With over 10 + years of professional experience in a diversity of fields ranging from exhibition design, interiors, historic preservation, urban planning, strategy + re-development, architecture + design, Aaron is currently fulfilling the role of Project Architect and Job Captain, with experience ranging from initial project planning, schematic + conceptual design, through construction administration, and project delivery.

This personal website is just a sampling of my experiences, interests, and ideas. If you have a question, an idea, or a thought you’d like to share with me, feel free contact me.

Creating a new center for executive education at Harvard Business School

This multi-award winning LEED Gold building, named to honor a generous endowment from the Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and Family Foundation, this new executive education center replaced Kresge Hall, becoming the new “front door” to the Executive Education precinct on Harvard Business School’s Allston Bank Campus. The design signals the Chao, as well as Harvard’s continued commitment to executive education, and welcomes while orienting new participants and practitioners; providing space for instruction, gathering, entertaining and broadening networks. The centralizing focus of the building is the multi-story “Hub”, highlighted by a terraced multi-functional gathering stair which encourages groups and individuals to pause, reflect, and interact, and grow.

A naturally lit, technology-rich, new business center providing renewed vitality to a historic university campus

Required to be contextual to the historic UNH Campus, this new insertion into the campus landscape utilized a variety of traditional materials such as brick, wood, and slate to remain contextual while providing a contemporary space to house new functions for undergraduate, graduate and executive business students with technology-enabled breakout rooms and classrooms to accommodate a range of teaching methods, and a unique hospitality management program. A enter for learning and interdisciplinary activity, the building is home to several departments and gathers students from across the campus. Integral to its function, a two-story, light-filled atrium provides social and study spaces, with views of the beautifully landscaped courtyard.

Sited in the historic heart of the campus, this new addition complements its historic surroundings. The façade is clad in matching red brick on three sides, but offers a surprising contemporary south-facing courtyard with new pedestrian connections to the broader campus open to all, and defined by a permeable slate and glass curtain wall facade.

A new residential and dining center to reinforce important campus pathway and student retention

Sheehan Hall is a new residence hall and dining center which fulfilled dual roles in providing students with contemporary housing, while serving as in informal student center along a critical campus pathway and aimed to limit student drop out rates through social connectivity. This contemporary addition to the campus adds over 400 beds for students as well as an inclusive 625-seat dining facility open to the broader campus. Similarly, as a student life building, it provides added purpose as a mixed-use housing including dining, health services, and residential-life offices.

A progressive faith community creates its headquarters:
expressing its core values through architectural integrity

After several hundred years on Beacon Hill, the Unitarian Universalist Society’s relocation to a former industrial building in Boston’s emerging Innovation District in Fort Point, provided an opportunity to align the association’s workspace with its integral values and creative spirit. UUA embraced a collaborative open office layout for its employees, in a bid to promote values of transparency, equality, and accessibility. Designed for flexibility within the organization, and allowing for growth over time, the headquarters are also open to the public and even features a chapel. Opening its doors to the larger community, the headquarters sought sustainable solutions to reflect UUA’s vision of religious freedom, tolerance, social justice. Achieving LEED Platinum Certification, the headquarters help to educate UUA employees, and visitors in environmental and social sustainability. A range of flexible spaces, open floor plans, natural day-lighting, and welcoming and inspiring spaces house employees and visitors alike.

Forward thinking, the design promoted employee health and wellness, while allowing for experimentation with a range of working models; the shared commons featured dedicated “hotel-ing” space for part-time or remote workers when on site. Bases in universal design principles, the headquarters aligned with UUA’s integrity, and truth driven principles.