Portfolio of An Sun

POSSIBILITIES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Portfolio of AN SUN

Selected works 2013-2018

Table of Contents 01 Transparency

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inside and outside/ floating/ experience

02 City's Strategic Interface

09-16

frontyard/ backyard/ community

03 Sensory Waves

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sea level/ city design/ interact

04 Garden Restruction

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structure / algorithm/ renew

05 Dynamic Respiration

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plants/ environment/ rhythm

06 From Episode to Adaptation

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dredge/ metabolism/ resettlement

07 Other Works structure/ modeling/ sketches

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01 TRANSPARENCY Fall 2017 | Individual Work

·Inside and outside

The texture of bulb field is too clear and monotonous, so I arrange the things which I believe would bring about transparency into alignment, forming some transparent nodes.

·Floating transparency ·Transparency as experience: blurring landmark This design aim at finding the possibilities of landscape architecture. On a limpid ocean of bulb field in Jiangsu Province, China, I try to blurring the scence by adding the elements of transparency, and list out some possibilities.

folded landmark

stone trace garden

amphitheater

folded terrace

observatory window

the wall garden

rugate pool

folding road

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TRANSPARENCY: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE Walls shuttle inside and outside between bulb fields, blurring the boundary of fields.

TRANSPARENCY: INSIDE AND OUTSIDE Variations

inside field

reserved bridge concrete wall reflecting pond

wall permeating sky

reserved bridge

focal wall

hollow wall bulb field

mutually inside reflecting pond pillar of hollow wall

bulb field

inside concrete

The winding wall shuttle through the field, sometimes airtight and sometimes permeable, forming the vague atmosphere in the site. Besides, the hollow canopy formed by the concrete wall allows sky reflect in the pond in the middle of the spot, creating a sence of marvellous.

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FLOATING TRANSPARENCY A few strips meander on bulb fields aloft, forming a misty scence

FLOATING TRANSPARENCY Variations

hillside field

floating strip

hammock winding strip

floating pond reserved bridge

sideway activity implement

floating strip

sport field floating boundary screwy strip

recreational space

bulb field meadering path

sitting bulge

mutually floating

Some streamline-shaped yard are scattered on the filed, blurring the original simplex of the site. The strips and roads, in accordance with the yard, smoothly pass through the site. Fluctuant hights of the strips seems like floating on the bulb filed. And the screwy strip which joint two floating strips also add more dimmish beauty to the field.

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TRANSPARENCY AS EXPERIENCE

TRANSPARENCY AS EXPERIENCE Variations

translucent frame functional buidling

bulb field

landmark inside field

bulb field

submarine landmark

translucent frame

recreational pond submarine landmark

deep pond

inaccessible landmark

reserved bridge

deep pond

remote landmark

differentiating from hackneyed distinct landmark, this landmark is translucent. The submarine part of the building, together with the reflection of the landmark's framework, add more misty fascination to the field. The landmark is accessible both on land and under water, providing people with the experience on transparency.

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02 CITY'S STRATEGIC INTERFACE Community as a house: Frontyard and Backyard

OFFICE BUIDINGS REGION

Fall 2016 | Individual Work

limited resting and recreational space

New tenements' emerging in old residence has brought many problems in city: fracture between street and community, occupied recreational space for residents and unevenly distributed space beteween old and new community. In this design, I propose a strategic interface to solve the problem in Heping Street, Beijing, China, in which the community is seen as an independent unit, like a house. The street along a community represent the frontyard of the house and the open space inside community is seen as the backyard.

HYBRID REGION OF OLD AND NEW RESIDENCE unequal distribution of resting and recreational space

OLD RESIDENCE REGION

self-made garden, vacant property and limited parking space

OPEN SPACE TOWARDS STREET open space isolated from community by fence

COMMERCIAL REGION limited recreational spce resulting from disordered parking

vacant property

gathering at sidewalk pedestrian footpath cycleway

road

open space

old residence

new residence

old residence barrier

fence

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Community's toolkit Break Boundaries

Remove

Current street typology

Unequal Distribution of Resources

Build Community

Vacant Property

SEPERATED BY BARRIER

Limited Open Space

OLD TENEMENT

Roof Garden

Sidewalk Design

NEW TENEMENT

Limited Recreational Space

The communities' problems alomst exist on the intersection among street, old community and new community. A toolkit is brought about to solve the problems.

Limited Social Space

old residence

SHOP Narrow Roadway

STREET

Set Recreational Node

External Space

Shed frame

BACK YARD Limited Parking Shared Bike

hybrid residence

Outdoor Seats

DISORDERLY PARKING

Underground Shuttle

FRONT YARD SHOP

Main concept commercial region

barbecue

Backyard

OFFICE

gathering

individual activity

house

group activity

new tenement old tenement office building commercial building

exercise rest planting

office region

Community fracture

chat

Insulating is happening all the time between each two communities in this region: old and new community, old and old community, new and new community. Consequently, many recreational space in commnity is wasted and many residents have no activity space.

rest recreation

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Frontyard

community

exercise

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Community’s frontyard Moduling furniture provides various sapce

possible combination

rest situation

gathering situation

recreational situation

The frontyard of community is designed to be a recreational and rest place for both street and community, which once merely served for pedestrian on sidewalk.

The design break the fracture between street and community, and the moduling furniture provides people with multiform of combination which allows them to rest, chat, garthering, carrying out activities.

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sidewalk ornamental grass planted tree bulge terrace

moduling furniture

reserved tree 14

Community’s backyard

Movable frame and community farmland plastic board light pillar weel

farmland

steeping stone movable frame

skateboard rampway

slideway

reserved shrub sittable wall

To satisfy residents daily activity which they could also complete in their backyard If they were in houses, the backyard of community contains some pieces of farmland and movable framework. By regrouping the frame, people can create space as they wish, and gather under the frame space to do exercise, meet each other or even exchange the vegetables they grow.

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skateboard rampway sittable wall

movable frame

farmland

Community as a whole, like a house, forms the backyard. Residents in this community can do the same thing what people can do in the backyard of their house: barbecue, resting, communicating, gardening and exchange their harvest. All these activities would happen under the shelter formed by movable frame.

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Traffic analysis

Building analysis

Shoreline analysis

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subway bus

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landmark historic building historic region

U.S. Bulkhead Line U.S. Pierhead Line Parks and Open Access

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Submerge analysis

Landuse analysis

Zoning design

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Lower Hudson Valley& Long Island Mid-Hudson Valley& Capital Sea level rise

Sea level rise

Sea level rise with rapid ice-melt scenario

Sea level rise with rapid ice-melt scenario

commercial residential industrial green space

Sea level in 30 years Sea level in 50 years

aquiferous region interaction region protected region

Region 1: aquiferous park for generating energy When sea leve rises or rainstrom occurs, open space in this region will be immersed and the park used by people for activity in daily condition will become an aquiferous park. And by draining the sea water back into the ocean after the rainstorm, the electricity will be generated for the use of industrial land in this region.

Region 2: reflective waves create perspective landscape

A parapet will reflect the coming waves and force it to collide head-on with the laterly coming waves and create distinctive formation of sea waves. In this region, people have the opportunity to interact with the sea.

03 SENSORY WAVES Spring 2016 | Individual Work

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Impetuous rising of sea level has become an impending threat to coastal cities. Manhattan, as the economic and cultural center of New York, was predicted to be one of the cities which would be badly influenced by it.

To help people aware of the oceanic power and protect the city to some extent, I draw dynamic landscape resulted from sea level rising to my design in order to help people interact with the sea.

aquiferous park

Region 3: planted accropodes

To protect the landmarks and historical buildings in this region, I adopt accropode as a means to weaken the energy of sea waves. And some plants could make the accropode more resistant.

interaction space

protecting accropode

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Region 1: aquiferous park for generating energy aquiferous park

common condition

aquiferous condition

draining conditoion

flooded street aquiferous wharf

roadway

footpath

inaccessible footpath

pass through footbridge

footbridge

revetment

flooded ground

flooding activity space

aquiferous bay

flooded lawn activity area

reservoir

paving space parapet tideland

accropode planted bank

There are many industrial land in this region, and also some wharfs located in it. It is designed to be an aquiferous region with many open space store up rainstorm and overflowing seawater during the strom flood. After the storm, the stored water is drained into the sea with floodgate opened. And this process would generate electricity for the use of the industrial land in this region.

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Region 2: reflective waves create perspective landscape

The utilization of waves brings about persecpetive landscape of waves to this region. The waves, which rush inland, is reflected by the parapet around the seashore, and ram the coming waves. As a result, a landscape of reflective sea waves is formed. And people could interact with sea on the paving space around the parapet and experience diverse formation of sea.

Direction of moving waves

Reflective action of waves

ACTIVITY paving space

WAVE PERCEPTIVE

parapet

WANDER LINE footpath

tideland

GREEN SPACE

plants

When streets are flooded, pedestrain could use footbridge to pass through the region. The park, used as an activity field by residents in daily life, is a reservoir at the moment.

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Region 3: planted accropodes wave energy

inland terrace

There are dozens of important buildings in this region, including historic building and landmark. Accropodes are used to weaken the sea wave energy and protect those buildings. The design planted some aquatic plants to increase the resistance of accropodes.

wave energy

accropode

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04 GARDEN RESTRUCTION

SITE ANALYSIS

Spring 2015 | Individual Work This design applies the technique of Chinese classical gardens, which is both variegated and poetic, to the site in The Loop, Chicago in order to make it more dynamic.

Due to the heavy economic function in this region, people who work here are always live with quick pace. The restruction of landsacpe could provides them with a place where they can slow down and obtain fancy experience.

Chicago's city center isn't a hopping place like a lot of other major American cities. People who work here are always under pressure of competition and have to maintain their worklife balance. And streets in this region are impermeable with plenty of skyscrapers along two sides.

Board of Trade

Site

Stock Exchange

The Loop

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UNIT DIAGRAM

COMBINATION GRADE

A

2

A

contrast

serpentine

guide

size width

obstruction swerve

shortcut destination

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1

C

D

E

F

3

1

1

2

1

3

3

3

3

3

3

2

2

B

1

2

1

3

3

E

2

2

2

2

F

3

2

2

2

C

D

clarity and obscurity shelter viewpoint

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arrangement

permeation

front and aft spatial order

hollow border

2

Tix diagram of spatial form are developed from six different spatial patterns of classical garden, which compose the whole lively connotation of Chinese garden. I combine each two units orderly and rank them according to the spatial quality of combination.

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COMPUTING PROCESS

create a grid

Three possible outcome

select one point

MORPHOLOGY

calculate close points

calculate combined score

add all socres

Optimum outcome

Original plan

In the computing process, I adopt grasshopper to help with the arithmetic. After ranking 6 diagrams' combination, I divide the whole site into 25 rectangle small sites and intend to arrange this 6 diagrams into 25 rectangles. Therefore, a grid with 25 points are created and through the arithmetic process, I can find out the closet points of every fixed points and add all scores together. In this way, I find out the optimum combination of the six units and turn it into original plan.

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To make the landscape flexible in shape, I reconstruct the body mass which come from Chines classical landscape, including pavilion, wall and path. And through this process, the landscape transform into a brand-new shape with old spirit in it. And this kind of restruction brings about vitality and variety to the garden.

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clarity and obscurity

serpentine

contrast

The garden is vague but flexible, the technique of Chinese classical garden is knead into the concrete.

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guide

permeation

arrangement

05 DYNAMIC RESPIRATION Plants metabolic feature study Spring 2017 | Individual Work China National Childrens' Center is located in Xizhimen, Xicheng District, which is the center of the Beijing city. And it has the superior location to make it a popular park.

Additionally, the environment in Beijing is problematic with many air pollutant pervading, especially towards childern. This design aim at investigating the vitality and dynamic change in plants and helping people to be aware of the trends of plants throughout a year. Meanwhile, these plants would provide people in cities a more salutary environment.

Capital International Airport

Many children-related architecture complex located near to the site and therefore plenty of children's activities take place around here.

Meanwhile, the site is the China National Children's center at present. It is designed to be a late-model activity space for children.

BeiJing

North Railway Station Inner Xizhimen Str

Huangchenggen Primary School

Forbidden City West Railway Station

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BOTANIC ENVIRONMENT pervasive hard ground lacking in seasonal variety monotonous in arrangement

Zhonghua Road Primary School

CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY SPACE simplex type of activity

250 200 150 100 50 0

Xinjiekou South St

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION IN A YEAR

Zhaodengyu Rd

Beijing Youth Palace

N.Fuchengmen Str

subway line ring road railway

SELECTED MONTH 250 Ping'anLi West Ave

200 150

children-related building office building residential building

Guanyuan Primary School

100 50 0

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O3

AQI

PM10

PM2.5

NO2

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Plant species selection

Tone of the season: seasonal change in plants' color

Texture of the blade: classifying visual experience Through careful observation, try to identify the spatial quality, transparency, and tone and of plants as they change with the season. The texture quality also tells alot. Classifying plants texture into three type: dot, string sheet to see how different plant species deliver various visual experience. Children would take a insight look into the life of the plants and how their appearance change thourgh the years.

individual plant takes on motley mantle through time, while they vary in tonality and quantum of colors. The foliage could appears to be warm or cold tonality. The combination of leaves, inflorescence and fruits determine the plants to be mottled or monochromatic color.

Resistance to pollution: leaf blade leathery or waxy

Density of the season: conceptualizing spatial qualitiy observing an ephemeral Common Paper Mulberry

plants are resilient to different chemical elements in pollutant, and their degree of resilience is up to their leaf blade's texture. These leathery or waxy leaves are especially resistant to the air pollution in Beijing city.

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06 FROM EPISODE TO ADAPTATION

Material flows

DESIGN FOR A LITTORAL LANDSCAPE

Fall 2018 | GSD Core Studio | Group Work President Roads, Boston Harbor's main shipping channel, facilitates material exchange that power the region's industrial metabolisms. The channel's bathymetric dimension produce and reinforce configurations of settlement and infrastructure in low lying boastal areas where a nimble response to sea level rise is most pressing.

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Regional metabolism flows

Land ownership strategies

The complex metabolic flows indicate frequent mateial exchange and potential future settlement. By analyzing energy and waste facilities, the servise range of new neighborhood could be defined.

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Resttlement proposal

Housing prototypes New housing prototypes deal with different density of residential properties. According to their previous ownership, buildings and lands are assigned with new function to redistribute population and reshape land use in coastal area.

By using dredge material from President Roads for benificial uses, new landform along inundated area could be tranformed into new landscape. A number of dredge storage sites and provisional utilites are built along the railroad to provide material and facilities during transitional phase.

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07 OTHER WORKS

Spring, 2016

Practice of Structure Finding a sound and innovative stucture which could be used both by landsacpe and building.

Fall, 2015

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Spring, 2016

Marker sketches Using marker sketches to expressing atmosphere.

Spring, 2017

Reform of Old Quadrangle

Marker sketches

Using sunlight to form a contrast between light and shadow.

Finding appropriate perspective of building.

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