XI N LU S U N Contact 3035 Whisperwood Dr. Ann Arbor, MI 48105
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Start Date 19-09-07
Education
Sanjiang University, Nanjing, China
• Design of Modern Folk Art Center in Nanjing Confucius Temple
06/2016
• Nanjing Interior Design Competition
12/2016
Activities & Events
Skills
University of Michigan
Project Experience
09/2018-present
Master of Architecture
09/2013-06/2018
Bachelor Degree in Architecture
• Volunteer of the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Participated in the process of passing the torch,
06/2014-08/2014
discussed with seniors and improved teamwork skills
• Head of the Self-Discipline Committee of School of Architecture
2016
Supervised the learning situation of junior students
• Teaching Assistant for Freshmen of School of Architecture
2015-2016
Supervised the architectural design foundation and campus life of freshmen.
Internship
Sinoma, China National Materials Group Corporation Ltd. • Position: Summer intern
07/2017-10/2017
• Department: Architecture team
• Project: 1. Bayah 10,000 TPD cement plant 2. Saman cement plant 5000 TPD clinker project
ADINJU, Nanjing University • Position: Summer intern
• Department: Architecture team
06/2019-08/2019
• Project: 1. Community Center, Jiangxin island 2. Orthopaedic hospital, Nanjing
MASS Design Group, Boston • Position: Externship
Work shadowing with an affordable housing project for senior citizens
03/2020
#City Wall | Geometric | Community Inclusive
02 Vocal Folk Museum
#bái jú Opera | Classical Garden | Landscape
03 Suture the Future
#Detroit | Live-Live | Affordable Housing | Single Parent Family
04 Reassemble 'Queensboro' #"Bath" | Therapy | Reunion | Incarceration Facility
05 Egalitarian & Equanimity
#Council Chamber | City Hall | Reunion
06 Other Works
#Sketches | Digital Representation | Internship | Experimental Project
CONTENTS
01 Taicheng Museum
[01] Taicheng Museum Instructor: Jiaxing Wang | Fall 2016 | Nanjing, Jiangsu | Individual work
MANIFESTO Museum is such a stunning space mostly is because it is the conjunction of time and geological locations. Next to Nanjing City Wall, this community has been suffered from disorganized tour buses and parking lots, as well as traffic mixed with motor vehicles and pedestrian. Basically, the intention of this project is trying to explore a decent way to balance exhibition space and community events while avoid breaking the urban texture of City Wall(Ming Dynasty). The altitude of our site is lower than context about 3-4 meters and is hugged by City Wall, so the site strategy is based on the orientation of City Wall tremendously. In order to deal with complicated crowd nearby, height difference here offers a possibility to let residents get rid of annoying traffic conditions and also be able to enjoy lovely community life. Furthermore, the museum is quite a casual one since I hope it’s more flexible and be able to host public lectures or social events.
Massing Iteration
limitation of site
minus and plus
divide the volume according to the form of city wall
cut the volume or attach with transparency
extrude and push
invite daylight
Master Plan
Perspective Rendering
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1. Storage Ha Ground Floor6.Plan 2. Viewing platform 7. VIP 3. Exhibition 8. Info 4. Lounge 9. Off 5. Cloakroom 10. V
Basement Floor Plan
Progam & Circulation Analysis
Lateral flow lines Lateral circulation
Vertical flow lines Vertical circulation
Exhibition space Exhibition space
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allway n P room ormation fice VR room
Rest space Lounge
Second Floor Plan
1. Storage 2. Viewing platform 3. Exhibition 4. Lounge 5. Restroom
Office space Office & Storage
6. Hallway 7. VIP room 8. Information table 9. Office 10. VR room
Open space Open space
Exhibition Ramp Renderings
[02] Folk Vocal Museum Instructor: Qian Wang | Winter 2017 | Nanjing, Jiangsu | Individual work More introduction about Baiju from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiju_(folk_art)
District
MANIFESTO Non-material cultural heritage are facing such a challenging moment because the medium of them are mostly people. Nanjing Traditional Baiju(a kind of
Old Captial
opera) is one of them. In order to help this informal opera, the project is focusing on keep the consistency of urban style and transparency of local texture. Additionally, building more public space as stage could invite more people from different backgrounds start to know this art through acoustic feelings and physical performance. China
Jiangsu Province
Historical Site
Nanking
Commercial
SITE
SITE
Pedestrian Spots
SITE
Historical site
Commercial
Pedestrian focus
Road Level
Traffic Station
Main Coverage Direction
SITE
Road level
SITE
Traffic station
SITE
Main converge direction
Perspective Rendering
Interior Rendering Bring traditional gardon landscape inside and keep the consistency old blocks.
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Alufer pendant Lateral keel
Granite plate
Steel bracket
Built-in fitting
Lateral keel
Granite plate Linear keel Insulation
Alufer pendant
Ground Floor Plan
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Alufer pendant
Built-in fitting Steel bracket
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Alufer pendant
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Linear keel Lateral keel
Granite plate
Window Detail
13. Restroom 14. Normal odeum
7. Conferenceroom 8. Staff lounge 9. Equipment room 10. Edit room 11. Sound studio 12. Dubbing room
Insula
Sealan
Second Floor Plan
1. Service table 2. Show 3. Baijustage 4. Make-up room 5. Exchange room 6. Property room
E - pen Latera
Granit Linear
Steel b
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Reinforced concrete Insulation Linear keel Steel bracket S - pendant Granite plate Lateral keel
Wall Plan Detail
Partial Section
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Wall Section Detail
[03] Suture the Future Instructor: Sharon Harr & Matīss Groskaufmanis | Detroit, MI | Fall 2019 Team work with Yining Yuan & Zhipeng Liu | 2019
MANIFESTO The strategy, suturing, is both programmatic and urbanistic. The future of Detroit relies on young people, children, and families. This project is built to create a novel and lively community, ‘suturing’ these different social groups. It is an application of a co-living model within an urban context, as a compliment to Detroit’s public housing system. This project focuses on providing not only comfort and affordable apartments for young individuals and single parent families, but also the diverse open resources for them, extending their life within the community to working, playing, gathering, studying, and parenting. Urbanistically, we firstly saw the opportunity of this project to activate and ‘suture’ the fragmented urban context. This drove us to design the site as a set of public amenities not only serving its own residents, but also attracting people living in the surrounding neighborhood.
NARRATIVE This project is composed of three different layers with different contents and levels of sharing. The first layer is public: a multifuncional culture and sports ‘bridge’ placed on the eastern edge of the site, facing a busy street and other city institutions. The massing of this bridge along with the residential bars form three open and accessible courtyards with programs corresponding the ‘bridge’. This layer not only serves the residents, but also attracts people from surrounding areas. The second layer is semi-public: these are programs and space that mainly serve the residents. For example, co-dining, a playground on the roof, and other shared facilities. By extracting some programs which were traditionally equipped within each unit and organizing them in the semi-public layer, small units have greater space for living, and shared spaces became more lively and safe due to the constant interaction of residents. The third layer is private layer: these are the individual residences of three different unit types. Across all three unit types, we applied the same rules of how to create co-living. We categorized different programs from the most private to most share-able. For different share-able programs, each resident will share with different individuals. For example, one person living in the 2B2B unit, may share the bath, kitchen and living with a roommate, and share a balcony with a neighbor next door. By structuring this project in three layers, we carefully intersected different ways of living together to create a system serving both residents and non-residents.
Massing Physical Model
Massing Iterations
East Elevation Rendering
Ground Floor Plan
1:550
Communal kitchen
Section Axons of 'bridge'
Library
Gym
Two Bedrooms Apartment 1/16"=1' 4'-11"(1500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
6'-7" (2000mm)
11'-6" (3500mm)
4'-11"(1500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
6'-7" (2000mm)
11'-6" (3500mm)
2B2B Type Plan 1:100
13'-1" (4000mm)
3'-11"(1200mm) 5'-7"(1700mm)
Studio Type Plan 1:100
13'-1" (4000mm)
12'-10" (3900mm) 3'-11"(1200mm)
8'-2"(2500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
4'-11"(1500mm)4'-11"(1500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
8'-2"(2500mm)
5'-5"(1650mm)
Studio Plan 1/16"=1' 5'-5"(1650mm)
5'-5"(1650mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
5'-5"(1650mm)
Studio 1/10"=1'
Two Bedrooms Ap
Unit Type | Plan & Axon
Duplex Loft (second floor) 1/16"=1' 11'-6" (3500mm)
6'-7" (2000mm)
6'-7" (2000mm)
11'-6" (5500mm)
4'-11"(1500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
6'-7" (2000mm)
11'-6" (3500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
Duplex Type 2nd Floor Plan 1:100
13'-1" (4000mm)
Duplex Type 1st Floor Plan 1:100
13'-1" (4000mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
3'-7"(1100mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
13'-1" (4000mm)
5'-5"(1650mm)
Duplex Loft (first floor) 1/16"=1' 5'-5"(1650mm)
5'-5"(1650mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
18'-1" (5500mm)
5'-5"(1650mm)
partment 1/10"=1'
Duplex Loft 1/10"=1'
Section Detail 1/5"=1'
Section Detail Physical Model
[04] Reassemble 'Queensboro' Instructor: Jeffrey Mansield & Michael Murphy(MASS Design Group) | Winter 2019 | Newyork, NY | Individual work
MANIFESTO Human-beings seem like the only creatures that build a sophisticated regulation for punishment and make containers for mass incarceration. Angela Y. Davis claims in the publication Are Prisons Obsolete? that, during the 1980s what is known as the Reagan era, politicians argued that “tough on crime” stances, including certain imprisonment and longer sentences would keep communities free of crime. But the truth is, larger numbers of the population were involved in the incarceration system instead of safer communities. Prison is founded as a system nowadays and as the U.S. prison system expanded, the use of prison labor becomes one of the factors that influence residents in the wall mentaly and physically. This project is focusing on the last chapter of each residents journey in prison, seeking a therapy to reunite and help them to recover from isolation and institutionalization. Then, based on upcoming space, help our users to be sociable.
NARRATIVE The Queensboro Correctional Facility houses 424 beds in a six-story brick building located in Long Island City, NY. Residents here are waiting release into parole and are typically released within 60 days of arriving at the facility. In this limited timeline, my strategy is to use a classical architectural model: Roman Bath as a motif to offer an open space for Baptism, socialization and education. With the support from current community, specifically LaGuardia Community College, is offering dynamic programs for residents here and the neighborhood should engage, interact more with the space that I want to shape. For the sake of this, a transition of opening degree is needed to form different scenarios with diverse sensory pattern.
Punishment
Isolation
Discipline
Institutionalization
Heal the community in the incarcerational system, tear down the visible and invisible boundary between residents and society, recovering their social skill.
Mission
Reshape
Baptism
Punishment, isolation and institutionalization make people lost self-awareness social identity and people skills. It may build a boundary between residents and other groups.
Method
“Bath” as an architectural gesture, is aiming at mental therapy and multiple activity. The definition of “Bath” has been extended, as well as its volumn. This multi-functional space can be a connection between residential sapce and educational sapce, visiting area, commercial activity(grocery). Columns, smokes can also be healing.
Impact
Offering religious space, mental therapy and Rebuild residents’ confidence and trust, let them accommodate better when they are released.
Healing
Reunion
Need statement Lack of trust, confidence, which lead to their inner fear to the outside world.
Behavior Change Meanwhile, decrease discrimination from other citizens. Due to these, residents can be well prepared to walk out that they won’t re-enter. As a result of this, the number of mass incarceration can be reduced.
Recover
Site Context
Massing Functions
LaGuardia High School Aviation High School LaGuardia College
Human Resources Queens Technical High School Secondary School for Arts and Technology
City Ice Pavilion
library educational program domestic facility
Photo Studio
Industry Training
Educational Facility
Site
Community Center
Residence
res
sidential area
Baptism
Healing
Healing
Approach Approach
Recover
Baptism Semi-doomSemi-doom
Reunion
Nature
Nature
“Bath”
“Bath”
Edu
Edu
Sunken plaza Reunion Sunken plaza
Recover
Outcome Outcome
Challanges Challanges What’s in theWhat’s “Bath”?in the “Bath”? How to keep How security? to keep security? What’s the possible What’s the narrative? possible Sequence? narrative? Sequence? Order? Order?
Entrances
"Bath"
mental therapy spiritual space
visiting relatives entry
educational program entry
office
office commercial space visiting area
religious entery/ epiphany exit
Basement One Plan Oblique
public plaza
prayer room
chapel entrance plaza first floor entrance
art studio
indoor pool
gallery
1/32"=1'
residents
commu
unity
visiting
public plaza
computer lab visiting entrance plaza waiting room
telephone
outdoor swimming pool living room
telephone corridor
living room
Second Floor Plan Oblique
1/32"=1' living room
staff housing dayroom for religious use
resident's housing classroom classroom classroom
above indoor pool computer lab
Education Program: Art Studio
Social Program: Semi-Private Living Room
[05] Egalitarian & Equanimity Instructor: Malcolm McCullough | Fall 2018 | Burlington, VT | Individual work
MANIFESTO Architecture is a server, an observer, a listener, but nothing to do with a pusher, it’s like a rock staying still in the rapid flooding river. Through the research of city hall and town halls in different countries and generations, I think the image of this building type is a showcase of the ideology. Such as Toronto City Hall and Boston City Hall, both were built during Cold War, have a feeling of centralization of authority and power. This studio starts from Egalitarian and Equanimity, aiming to figure out what is the best way to represent the clean-tech city like Burlington. Our site located on the same block of the current city hall and this project is an extension of old city hall. Therefore, as a city showcase, this new building should be confident and provide equality to both citizens and officers.
Main Street
College Street
Church Street
Burlington City Park
St Paul Street
Main Plan
Council Chamber
Work Space
A-A Section 1:24
Department Off Meeting Hallway
B-B Section 1:24
Administrative Meeting Administrative Offices Public Service Hallway
Council Chamber
Me
Public S
Fourth Floor
fices
eeting
Media
Third Floor
Service
Second Floor
First Floor
Ground Floor Double High Space Vertical Circulation
West Elevation 1:32
Work Space
Office to Cou
unci Chamber
Hall to office
Infinite Surface | 2019
Animation | Maya | 2018 Teamwork with Ruxin Xie https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=oEAkeuzIJ1A
Representation | 2019 Teamwork with Yining Yuan & Jiawei Yao
Nanjing Community Center | 2019 internship Teamwork with architecture group
Complex Design | 2016
Watchng Tower | 2017 Experimental Design
Devils & Detail | 2019 Ashtray inspired by Carlo Scarpa
Plaster Cast | 2019 Teamwork with Yining Yuan and Fazhe Ren
Dionysus Methodology | 2019 Review of Delirious New York | Instructed by John McMorrough
Intentional Montages of Thesis | 2020 A{AI}: Adulterated Testimony of Da Vinci
Observer and listener of culture and nature.
Xinlu Sun Taubman College, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Master of Architectue xinlusun@umich.edu | xinlus0918@gmail.com 734-882-8606