POSSIBILITIES OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Portfolio of AN SUN
Selected works 2013-2018
Table of Contents 01 Transparency
01-08
inside and outside/ floating/ experience
02 City's Strategic Interface
09-16
frontyard/ backyard/ community
03 Sensory Waves
17-24
sea level/ city design/ interact
04 Garden Restruction
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structure / algorithm/ renew
05 Dynamic Respiration
33-38
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
Frontyard 12
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. N
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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. 21
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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
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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. 3
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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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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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