Zhiling Sun Portfolio / 2020-2022 Selected Works

University of Southern California (USC)

Master of Architecture

Shanghai University (SHU)

Giantech Construction Inc. (Arcadia, CA)

H.P. Wu Design & Associates Inc. (Arcadia, CA)

Architectural Designer,

•Work with the senior architects to develop the Huntington Plaza from DD to construction, which is a 5-story 139-unit mixed-use condominium with 10,200sqft-retail-space.

•Prepare detailed drawings for permit, bidding & construction purposes for both residential and commercial building.

•Maintain and archive project documents for 8 projects including mixedused condominiums design and construction, single family house renovation, retail space tenant improvement, commercial office building.

•Collaborate with design team, clients, consultants, contractors, fabricators, regulatory agencies, and other vendors to meet overall project objectives.

•Assistant construction work for general conformance with the drawings and specifications.

Jonathan Wang Design (Culver City, CA)

Intern Architectural Designer, •Prepare graphic presentations, 3D renderings, and construction drawings.

•Assistant construction work for general conformance with the drawings and specifications.

Shanghai Delson Architecture Design Co., Ltd. (Shanghai, China)

Intern,

Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Architecture 09.2021-present 09.2021-10.2021 07.2018-09.2018 06.2017-07.2017

•Responsible for related design works through using Auto CAD.

East China Architecture Design and Research Institute (Shanghai, China)

Assistant Designer,

•Responsible for modeling and drafting for civic exhibition hall by applying Rhino

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Contents

Resume

The Huntington Plaza 139-unit mixed-use condominium

201 E Live Oak Ave Two story office building

The R2 Master’s thesis

Co-working Bridge Integrated technologies project

Translucent Wall Atypical site project

02 04 16 20 32 42

Project Information

Scope of Work

Develop plans from DD to construction through using revit and excel

The Huntington Plaza Fall 2021 / 139-Unit Mixed-use Condominium

Schematic Design Phase

Plan

11' - 6"

9'3 1/2" 36'2" Unit

38' - 0" 15'7" 36'2" 5'4 3/4" 6'0 1/4" 6'2" 8' - 2 1/2" 38' - 0"

16' - 9 1/2" 9' - 3 1/2"

EQ 3'0"

9' - 5" 5' - 8 1/2" 2' - 10" 11' - 10"

1'7" 13'1 1/2" 12'2"

Construction Design Phase

Enlarged Stairs

Construction Design Phase

Construction Manage Team Members

Construction Assistance

2021.09 - 2021.11

Maintain and archive project documents including plans, change orders, quotations, sub-contractors’ information, etc.

2021.09 - 2021.10

Prepare the new RFP based on owner’s requirement and pull a permit from the city for the new RFP.

Assistant construction work for general conformance with the drawings and specifications.

Change orders management

2022.01

Manage the gas, water, electricity, telephone and Internet application and assistant utilities construction. Prepare bid packages for doors, lock sets, finishes.

Prepare and send out bid packages per owner specifications and modify the plans based on CEO and owner’s requirement

2022.03

Manage sidewalk modification and pull the permit from city of Arcadia.

2022.06

Assistant OTIS for elevator installation, manage pre-installation check list work. Assistant infiltration trench construction.

2022.07

Prepare specific construction drawings for carpenters to make the cabinet, reception, etc. Assistant solar panel construction.

Track all stages of construction. Assign subcontractors to projects, and Coordinate construction work with Civil, Electrical, and Plumbing.

Set up and attend meeting with owners, subcontractors, city and suppliers

Intention of the studio Intention & Principle

“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

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.

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

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: photoshop revit rhino vray photoshop lightroom illustrator

Proposed South Entrance View

Existing South Entrance View From: Google’s Life Photo Archives

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]

Rosen House Section A

Height difference typology and view analysis

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.

Intention of the studio Intention & Principle

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).

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.

P3 Co-working Bridge Spring 2020 / Critic: Victoria Coaloa/ Co-working space / 1746,1749,1756 N Spring St, Los

Intention of this project

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

Work flowDivision of tasks

C Z Drawn by Chentian Lu Drawn by Zhiling Sun sketch rhino

photoshop illustrator physical model twinmotion

Angeles 90012 / Cooperate with Chentian Lu

Animation made by Zhiling Sun Drawn by Chentian Lu C Z

Site research & design process

Location research

Section design & structure design

Long Section

Structure explanation

Section perspective

Plan design & public space design

Intention of the studio Intention & Principle

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.

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

P4 Translucent Wall Fall 2020 / Critic: Rob Ley/ Affordable housing / E 123rd St and Compton Ave, Los Angeles

Intention of this project

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 Willow brook 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).

Work flow

vray

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

Concept - PorosityGrasshopper: generate path

• Translucent=Porosity= Solid+Void

• From porosity to circulation

• Random start point and end point

• Project path to hexagon grid for generate walkable path

• Get a 2d vertical walkable path

• Living side

• More private: more solid

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

• Solid and translucent

• Work side

• Public, more transparent

• Glass facade, meeting room

• Void and transparent

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