrial, domestic, and commercial products such as scrimshaw, lamp oil, and ambergris for perfume. The design of this hotel mimics the processes in which a whale carcass is processed and used as a source of light, shelter, stargazing, and storytelling, and transforms it into a hybrid interactive landscape for tourists.

Mutable Landscapes

The Lonely Tourist’s Whale HotelThe Bartlett UCL, London Spring 2006Unit 8, Profs. Mark Smout, Laura Allen, & Rhys Cannon


Mutable Landscapes


School of JournalismThe Cooper Union, New York. Fall 20064th Yr. Design Studio, Profs. Diane Lewis, Georg Windeck, Peter Schubert, and Mersiha Veledar

New Orleans was founded on a fraudulent premise: its location at the mouth of the Mississippi River makes it an economic stronghold, yet it’s geography situated below sea-level and susceptible to fl ooding make it an uniquely inhospitable place. To rebuild New Orleans is to overcome the land-scape and the culture in which it has been appropriated. In response to a reading of Sir John Soane’s Bank of England after the Fire of London, the School of Journalism embeds disaster in its siting and design. It is sited at a place of contention: an historic dock for boats and Customs House on the old city fortifi cation. Instead of imposing a single sculptural form on the site, the school consists of fragments of buildings that are dispersed throughout the city and fl oat on, above, and below the datum of the levee exposing the ground plane’s mutable character.

Cities of Disaster


Cities of Disaster


East River EcologiesThe Cooper Union, New York. 2007–085th Year Thesis, Profs. Anthony Vidler, David Turnbull, Hayley Eber

The network of islands in the East River was once crucial in supporting the New York metropolitan region. Restoring the archipelago is key in developing strategies for future fl ood mitigation and adaptation for the greater New York metropolitan region. I propose to think of this archipelago as an “Ecological Spine”: a fl oating network that allows the islands to fl ood while at the same time restores the land as a wetlands area as it is given away to the rising tide. This provides fl ood protec-tion for neighboring urban areas as well as encourages biological development of the ecological region by fi ltering the river of pollutants from storm-water runoff or waste disposal. This network composes both fl oating and anchored structures: piers, barges, boats that serve as living units, promenades, and water connections that rise and fall with the tide.

Undergraduate Thesis


Laguardia International Airport

JFK International Airport

Newark Airport

NY-15 Nike Missile Battery

15-miles

1920s Coastal Defense System

David’s IslandNike Ajax Missile Command and Control

Hart Island

Potter’s Field

Silo and Bunker

1.25 miles

Undergraduate Thesis


“Our primary assertion for Brooklyn 2110 is that all necessities are provided inside its accessible physical borders. In this city, food, water, air, energy, waste, mobility, and shelter are radically restructured to support life in every form. The strategy includes the replacement of dilapidated structures with vertical agriculture and housing merged with infrastructure. The plan uses the former street grid as the foundation for new net-works. By reengineering the obsolete streets, we can install radically robust and ecologically active pathways. These operations are not just about a comprehensive model of tomorrow’s city, but an initial platform for discourse.”-TerreformONE

*All photos, drawings, and text courtesy TerreformONE, Brooklyn.

City of the Future: Urbaneering for TomorrowTerreform ONE, Brooklyn. Summer 2010Design Lead: Mitchel Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Nurhan Gokturk

Professional WorkProfessional Work


Professional Work


WRT | Solomon E.T.C.Designer, Aug.–Feb. 2010various projects

Professional Work

As a Designer at Wallace Roberts & Todd | Solomon E.T.C. in San Francisco, I rendered elevations of multi-family housing proposals using SketchUp and Adobe Photoshop. These renderings were incoporated into client presentations and grant proposals. Buildings were modeled from AutoCAD drawings brought into SketchUp and processed in Photoshop. In addition to elevation renderings, I also provided perspective backgrounds taken from SketchUp renderings for presentation sketches and watercolor renderings.


Milton Myer Recreation Center

Youth TennisAdvantage

Dago Mary’sRestaurant

Bldg. 101

KitchenIncubator

Greater NewLight Baptist Church

Providence Church

True Hope Church

Dry Cleaning &Laundry

Wells Fargo

US Bank

SFHDCHome Ownership Center

Library

Public Glass (off map)

Monte Carlo (off map)

Pet Camp

Double RockGrocery

Lee’s FoodMarket

Post Office

EvergreenFine Foods

Willie MaysBoys & Girls Club

Earl Mills Center

Heron’s Head Park

HilltopPark

AdamRogersPark

MyerRec.

Center

GilmanPlayground

BayviewPark

India Basin/Shoreline Park

Youngblood-Coleman Playground

YMCA

Lee Rec. Center

Opera House

Hunter’s PointRestaurant

Surfside Liquors

Fresh & NaturalCharlie’s Cafe

McDonald’s

El Azteca Taqueria

Roadhouse CoffeeWallgreen’s

pper Cresteli & Grill

Speakeasy Ales & Lagers

TorinoGrocery

Pathfinder MissionaryBaptist Church

Our Lady of Lourdes Church

Malcolm XAcademy

Whitney Young ChildDevelopment Center

Bret HarteElementary

SF Head Start

LEJ Living Classroom

City College

Bayview School/Davis Prep Academy

Carver Elementary

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1 mile.25 mile

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Public Meeting Space

Music Venue

Major Supermarket

Gym

Movie Theater

NON-EXISTING AMENITIES (within map limits)

Hunters Point ShipyardCommunity Facility

SITE USE MAP

Hunters PointShipyard

1 Mile Zone from Community Facility Site

CandlestickPark

Religious

Schools

Restaurants

Community

Services

54 Felton

19 Polk

T-Line

Essentials

EXISTING DESTINATIONS

TRANSPORTATION

Community Facility Site

New DevelopmentBoundary

Parks

1 Mile Walkable Zone (from Site)

Proposed Retail

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54 Felton

Building 813Possible location for Kitchen Incubator

0 0.5 1 1.50.25Miles

BVHP AREA B (Parcel Two)

HUNTER’S POINTSHIPYARD

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BVHPAREA B

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BVHPAREA B

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MISSION BAYSOUTH

SOMA

YERBABUENA

TRANSBAY

WESTERNADDITION

INDIA BASIN INDUSTRIAL PARK

CENTRAL BUSINESSDISTRICT

BVHP AREA C(India Basin Shoreline)

Proposed Development

HUNTERS VIEW HOPE VIAerial Photo & Census Tracts

CITY of SAN FRANCISCOArea of detail

BAYVIEW HUNTER’S POINT AREA A (formerly Hunter’s Point)

McLARENPARK

BERNAL HTS.PARK

BAYVIEWPARK

HERTZPLAYGROUND

Open Space

Central Business DistrictInterstate Highways

Redevelopment Area

Major Arterials

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*For Census Tract information, see following sheet

Tuesday, October 276-8pm

Bay View Opera House4705 Third StreetSan Francisco, CA 94124

For additional information, or to request translation services for the workshop, please contact Amabel Akwa-Asare (SFRA) by email at [email protected] or by phone at 415.749.2592

We need your help to guide the program and design of the future Community Facility on Galvez Street on Parcel A at the Hunters Point Shipyard.

What are the activities, services, businesses and spaces this build-ing could contain that would best serve you and the community? Bring your ideas to this workshop and be ready to engage in brainstorming and discussion with your neighbors.

This is the � rst in a series of three workshops.

Workshop #1 will generate ideas for the best, most appropri-ate, and � nancially feasible mix of uses to be housed in the future building.

Workshop #2 will discuss three design and programming alterna-tives.

Workshop #3 will � nalize selection of the preferred alternative.

We hope to see you there!

The Shipyard Legacy Fund Board and the HPS CAC invite you to,

HELP US DETERMINE WHAT SHOULD BE BUILT ON THE SHIPYARD COMMUNITY FACILITY PARCEL!

Go to www.sfgov.org/sfra for more information on the Shipyard Legacy Fund and the Community Facility Parcel planning. Click on “Projects & Survey Areas” and then on “Hunters Point Shipyard.”

Professional Work

While a Designer at WRT | SETC, I created graphics for client and community presentations as well as grant proposals. Using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and ArcGIS, I created site use and zoning maps for planning and programming as well as designed fl yers for community meetings. De-sign of the site use maps involved researching existing neighborhood programming and community services and coordinating that data with ArcGIS data and graphics.

WRT | Solomon E.T.C.Designer, Aug.–Feb. 2010various projects


Professional Work

Dufner Heighes, Inc.Design Intern, Oct. 2010–currentvarious projects

As a Design Intern at Dufner Heighes in New York, I provide detailed interior rendering services using SketchUp 3D modeling. Working with highly-detailed interiors, I model all aspects of the interior from doorknobs to the wood grain. The desired effect for the renderings is to achieve the quality of a drawing using less textured effects and more lines. Interiors are modeled in SketchUp and exported into Photoshop where colors, shadows, and lineweights are processed.


Professional Work

The Osborn DollhouseKathy Osborn, Illustrator, 2007–2008piano wire, brass, canvas, linen, foam, chip board, acetate, wood buttons12 x 36 x 12”

As a freelance modelmaker, I managed the design and fabrication of the Osborn Dollhouse con-ceived and produced by Kathy Osborn. My duties included providing construction drawings of plans, sections, elevations, details, and axonometrics as well as designing the assembly of the pieces. The Osborn Dollhouse is conceived as a kit-of-parts. It is built around a simplifi ed structural logic and separated into architectonic elements: the base, windows, ledge, roof, free-standing interior partitions, and the chimney. These elements are stacked one on top of the other and are assembled without the use of familiar dollhouse conventions such as plugs or key-in-hole connections. The model was designed to achieve both simplicity and ease of use.


“Our primary assertion for Brooklyn 2110 is that all necessities are provided inside its accessible physical borders. In this city, food, water, air, energy, waste, mobility, and shelter are radically restructured to support life in every form. The strategy includes the replacement of dilapidated structures with vertical agriculture and housing merged with infrastructure. The plan uses the former street grid as the foundation for new net-works. By reengineering the obsolete streets, we can install radically robust and ecologically active pathways. These operations are not just about a comprehensive model of tomorrow’s city, but an initial platform for discourse.”-TerreformONE

*All photos, drawings, and text courtesy TerreformONE, Brooklyn.

City of the Future: Urbaneering for TomorrowTerreform ONE, Brooklyn. Summer 2010Design Lead: Mitchel Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Nurhan Gokturk

Professional Work


Professional Work

As part of a team of modelmakers, six fi nished models were produced for a real estate developer.Working in a woodshop environment, these models were built entirely by hand without the aid of CAD Details include handcrafted mouldings, window frames, hand textured and pigmented textured paper facades. My role as a team member included constructing and designing the core out of plywood, fabricating basswood facades, mouldings, and window frames, applying pigment to textured paper to achieve the right amount of grain and variety without sacrifi cing visual scale legibility, and hand sanding acetate amongst other duties. As a result of this experience, I became comfortable working in a woodshop environment and am experienced using a table saw, table and circular sanders, planars, scroll saws, etc.

Bone/Levine ArchitectsModelmaker, 2003–2005various models

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Portfolio 2002-2010