Zhiling Sun Portfolio / 2019-2020 USC MArch2 Selected Works

ZHILING SUN PORTFOLIO

Selected Works Master of Architecture 2019-2021 University of Southern California School of Architecture

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ZHILING SUN

Architecture / Photograph / Interior

EDUCATION SKILLS Software Rhino Revit Grasshopper Photoshop Lightroom Illustrator Premier InDesign Twinmotion Office C

08.2019-06.2021

University of Southern California (USC) Master of architecture

09.2013-07.2018

Shanghai University (SHU) Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Architecture

INTERNSHIP 07.2018-09.2018

Shanghai Delson Architecture Design Co., Ltd. Intern, responsible for related design works through using software like CAD

06.2017-07.2017

East China Architecture Design and Research Institute Assistant Designer, responsible for modeling and drafting

Language Mandarin English Other skills Photograph Lifeguard Physical model

CONTACT ME Phone 267 432 0540

PROJECT 01.2021-05.2021

March studio: Thesis: learn from precedent Instructor: Wes Jones

08.2020-12.2021

March studio: Topic studio - Irregular site Instructor: Rob Ley

01.2020-06.2020

March studio: CLT using Instructor: Victoria Coaloa

06.2019-12.2019

March studio: convert public parking to student housing Instructor: Christof Jantzen

09.2018

Malevich’s Supremacist Works and Architectural Design Team Member, responsible for research Held by SHU

05.2017

Advanced Individual Award & Excellent Program Award Team Leader, exploring problems of imageability of Baoshan Campus at SHU through research method of “City Image”.

Held by SHU

06.2016

Mapping for Jin Temple in Shanxi Team Leader, responsible for mapping works Held by SHU Fine Arts College

Email zhilings@usc.edu Website zling-sun.com LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/zhiling-sun-0128

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Contents

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P1 The R2

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P2 Park Apartment

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P3 Co-working Bridge

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P4 Translucent Wall

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P5 Coffee Table

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Final Thesis Renovation Project Integrated technologies project Atypical site project Home made furniture

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P1 The R2

Fall 2021 / Critic: Wes Jones / Residential / 910 Oakmont Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Intention & Principle Intention of the studio “The challenge for all of the students in this section will be to figure out how to use the past to move forward positively, how to innovate through mastery, rather than through chance.”

--Wes Jones

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Intention of this thesis This project aims to explore possibilities of section design in terms of privacy issues in glass houses and to test it in the precedent Rosen House.

After the Fansthworth House was been criticized for the privacy issues for 20 years, Craig Ellwood designed the Rosen House which indeed improved the privacy. However, the transparency, which is the inherent advantage of glass houses, was missing. The section development nowadays offers more possibilities to get both the transparency and privacy at the same time, and that is where this project comes from.

Expression principle This drawings are based on contrast. The black & white photos are the precedent and colorful renderings are updated version.

Work flow Precedent research: Project:

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Precedent Research Rosen House brief Introduction Rosen house was designed by Craig Ellwood, a LA based architect who was ‘professionally for fusing of the formalism of Mies van der Rohe with the informal style of California modernism’. The Rosen House is located at 910 Oakmont Drive, Los Angeles and was designed in 1961.

Rosen House privacy strategies analysis • Set two solid walls towards the street [1] • Set another two solid walls to keep bedroom private [2] • Use gray glass rather than totally transparent glass towards front door[3] • Use multiple privacy cores rather than only use one in the center which is Mies did in Fanthworth House[4]

Rosen House privacy strategies critic • The lost of primitive transparency of the Glass House [5] • Insufficient section thinking because of the limitation of structure [6]

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Section Upgrade Height difference typology and view analysis

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The R2 section perspective and trunck The R2 Section Perspective A1

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Plan Upgrade Rosen House plan analysis • Nine squares [1] • Five private cores [2] • The private area guided by five private cores [3] • Two circulations rings next to private area [4] • The surrounding circulation area [5] The Rosen House plan is a mixture of the Nine Squares and the Onion-like space. [6] The classical Nine squares guide the layout and the Onion plan classify the space by privacy.

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P2 Parking Apartment

Fall 2019 / Critic: Christof Jantzen / Apartement / 3701 Flower St, Los Angeles, CA

Intention & Principle Intention of the studio Parking is linked to pollution, traffic, housing affordabilty and sprawl. About 200 square miles, or 14% of LA. County’s land, is dedicated to parking - street parking and off-street parking (i.e., lots and garages for residential and non-residential buildings) - according to a 2015 study published in the Journal of the American Planning Association.

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The typical two-spot requirement adds between $52,000 and $70,000 to the cost of a new unit before any construction starts and that doesn’t include the cost of land, estimates UCLA planning professor Donald Shoup. Cities all over the world – and across the US – are lowering down the numbers for minimum parking requirements in certain areas. Parking makes housing more expensive and removing parking requirements would be one of the simplest ways to mitigate California’s housing crisis.

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This renovation project aims at changing the excessive existing parking structure in USC to an multifunction student housing building mainly containing:

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Site Research Existing condition The existing parking structure is a seven-stories, three-bays concrete building including: • The bay1 [1] and bay2 [2] contain spiral ramps • The bay3 [3] is a flat area • Four gates on each corner • The OIS office is in the first floor of this parking structure [4]

Existing issues • Insufficient light in bay2 [5] • Noise on first bay [6]

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Design strategies The main strategy is the 1/3 parking + 1/3 park + 1/3 apartment which means there are three different strategies for three different part.

• The bay1 spiral ramp will be transformed to a vertical park.

• The bay2 spiral ramp will be maintained parking lot to serve not only the nearby students and faculties but also the future residents.

• The bay3’s flat slabs will be removed in order to have more freedom for the size of the units • All beams and columns will be remained and the structure will be strengthened.

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Maintained parking lot New program: landscape park

Conceptual program diagram

Remove the existing slabs and attach the new housing units to the maintaining structure Zhiling Sun

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Park Design Design approach • Curve cutting to create the natural light like the sunlight pass through the leafs gap • Maintain two staircase and add three elevator for completing the walking flow

Section Perspective

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Units Design Design approach • Curve cutting to create the natural light like the sunlight pass through the leafs gap • Maintain two staircase and add three elevator for completing the walking flow

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Plan Design First floor plan

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P3 Co-working Bridge

Spring 2020 / Critic: Victoria Coaloa/ Co-working space / 1746,1749,1756 N Spring St, Los A

Intention & Principle Intention of the studio The studio is framed around the study of cross-laminated timber (CLT) as one of the most innovative building materials available in the market. CLT has received appraisal as a material that profoundly engages with ecology and sustainable practices. Timber offers “the benefit of carbon sequestration, which is the capture of carbon, usually in the form of CO2, from the atmosphere, and it’s long storage, in order to mitigate global warming” (Jones, 2019).

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This Integrated Technology studio will study and understand why the future of the architecture industry is projected to be linked to technologies such as CLT. The studio aims to provide an industry framework with a realistic project expectation, where each part of the building could be considered an opportunity for innovation and entrepreneurial discovery. Students are invited to think of themselves as entrepreneurs that are developing a building solution that will be demonstrated in their studio project.

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Angeles 90012 / Cooperate with Chentian Lu

Intention of this project This project aims to create a co-working building with the function of public transportation using CLT.

Work flow

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Site research & design process Site analysis

Location research Elysian Reservoir

LA RIVER Echo Park Lake

SITE Lincoln park

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Design process Massing process

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Section design & structure design Long Section Structure explanation

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Plan design & public spcae design Co-Working Space Isometric

Second floor plan

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Courtyard View

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CLT design & details

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P4 Translucent Wall

Fall 2020 / Critic: Rob Ley/ Affordable housing / E 123rd St and Compton Ave, Los Angeles

Intention & Principle Intention of the studio This studio will explore how tectonic strategies can be used to address contemporary social issues by creating living/work spaces in previously unusable/disregarded sites throughout Los Angeles.

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Architecture has traditionally approached the creation of space by first establishing a program and then following a design approach guided largely by functional considerations. This approach favors pragmatism first, with conceptual design considerations following next (if at all).

Our approach will reverse this approach, and will use tectonic creations as a lens for examining larger social and cultural consideration

Intention of this project

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Will a super narrow site be used for a high density housing? What if some buildings appears somewhere you never notice before?

This project aims to create a high density affordable housing in a super narrow site (12 feet wide, 900 feet long) located in Willbrook neighbor.

The challenge is how to design the circulation for the 12 feet wide but 900 feet long building (vertical circulation) and how to reduce its influence to neighbor as possible as it can be (porosity).

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Design Process Site analysis: two challenge • Translucent: between transparent and solid • Circulation: rely more on vertical circulation than horizontal circulation, how to use vertical circulation

From 2D circulation to 3D volume • Stack layers to get volume

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Concept - Porosity

Grasshopper: generate path

• Translucent=Porosity= Solid+Void

• Random start point and end point

• From porosity to circulation

• Project path to hexagon grid for generate walkable path • Get a 2d vertical walkable path

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Section design • Life side

• Work side

• More private: more solid

• Public, more transparent

• Aluminum foam, sky light , the envelope gradually shift outward when going down

• Glass facade, meeting room

• Solid and translucent

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• Void and transparent

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P5 Coffee table

Fall 2020 / Critic: Rob Ley/ Homemade furniture

Intention & Design Process

Intention of this project The wet wood lamination technique provide a simple process of home-made furniture during quarantine. This project used this technique to designed and made a coffee table that is easy to deliver.

Work flow sketch rhino physical model

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Joint design

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Making Process Component making process Wood venner cutting

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Foam mode cutting

Wood lamination

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Zhiling Sun Phone 267 432 0540 Email zhilings@usc.edu Website zling-sun.com LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/zhiling-sun-0128

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