Kun
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Selected works
EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cornell University 09. 2015 - 12. 2018 Master of Architecture (Professional)
Gensler | 06. 2017 - 08. 2017 | San Francisco, CA Architectural Intern
The Bartlett, University College London 09. 2008 - 06. 2012 Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Architecture
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SKILLS Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Grasshopper, Vray, Microstation, Sketchup, Cinema4D , 3D fabrication
LANGUAGE Mandarin, English
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John Puttick Associates | 06. 2016 - 08. 2016 | New Junior Architect Intern •
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Prepared schematic design drawing set, and planning ments for a Youth Center and Bus Terminal with a tea including CAD drawings, site analysis and diagrams. Constructed physical and digital prototypes, and rend an exhibition individually.
Make Architects | 10. 2012 - 05. 2015 | Beijing Junior Architect
2015-18 Tuition scholarship | Cornell AAP 2016 Mary Lyons Fellowship | Cornell AAP 2015-16 Director’s Award | Cornell AAP
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Cornell AAP Website Bartlett Student Summer Show 2009/10/12 Bartlett Catalog 2009/10/12
Collaborated with client and design director on a reta project. Helped with site research, precedents analysi diagramming and presentation package. Helped with masterplan options and visualization of k tech campus. Interviewed local people and professionals, created ana a group research project on retail. Provided concept design proposal for a shipyard reno
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Heavily involved from concept design stage to building architecture design, interior design and project mana Luxury Hotel Project in Chengdu, China. Developed SD and DD drawing sets. Reviewed shop dr and prototypes. Built schedules for material, sanitary light, joinery, furniture. Took the leading role in design development, construc inspections in the renovation of two heritage courtya Led coordination with consultants, suppliers, contract
WALD Architects | 05. 2011 - 09. 2011 | Beijing Architectural Intern
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OTHER EXPERIENCE
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Cornell University | 02. 2018 - 12. 2018 | Ithaca, NY Teaching Assistant
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Collaborated with senior architects on Helsinki South Harbor Competition, helped with 3D modelling, visualization and presentation boards.
Worked as a TA for Environmental System II and Building technology II. Helped professors to organize seminar sessions and workshops for more than 40 students. Graded homework, provided office hours and review sessions for student’s design projects.
Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory | 09. 2016 - 12. 2017 | Ithaca, NY Part-time Designer •
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Collaborated with the director of the lab to design a series of small-scale 3D printable urban structures. Evaluated and finalized designs by digital modelling and prototyping. Developed a design proposal for a cabin based on explorations of corbelled structures in concrete 3D printing and investigations of log slicing using 6-axis robot arm. Made presentation model and detail drawing sets.
Chengdu Temple House Make Architects | Hotel | Chengdu,China 2012 - 2015 | Team: John Puttick, Jessica Lee, Jana Rock, Kunkun Chen I was involved from the early stages of the design as a key member and fully participated in the development of the project and its realization on site. The contemporary hotel project included radical refurbishment of a series of traditional Chinese buildings. I took the challenges of conducting a very precise understanding of the existing buildings together with creativity in bringing contemporary elements to them. Througnout the process I made excellent contribution through my communication and technical skills.
Image by John Madden / Make Architects
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From left to right: wall and window detail, facade section, elevation drawing and photograph
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"Volcano"
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Hotel
Heritage entrance building
Left: Ground floor plan Top: Roof plan diagram Bottom: Photo of a suknen courtyard
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Screens Legibility of function and space Visual permeability Cultural element Top-left: typical guestroom Bottom-left: sketches shows design ideas Top-middle: Garden room Bottom-middle: a guestroom section
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Furniture Functional Comfort Texture
Top: Garden room Bottom-left: Screen with bathtub Bottom-right: material palette
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Existing building: exterior
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Proposed treatment of roof & frame Timber on under side of roofing striped back to normal color - exposed to below. Primary structure stripped back and repainted with traditional black finish.
Proposed treatment of floor & walls Strongly coloured stone floor bring livelyness to the interior. Pods insereted with existing frame as insulation and integrated storage, air shaft, lighting and sliding pocket doors.
Access to Hotel and lifts
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Reception
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Art gallery
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Top-left: reception area upper floor Bottom-left: Furniture specification Top-middle: Dim Sum Restaurant Bottom-middle: Drawer cabinet detail
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Top: Restaurant Bottom-left: Fireplace joinery
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Preston Bus Station & Youth Center John Puttick Associates Preston,UK | 2016 Team : John Puttick, Edwin Lau
A visually light pavilion is complementing the s trength and weight of the ex isting Brutalist concrete Bus Station. The building is split into three levels echoing the horizontal emphasis of the listed structure.
Physical model and Photography by Kun Bi
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The newly created public space will be a major amenity for Preston city centre. The design provides a large, flexible paved square that can be used to hold events. Trees, soft landscaping and benches give a human scale and provide places for people to rest and relax. the double-height main entrance of the Youth Zone offers views of the climbing wall and up to the Sports Hall. The majority of facilities have been located at ground level, including a fitness suite, a performing arts and dance studio, a music room, a boxing and martial arts gym and a variety of arts and workshop rooms. An external kick-pitch and viewing areas are provided at roof level. Placing the kick-pitch on top of the building maximises the available public space at ground level and creates an exciting venue, with impressive views across the Bus Station, the new public space and beyond. Central to the value of the Bus Station to Preston’s cityscape is its striking monumental presence when viewed across the western apron. Gently curving concrete parapets give a powerful horizontal image to the building.
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Top: South facade elevation drawing Bottom: Wall section overlaid on model photo
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Top: East facade elevation drawing Bottom: Wall section overlaid on model photo
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View of the Youth center and existing Bus Station from the public square
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Phase I
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Site circulation
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Possible Hotel location
Shopping Centre Redevelopment Gensler San Francisco | 2017 Team : Sean Gallivan, Lifu Yao, Douglas Harsevoort
This is a start of a long term redevelopment of existing shopping center and amenities. It includes phasing study, and massing study of new programs.
Sectional diagrams indicating potential new areas and building heights
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Existing condition
Option 1
Corner building re-designed
Option 2
New building added
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Tech Campus Gensler San Francisco | 2017 Team : Benedict Tranel, Yuji Nishioka To fully explore the value of the exising campus, we provided a new masterplan based on analsis of existing conditions, requirement of new office buildings, traffic connections.
dynamic form
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courtyard
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Floating Chapel of Figureheads Individual work at Bartlett | 2010 | London Tutor: Ana Monrabal-Cook & Luck Pearson
This project explores the potential of communicating history through an installation. Consider, the St. Katherine dock In London: centuries ago, it was a small yet busy port for cargo ships, far from being a tourist attraction as it is today. During that time, all ships were outfitted with figureheads represent spirits protecting sailors during long journeys across the world. How might one create a chapel to commemorate these spiritual guards that once existed here? How can one exemplify for the visitors the old experience of sailing at sea? By designing reflections and lights, this small building aims to do exactly that.
An extreme perspective drawing shows the interior
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Situated next to The Tower of London, and immediately next to the Tower Bridge, this dock area is occupied by waterside restaurants, shops and cafes. Nothing is revealing the historial features to crowded visitors. the program is to create a floating chapel as a museum to bring back the missing historacal context of the site.
St Katharine’s Dock accommodated about 1,000 vessels and 10,000 lighters everyday in 1841. Figureheads visited the dock area from all over the world as gardians for sailors.
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The arms of the building link the windows with the water. By playing with reflections, an infinite field of figureheads is created within the limited interior space.
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Test of reflection and shadow casted by the interior reflective layers.
Interior tesing model
Interior view render
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light to illuminate figurehead chancel
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Elementary School Individual work at Cornell | 2016 | NYC Tutor: Jason Long, Scott Abrahams, Yusef Ali Dennis It is a school promoting health eating and sports. To enhance the concept of healthy learning, the school contained a series of programs including soccer field, growing beds, basketball field etc... The soccer field at roof top mostly identify the layout of space and the form. At the east side, there is a five-floor high void for basketball field. The cellular classroom located at the west with growing bed terraces. The structure is constructed with Glulam and steel, with water collection system integrated to collect rain/snow water from the roof top field for irrigation.
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A senior pitch (half sized Soccer field) is on top of the roof, which is suitable for primary school students.
Roof plan +17.00m
Planters are located on the south side of each level.
Plan L3 +8.00m
Playground is on the north side to the classrooms.
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Render: Growing area
Render: Sport space
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Soccer field
Soccer Field Small classroom Small classroom Mid classroom Large classroom South public space
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Classrooms
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louvers are placed on both the top and bottom of the building to allow natural ventilation
Roof is covered with rainwater collection system
Planters are connected with rainwater system for irragation
The south walls of all classrooms are openable to connect interior with semi interior.
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Individual work at Bartlett | 2011 | Cuba Tutor: Julia Backhaus and Pedro Font Alba
"A great revolution can only be born from a great feeling of love." This quote is inscribed on a propaganda board near the site. Havana is the center of various revolutions in Cuba; it is a city marked with clear passion. As a testament to Cuban culture, the design of this building emphasize intimacy of couples by inserting and highlighting certain building components with the existing structure. A great revitalization of the abandoned courtyard will be born from a great feeling of love.
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a: Umbrellas with lights: As its name indicates, this device combines the function of an umbrella with lighting. The lights on top of changing cubicles are focused to illuminate the interior more effectively.
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c: "Accordion" (shower cubicles): The partition between adjacent shower rooms is on a sliding track that doubles as a tool with which neighboring patrons can play. The shower heads are easily adjustable.
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Bird Feeding Tower I n div idu al w o rk at Co rn e ll 2015 | Ithaca | Advisor: Caroline O 'Don n e ll an d S asa Ziv ko v ic The program of this project is to design a tower for keeping both bird and insects. Tunnels connect the aboveground world of bird together with the underground world of insects. Birds are fed by insects fly/ climb up through tunnels. Visitors are the observers of the mingle of these two worlds.
Drawing: the upper world and the lower world are merged by the tower
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Platforms arranged in various height to feed different birds
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Bird feeding platform Auditorium Office
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Tunnel entrance for insects
One operation is to cut into the ground to lift up the soil, where insects inhabited, to the upper levels to attract birds into the tower. A series of study models were made to explore design possibilities. Visitor would experience the two individual worlds and the mixture through their journey.
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steel angle window frame steel support 70mm steel angle window frame tempered glass 12mm tempered laminated glass 12mm facade post 110mm
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Cuba’s Housing Revolution I nd i v id u al w o r k a t C o rn e ll | 2 0 1 7 | H a v a n a , Cu b a | Adv is o r : T a o Du fo u r & Lio r G alili This project is about Urban farming & Relocation. It is an architecture approach to a self-sufficient urban farming community. It repairs the broken relationships. One relationship is between residents and plants. By appropriating local pigeon tower, and redesigning existing houses, we introduced new infrastructures, which allows plants and residents would co-inhabit the space, feeding each other. Another relationship is between residents and empty lands. By appropriating the unoccupied industrial zone, a new Funguito community will be constructed. Together with the urban farms, they formed a hybridization of urban/ rural conditions that benefit each other.
Drawing: View of the new community on the formmer industrial land.
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The Almendares basin is an important watershed for Havana. The river initially Served as a resource for agriculture, and later for industrial production. As a consequence of the economic recession, many riverside communities degraded to a semi-urbanized condition. Fanguito is one of them. Residents expand their territory to the exterior and wild plants are fighting back. They keep constructing extensions on/ above existing structures to accommodate new residents. At the same time, weeds and branches are fighting back by creeping into unoccupied gaps and surfaces. I believe residents and vegetation could have better relations. Part of the riverfront was industrial zones with concrete floor. Those factories have stopped running for years. Not only because of the economic decline, but also for the shift of transportation methods. As highway network was completed, industrial factories did not need to use the Almendares River to transports goods anymore. This shift made the recession along riverbank even worse.
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For the existing houses on the west side of the site, the design aim is to turn this landscape into an urban farm. The first step is to construct infrastructure towers in the existing urban fabric. Houses would connect with the nearest towers to get the resource and recycle waste. Then residents slowly turn their ground floor to traditional growing areas while living on upper levels or turn the entire house to vertical farms or a livestock house. The unoccupied industrial zone is appropriated in the construction of the new community. Abandoned factories transformed to algae farms to remove heavy metals from river water.
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In this stage, we designed how would the existing housing turn into urban farmings step by step. Because we did not have permission or resource to survey every house in this zone, we selected five examples as main types. Then we categorized all other houses according to the similarity with the samples. Pigeon tower was a local feature, people tried to built structures on top of small rooms to support pigeon houses (categorized as Tiny Mini). Quite a lot of towers were scattered in the community. We transformed a few of them into infrastructure towers. top: diagrams shows different stages of transformation by housing types right bottom: mapping of housing types
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left: inferstructure tower with greywater recycling system right-top: physical model of the proposed inferstructural tower right-bottom: local tower as a design inspiration
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We developed our proposal based on the "Shell" method, with an integration of historical typologies and advantage of the Grand Panel. Staircase towers work as infrastructure connection points. Pipes extend from them, run along exterior walls and spread into individual bathroom and kitchens modules. Together with bedroom modules, living room units, and other modules, they form housing units. A few units cluster together, forming an internal courtyard and small communities. Corridors and bridges link these series of communities together. Residents can build interior walls by themselves according to design plan or as they wish, as long as they following the frameworks. New units would be added incrementally as the population grows. The ground floor is elevated to address the problem of seasonal flooding. In periods of no flood the ground level functions as It functions as small gathering spaces/cafeteria/storage/car parking.
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3D Printing Concrete Corbel-Bacon Cabin, Circular Kiosk, Urban Greenery Furniture , Six section house Cornell Robotic Construction Laboratory Cornell | 2017 These objects were collaboration with a 3D concrete fabrication factory to investigate the design possibility in small scall habitable objects. I developed a few products from the conceptual stage to the completion of final documentations. All of these design task have a commen goal : By carefully refineing the design, make the limitation of concrete printing become the character of the final products.
Top from left to right: Circular Kiosk, Six section house, Corbel-Bacon Cabin Bottom: Urban Greenery Furniture
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R 80mm 20mm thick round shelf with metal finish x 5 each
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timber deck
hinge concrete base
steel panel hinge
Urban greenery furniture
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Circular Kiosk
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Corbel-Bacon Cabin
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Section through the chimney
Physical model
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Paradise Garden Il l u s t r a t i on o f lan dsc ape h ist o ry Team: Mark Lien | 2017 | Cornell A d v is o r : L e o n ard Mirin
This project synthesizes the four sacred elements and rivers from the Islamic religion into a Garden of Paradise. The garden is based on the Islamic Charbagh layout, a quadripartite plan with a central fountain and four extending watercourses, the central fountain symbolized the origin and sustainer of life and the watercourses represent the four paradise rivers. The four subgardens are based on the fundamental elements of earth, fire, water and air.
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The paradise garden is blessed with “ streams of unpolluted water, streams of milk of unchangeable taste, streams of delicious wine, and streams of crystal clear honey. They will have all kinds of fruits and forgiveness from their Lord.
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MoMa
Apartment
Residential interior design| Beijing 2018 | Team: Xiaomeng Su
We re-designed the interior of an apartment for a large family - Mom, Dad, two boys, three cats, a housekeeper and their grand parents. This project is under construction, it will complete by the end of 2019.
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Top: furniture plan and selection Bottom: Joinery plan and design
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Demolition plan
Floor layout plan
GA plan
Reflected ceiling plan
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Floor finishing plan with texture
Sanitary ware plan
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Individual work at Cornell 2015 | Advisor: George Hascup
The design concept is to treat plywood with 3/4 " thickness as a surface. Througu the carefully design operations of cuting and folding, a chair is made from one sheet of plywood.
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The Rolling Bridge Study with structure system Advisor: Mark R. Cruvellier Team : Lingzhe Lu | Cornell 2015 This project is aimed to study the rigid structure and the rolling system of the Rolling bridge, which is a perfect example of how structural system has integrated into architectural design. In some aspect, it is the strong feature and cleverness of structure that realize the design concept, which is to fold the bridge mutating rather than fracturing. Therefore, it is quite important for us to achieve the folding process in this model and the biggest challenge for us is to duplicate or replace the hydraulic system in a proper way. Hydraulic System was tranlated into a system drove by transparent wires. The scale of the model is 1:15.
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Narrative image competition 2015 | Team work with Lingzhe Lu This story illustrated a problem caused by urbanization in China. Because of the unbalanced development between cities and countrysides, almost all the younger generation have moved from under-deloped areas to the cities for jobs. Consequestly, their old parents were left in hometowns living a lonly life.
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