National AIDS Memorial: Living Memorial 2005-7
This design was selected as a wining entry to an open international competition for a new feature at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Our project, called “Living Memorial,” proposed a landscape of charred wood and a blackened steel poles as a counterpoint and complement to the existing verdant setting. of the Grove. Plants at the edges of the charred terrain would grow over time, to signal that mourning involves both loss and healing. The project was developed over two years and presented in community forums in a process that has been highlighted in the documentary feature film, The Grove.
Location
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Status
Unbuilt
Design Team
Town/Kim Studio (Principals in charge: Janette Kim and Chloe Town).
Grants
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brownsfellow Grant Travel Fellowship
Recognition
Selected by International Jury: Toshiko Mori, Walter Hood, Mary Miss, Joseph RosaExhibition
UC Berkeley (2005), CCA (2005), SFMOMA pop-up (2005).
Published Reviews
The LeFevre Fellowship (2018), Emergent Memory (2006), Architectural Record (2005), Koeram Journal (2005), The Architect’s Newspaper (2005), The Associated Press (2005), The San Francisco Chronicle (2005).The Grove (2012).