Aaron Young Choi Work Samples 2012 - 2017
Aaron Young Choi Resume Southern California Institute of Architecture www.aaronyoungchoi.com aaronyoungchoi@gmail.com 714.308.0244
Academic Experience: continued 2016 SCI-Arc Graduate Teaching Assistant Advanced Structural Systems with Greg Otto 2015
SCI-Arc Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Visual Rhetorics with Constance Vale
Professional Experience Testa & Weiser Inc. Architectural Intern Venice, California
4 Months 2016
Graduate Education 2017 SCI-Arc Southern California Institute of Architecture Master of Architecture Candidate Publications & Exhibitions SCI-Arc Spring Show
exhibition of academic work for the end of year show
Notable Projects ZXT Housing & Mixed-Use
designing and planning prototypes for a multi-family residential and mixed-use building located in Shenzhen, China 4 Months 2015
ChiDesign Ideas Competition shortlisted for the Playful Tower
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Notable Projects Boston Children’s Hospital
exhibition of Playful Tower in the CAF Atrium Gallery
Undergraduate Education 2013 Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts Bachelor’s of Science in Architecture - Magna cum Laude Honors & Awards Dean’s List
presented to students with high academic standing
Design Excellence Award presented to top student in each studio
Sean Murphy Prize
travel scholarship awarded to top architecture student
Architizer A+ Awards
popular choice award for X-Square student design competition
ASLA Honor Award
honor award for student collaboration
Azure Magazine AZ Award finalist for A+ student work
Publications & Exhibitions X-Square Pavilion
installation of X-Scape pavilion at Arizona State University
S.H.A.D.E.
D.O.E. sponsored Solar Decathlon 2013
Azure Magazine July/August 2013 Issue
Landscape Architecture Magazine October 2013 Issue
Academic Experience 2017 SCI-Arc Undergraduate Studio Teaching Assistant Third-Year Spring Undergraduate Studio 2016
SCI-Arc Graduate Studio Teaching Assistant Second-Year Fall M.Arch 1 Core Studio
Shepley Bulfinch Architectural Intern Boston, Massachusetts
expansion and renovation of existing campus in collaboration with Mikyoung Kim Design 1 Year 2013
Shepley Bulfinch Architectural Designer Phoenix, Arizona Notable Projects Wabash College: Student Life Master Plan master planning of multiple student housing complexes and student union building within the existing campus
University of Oregon Student Housing in charge of bim-modeling and delivering cd sets for two parallel student housing complexes
Skills Modeling/Drafting Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, Digital Project, Maya, 3DS Max, SketchUp, Grasshopper Graphics/Rendering Maxwell, Vray, Adobe Creative Suite, Keyshot Fabrication Staubli Robotics, MakerWare, CNC Milling, 3D Printing, Lasercutting, Woodworking Animation Maya, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Audition General Office Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Analog Drafting, Drawing, Painting, Modelmaking
Table of Contents
Professional Work 01
UnCommon Student Housing University of Oregon Eugene, OR
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Lot 6 Retail Park Cotton Center Phoenix, AZ
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Boston Children’s Hospital Clinical Building Boston, MA
Academic Work 01
Play the Part Bibliothèque nationale de France SCI-Arc Third-Year Spring Vertical Studio
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X-Scape Design/Build Competition & Installation Arizona State University
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Pink Palace Design Development Seminar with Herwig Baumgartner & Scott Uriu
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Technical Drawings 2013 Solar Decathlon: S.H.A.D.E. Team ASUNM
UnCommon Student Housing
University of Oregon Eugene, OR
Located close to the University of Oregon, this 120-unit student housing complex provided a mix of much-needed student housing close to the campus. This urban infill development scales down from six stories to five as it mediates the transition of the West University neighborhood from an active medical and commercial area to the east and a long-standing residential community to the west. UnCommon’s distinctive facade draws inspiration from trees in a forest, using a mix of fiber cement, cedar, metal panels, and stucco across the exterior to create an organic sense of movement and shift that breaks up the fixed rhythm of windows and stories. Its mix of fully furnished, 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom units includes two integrated townhouses that open directly onto the street. Amenities include interior and exterior gardens, a fireplaced study lounge, and first floor fitness center. Entrances are defined by two prominent portals that offer shelter from the weather. Bus rapid transit stops just outside the complex, which also provides generous bicycle parking. The highly sustainable project is LEED Gold Certified and anticipates a 43% reduction in energy consumption. UnCommon is one of a series of high-end urban residential complexes that Shepley Bulfinch has designed for a leading developer of privately managed student housing. It is located blocks away from Eugene Public Library, which the firm completed in 2003. Position: Architectural Designer Completed: 2014
Completion Image (Photo Credit: Shepley Bulfinch)
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Lot 6 Retail Park Cotton Center Phoenix, AZ
Lot 6 Retail Park is designed to serve a major office park located in Phoenix, AZ. With it’s prime location abutting the intersection of the SR-143 highway and Broadway Ave., Lot 6 becomes a destination retail center for it’s local context as well as commuters. Position: Project Manager Completed: n/a
Completion Image
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Site Plan Rendering
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BUILDING I - 6120 SF - Grey Shell - Subdividable (3 units @ 2040 SF each) - Kitchen Ready - Bathroom Core Ready
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BUILDING II - 3712 SF (including outdoor dining area) - Grey Shell - Kitchen Ready - Bathroom Core Ready
Boston Children’s Hospital
Clinical Building Boston, MA
The new Clinical Building - the largest in the history of Boston Children’s Hospital - addresses critical capacity needs and creates a new cardiac center of excellence for the country’s top-ranked pediatric hospital. The building on the Longwood Medical Area campus, with an 11-story tower and four floors below grade, is the largest in the hospital’s history. The Clinical Building will address the hospital’s continuing growth in domestic and international patient volume and its delivery of high-level tertiary and quaternary care, adding facility space to improve patient flow and enable operational efficiencies for acute care, critical care, diagnostic, and other ancillary services on the core campus. This includes the replacement of multiple occupancy patient rooms with single patient rooms and the creation of a Heart Center of Excellence. The design incorporates a variety of interior and exterior green spaces for young patients, families, and hospital staff throughout the building. The hospital’s relationship with Shepley Bulfinch dates back more than a century to the completion of the Hunnewell Building in 1914. Shepley Bulfinch prepared a Master Plan for Boston Children’s Hospital in 2014, in partnership with FKP Architects. Position: Architectural Designer Completion: 2020
Aerial Rendering
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Play the Part
Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, France The site and program for the building intervention is the Bibliothèque nationale de France located in Paris. This proposal is a play off of the competition proposal by James Stirling himself. Objects from his proposal are utilized as starting points for formal analysis and transformation. Through optical analysis utilizing the robotics lab, the color strategy and slippage of information looks to create and abstract new figures from the original objects. Outlines of the objects are thickened and volumetricized, implying cartoonish figurations within the plan. These new figures are achieved vis-a-vis effects and misreadings produced by the precise rotation that the robotic arms can perform. The palette of white, black, and gold also influences these effects as they begin to flatten, reflect, and express shadow. The final massing strategy can be explained in 3 ways, objects in a container, objects on top of a container, and objects unified through the outline figures. This main strategy of the design is developed through the plans which becomes the focal point of the project. The black figures within the larger whole begin to create a cohesion between the different parts both formally and optically throughout the massing. This begins to suggest moments of both part and whole and also begins to eliminate hierarchy and centralization within the composition. These objects and outlines take on different thicknesses within the plan and become extremely graphic in their desire to become legible in contrast to the extreme illegibility of the exterior. Overall this project focuses on the syntax of multiple objects, and the particular formal relations that can be produced through a highly specific and rigorous workflow. Critic: Devyn Weiser & Peter Testa Completed: Spring 2017, SCI-Arc Model Image
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Robotics Lab Setup
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Robotic Image Capture
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Level One Plan
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Level Three Plan
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Axonometric Section
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Axonometric Section
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Elevation Rendering
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X-Scape
Design/Build Competition & Installation Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ X-Scape activates an otherwise dull area of the Arizona State University campus between the arts building, lecture hall, and the design building. The pocket park is built on top of a square brick area that was not to be altered or penetrated, and the challenge for the design team was to create a space that provides accessibility, daily usability, event and performance areas, and gathering areas. The space provides trees for shade under which people can sit and socialize, and it provides circulation access for people with disabilities. With a variety of seating typologies, X-Scape is a hybrid landscape that is multi-level and multi-purpose for the community to gather, study, relax, and perform.Fuchsia-colored cladding draws inspiration from the adjacent bougainvillea plant that climbs the south wall of the design building and each piece was hand stained to match this color. Our team worked together to create a visual composition that would be complementary to both. Students hand water the plants, giving them the opportunity to learn about plant care and maintenance. Critic: Will Bruder Completed: Fall 2013, Arizona State University Awards: 2013 Architizer A+ Award 2013 ASLA Honor Award Azure AZ Award of Merit
Photograph of Completion
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Pink Palace
Design Development Singapore This project investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. The seminar included a review of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, Environmental systems, Buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this project was to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the Environment. The approach is a disciplinary one, where we challenge representation and search for relevancy in an era where documentation of design and manufacturing are in flux and are increasingly based on three-dimensional live data. While BIM is an important development in this regard, this project’s aim is to re-think how we can envision and communicate design in innovative ways which exceed the design object itself. Critic: Herwig Baumgartner & Scott Uriu Completed: Spring 2015, SCI-Arc
Site Plan Rendering
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Structure
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Large Chunk Detail
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Wall Detail
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Glazing Detail
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PV Analysis
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PV Detail
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Technical Drawings
2013 Solar Decathlon: S.H.A.D.E. Home Phoenix, AZ
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