PORTFOLIO
Yuxuan Sun
6 INTERSTELLAR Space City Speculative Design CONTENT Curriculum Vitae 1 DECOMPOSING TEMPORALITIES 2 ECOTOPIA Other Works Urban Design Project at B-PRO RC16 Bartlett Negotiating Waste in Urban Ecosystems, London Ecological Utopia Urban Design, Hong Kong 3 ICE CRACK Public Centre Planning and Design, Shangha 4 KIDS' GARDEN Kindergarten Architectural Design, Shanghai 5 INSIDE GREEN Residential Complex Planning and Design, Shanghai
Yuxuan Sun
yuxuansun9893@gmail.com
+44 7708429530
Date of Birth: 3 Aug 1998
SKILLS
AutoCAD
ArcGIS Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premiere Pro Sketch Up Rhinoceros Grasshopper Houdini Enscape Lumion SPSS
LANGUAGE
English
Mandarin Chinese
EDUCATION
09/2021-09/2022
MArch Urban Design
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, UK
09/2016-07/2021
BSc Urban Planning Tongji University, Shanghai, China
WORK EXPERIENCE
07/2021-09/2021
HYP-ARCH Architectural Design Consultant Co.,Ltd., Shanghai Intern-Architect
11/2020-01/2021
Eastern China Architectural Design & Research Institute, Shanghai Intern-Architect & Urban Designer
07/2020-09/2020
Urban Planning Bureau of Baotou, Inner Mongolia Intern-Assistant Urban Planning Administrator
10/2019-12/2019
Urban Climate Lab of Tongji University, Shanghai Intern-Urban Researcher
07/2019-09/2019
Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute, Shanghai Intern-Urban Planner
AWARDS
07/2021
11/2020
Outstanding Student of Tongji University in 2019-2020 Academic year
2021 Academic Award for Design, Nomination Academic Award for Theory, Nomination Academic Award for Technique of College Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University 11/2020
First Prize of Tongji Scholarship of Excellence in the 2019-2020 Academic Year 10/2020
Nomination Award of 2020 WUPENiCITY International Competition on Urban Sustainability Reports 01/2020
Outstanding Student of Tongji University in 2018-2019 Academic Year 12/2019
Third Prize of the 2019 National Rural Planning Competition for College Students Majoring in Urban and Rural Planning
12/2019
First Prize of Tongji Scholarship of Excellence in the 2018-2019 Academic Year 12/2018
09/2019 Second Prize of 2019 Urban Transport Innovation Practice Competition of National College Students Majoring in Urban and Rural Planning
Third Prize of Tongji Scholarship of Excellence in the 2017-2018 Academic Year
DECOMPOS[ING] TEMPORALITIES Post-Natural Urban Design Negotiating Waste in Urban Ecosystems Decomposing Temporalities Post-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett
Through mycelium’s
the
exercises
2022/Academic Project Decomposing
Temporalities is enquiry
on
underside
of
cities, where waste is concealed and confined to the periphery. The project
the extended mind theory through biological, indigenous and artificial intelligence, reorienting wastewater treatment in urban morphologies. In the face of climate change, extreme flooding threatens London’s wastewater
treatment
facilities.
bio-intelligence and indigenous cosmotechnics, the project constellates waste treatment not as a utility under threat, but an integral part of dynamic urban ecologies. RC16, B-PRO, BARTLETT, UCL Location: London, UK Group Members: Vinay Porandla Emily Fusilero Lesego Bantsheng Tutors: Filippo Nassetti Claudia Pasquero Emmanouil Zaroukas Decomposing TemporalitiesPost-Natural Urban Design B-Pro
Bartlett
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Mapping of London Flooding Projection within Urban Context
According to Climate Central, low-lying parts of London will be permanently submerged in water by 2100. 80% of London’s wastewater treatment plants will be permanently inundated, which means great risks for the urban system.
Decomposing Temporalities Post-Natural
Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett
4 Decomposing TemporalitiesPost-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett (C, 5) MOGDEN (G, 8) HOGSMIL (G, 8) DEEPHAMS (G, 6) BCKTON STATION (G, 6) BECKTON STATION (I, 6) RIVERSIDE STATION (I, 5) CROSS NESS (G, 8) DEEPHAMS Sewage Tunnel Sewage Treatment Work Industrial Area Green Space Permanent Flooding Flash Flooding Green Space Network Bad Quality Water Medium Quality Water KEY
5 Geo-engineering Models Decomposing Temporalities Post-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity Water Decentralization Water Infiltration Habitat Biodiversity
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Final Geo-engineering Model by CycleGAN
Inspired
by
the
attribute of mycelium to transfer wastewater into useful materials, here comes the proposal of Decomposing Temporalities, which is conceived to ecologically treat and transform wastes and formulate a thriving urban-ecosystems, integrating both urban infrastructures and morphologies. A series of 8 radical geoengineering models calculated by CycleGAN algorithm display increasingly permeated urban patterns and progressive capacities to treat wastewater.
Decomposing TemporalitiesPost-Natural
Urban Design
B-Pro
Bartlett
7 Prototype and Aggregation Design 3 Prototypes 10 Prototypes 20 Prototypes 100mm 100mm 100mm 70mm 70mm 70mm Prototype 1 Prototype 2 Prototype 3 100 Prototypes 150 Prototypes 200 Prototypes 40 Prototypes 50 Prototypes 75 Prototypes A: 1 B: 1 C: 1 A: 16 B: 21 C: 63 A: 6 B: 9 C: 25 A: 3 B: 1 C: 6 A: 22 B: 34 C: 94 A: 9 B: 11 C: 30 A: 4 B: 4 C: 12 A: 37 B: 49 C: 114 A: 13 B: 17 C: 45 Decomposing Temporalities Post-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett
8 Urban Morphology by CycleGAN and Prototypes Aggregation for Focus Area Mycofiltrations are employed to filter wastewater within the ponds. Beyond this, with well designed prototypes, it’s believed that myceliums are potential to be oriented into architectural materials and form structures that are sustainable, flexible and easy to modify. Decomposing TemporalitiesPost-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett
9 Mycelium Growth Study and Prototype Craft Mycelium Pattern Observation Mycelium Prototype Cultivation Phase A: Sawdust Prototype Innoculated with Mycelium Phase B: Radial Mycelium Growth from Defined Thresholds Phase C: Mycelium Colonisation of Substrate Phase D: Substrate Full Capacity Occupation The experience of myceliums growth illustrates its eminent capacity of adaption, flexibility and extension, which is brilliantly inspiring. Thereby, urban morphogy derives from a couple of defined thresholds, blooming for several stages, forming more complex urban layouts, and assembling into architectures and even furnitures eventually. Decomposing Temporalities Post-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett
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Post-Natural
Urban
Design
B-Pro
Bartlett
Aquamarket Rendering Specifically, aquamarkets are distinctly devised to include human and nonhuman. With myceliums being incorporated to urban fabric, architectural design and daily life, we rethink the urban-ecology aesthetically, and reach a new degree of freedom of introducing living organisms into our built environment. Decomposing Temporalities Post-Natural Urban Design B-Pro Bartlett
Decomposing TemporalitiesPost-Natural Urban
Design
B-Pro
Bartlett
ECOTOPIA Ecological Utopia Urban Design An Utopia Integrated Urban with Nature Ecotopia Ecological Utopia
2020/Academic Project
Individual Location: Hong Kong
With extreme population and density, conflicts between human and nature has become dramatic in Hong Kong. Here comes a proposal of ecological utopia, aiming to fill the gap between human and nature,
in which manifold modules are employed to assemble into a village layout that encourages users to explore by means of parametric techniques. Thereby, functions, architectures, landscapes and activities are symbiotic.
Further, urban agriculture is distinctly devised here to challenge traditional binary of urban and rural. Also, energy utilization and substance circulation are incorporated and connected with natural circumstance.
EcotopiaEcological Utopia
15 Location Analysis Ecotopia Ecological Utopia
Ecological
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Humans used to live in harmony with nature
City and population conflict with nature Social problems also arise
Ecotopia
Utopia
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Water Treatment Pasture Farmer's Home Farmer's Home Dining Area Kitchen Fishtank Solar Panel Water Cycle System Facade Planting Planting Racks Artificial Lights Solar Panels Generator Biomass Power Plant Solar Panels Water Treatment Fish Tank Water toward the Ocean Nutrient Enriched Water for Plants Food Storage and Delivery Agriculture Wastes Function System Analysis EcotopiaEcological Utopia
19 01 Divide the site into a grid of 8M*8M units 02 Form streets, introduce squares, and arrange public activity places 03 Layout clusters with parametric aggregation technique Street Square Living Cluster Farming Cluster Coast Cluster8.0M Ecotopia Ecological Utopia
20 04 Assemble unit modules, including planting, living, activities, energy... 05 Facilitate assembling morphologies according to sunlight and wind 06 Devise energy exchange and material circulation system Southeast Monsoon Water Cycle with OceanUnits EcotopiaEcological Utopia
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ICE CRACK Public Centre Planning and Design Inherit Ancient Culture and Indigenous Intelligence Ice Crack Public Centre
2019/Academic Project Classical gardens of Yangtze River in ancient China pursue the harmonious coexistence of human, nature and culture. Illuminated by that, the design aims to conceive a varying spatial narrative sequence
with the spirits of ancient Chinese arts and gardens to facilitate modern life in terms of public centre.
Specifically, the ice crack pattern from classical gardens are introduced to form
urban layouts, in which architectures and landscapes are placed in between with the solid and void logic, with which architectural typologies are distinctly explored to create changeable spatial experience.
Individual Location: Shanghai, China Tutor: Jian Zhou Jianli Xiao
Ice CrackPublic Centre
Background
Design Concept
In ancient China, artists tended to depict their spirits and perceptions, technically employing contrasts of void and solid in the painting works to creat the atmosphere; similarly, architects were committed to achieve varying spatial experience by fluctuating spaces. Here, ice crack pattern from Chinese classical garden are adopted to generate architectural patterns, with which changable and intriguing spaces are arranged to form a spacial narrative.
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and Location
Ice Crack Public Centre
Architectural Typology
Architecture and landscape typologies vary with shapes, materials and permeabilites, stimulating the solid and voil relations achieved by Early Spring by Xi Guo, 1072, a terrific Chinese traditional painting work. Thereafter, these basic typologies assemble into complex architectures or courtyards, to fill in ice crack layout.
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Ice CrackPublic Centre
Ground Floor Plan N 2.50 5 15M A QU WYANG ROAD YU TIAN ROAD AUnderground Parking Main Ped Enrance Main Ped Enrance Shopping Mall Shopping Mall 1F 6F 30F 6F 6F 6F 6F Restaurants Gym Gallery Pavilion Pavilion Pavilion LibrarySupermarket Theatre Central Pavilion ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 -0.450 -0.450 -0.450 -0.450 Ice Crack Public Centre
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±0.000 5.450 10.350 Ice Crack Public Centre
A-A Section Ice CrackPublic Centre
KIDS' GARDEN
Kindergarten Architectural Design
Both a Kindergarten and a Kids' Garden Kid's Garden Kindergarten
2018/Academic Project
Individual Location: Shanghai, China Tutor: Xiahong Hua
Kindergarten should be a great place for kids to learn, to live, to play, to feel life, and to grow up. The design aims to devise a kindergarten just as a garden, full of lives, beauty and love.
At the level of overall shape, the kindergarten adopts centripetal layout, with all units arranged around the circular atrium. For each unit, the wall and roof has a continuous
folded form, bringing pleasant gray spaces.
Also, the colors are distinctly devised. The shape of blooming colorful petals speaks to the garden concept.
Kid's GardenKindergarten
Overall Layout Design Process
Classify
Class
Layout
Arrange class units by 22.5
from
Add rounded classrooms, courtyards and roof terraces to the northeast side
1st
2nd
3rd
On the whole,
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spaces into Public, Class Unit, and Assistance
spaces, in which Class units are towards the south to get decent sunlights
degrees of lines emanating
the hall
Fold: Form a pitched roof with a fold
Fold: Form a wall consistent with the roof
Fold: Apply folded skin to the facade
folding shape creates gray space to protect
Unit Shape Design Process
Axon View
Kid's Garden Kindergarten
34 Ground Floor Plan N 1.50 3 9M Public Outdoor Activity Place A A BB Facilites Area Sandpit Pool Runway ClassUnitOutdoorActivityAreaClassUnitOutdoorActivityArea Class Unit Outdoor Activity Area Activity RoomActivity Room Activity Room Quarantine Room Medical Room Central Hall Classroom Classroom Classroom Laundry Room Kitchen Food Processing Room Food Storeroom Office Reception Activity Room Activity Room Activity Room ClassUnitOutdoorActivityArea ClassUnitOutdoorActivityArea ClassUnit Outdoor ActivityArea Lane±0.000 ±0.000 ±0.000 -0.450 -0.450 UP UP UP UP UP UP UP UP DN DN DN DN Kid's GardenKindergarten
35 1st Floor Plan West Elevation South Elevation N 1.50 3 9M Roof Platform Above the Courtyard Above the Courtyard Above the CourtyardAbove the Courtyard Above the Central Hall Loop Corridor Multi-Function Hall Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom BedroomBedroom Bedroom DN DN DN DN DN DNDN DN Kid's Garden Kindergarten
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INSIDE GREEN Residential Complex Planning and Design Live With Green, Wind, Water, and Sunlight Inside Green Residential Complex
2019/Academic Project
Individual Location: Shanghai, China
Tutor: Wei Zhao
It’s imperative to devise ecological residential complex considering the nowadays drastic urbanization.
To actualize the ideal of living with nature inside the urban plot, the design covers all the scales
from area, cluster, courtyard to architecture, and unifys human, nature and culture.
Specifically, a green “valley” is introduced which consists of water, vegetation and pedestrians.
And the valley extends and grows into the inside of each cluster along with comfortable wind environment. Eventually, the green even extends into each courtyard and each housing.
Inside GreenResidential Complex
Current
Design Strategies
MEMORY:
WIND:
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Satellite Map
Situation Analysis
Transform the fabric of previous gasbag buildings WATER: Introduce water into the area and form a network
Arrange roads to speak to summer dominant wind direction HOUSING: Employ green building strategies COURTYARD: Devise various shapes and compound functions CLUSTER: Layout squares and streets into public spaces system
Design Analysis Green Valley Concentrated Green Waterside Green Cluster Green Courtyard Green Main Motor Road Pedestrian Green Path Skywalk Motor Parking Cluster Valley Green Axes Motor Axes 3F 4F 5F 6F 7F 18F Cluster Facility Kindergarten Courtyard Facility Landscape System Transport System Facility Positions Building Heights Axon View Spacial Layout Inside Green Residential Complex
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Music Valley
Kindergarten Market Sports
Valley
Resting Valley
Skateboard
Square
Agriculture Valley
Riverside Garden
Riverside Square
Gallery
STATION
SOUTH ROAD
SHUI
DIAN
ROAD
Riverside Park SHA JING PORT
Motor Vehicles Entrance Motor Vehicles Entrance Inside GreenResidential Complex
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42 Cluster Wind Environment Analysis(Winter/Summer)Overall Sunlight Environment Analysis 0-1h 1-2h 2-3h 3-4h 4-5h 5-6h 6-7h 7-8h
Ecological Housing Ecological Housing Ecological Housing
Ecological Housing
Ecological Courtyard Ecological Courtyard Ecological Courtyard
Inside GreenResidential Complex
INTERSTELLAR Space City Speculative Design To Infinity and Beyond Interstellar Space City
2020/Academic Project
Individual Location: Planet Kepler-22b
InterstellarSpace City
Unfortunately, the earth is doomed to perish one day, for which humans might have to prepare themselves well.
Imagine there will be a migration scheme, humans will travel to the unknown to find a new home.
In such case, a light, compact and flexible structure is required for building a camp in a strange planet. Thus, the design is inspired by origami, which is easy to fold, unfold and modify, providing a flexible, rapid and efficient way
to construct.
The origami structure unfolding process is well explored with parametric techniques, and thereafter applied to generate domes with different sizes and functions, and finally combine into clusters.
Interstellar Space City
Origami
Parametric Design Process
In order to promptly accustom to the unknown planet, the design adopts folding origami structure, which is light, compact, flexible, and easy to transport, assemble, and modify. Origami will ideally fold into domes of different sizes and functions and subsequently form complex clusters.
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Facade
InterstellarSpace City
Ground Floor Plan Section Space Exploration Cultivation Interstellar Space City
Public Activity Recreation Dwelling InterstellarSpace City
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51 HIGH TECH PARK PLANNING AND DESIGN Zhangjiang High Tech Park Planning and Design Reimagine Modern Techpark By Injecting Vitalities Site Plan N 250 50 150M Tube Exit Square Catholic Church SOHO Accomodation Technology Innovation and Bussiness Centre Design Industrial Park Design Industrial Park Commercial Centre Commercial Centre Public Centre SHEN JIANG ROAD SUMMER ROAD JI CHUANG ROAD JI DIAN ROAD ZHANG EAST ROAD WINTER ROAD SPRING ROAD ZU CHONG ZHI ROAD HIGH TECH MIDDLE ROAD CHUANG XIN RIVER AUTUMN ROAD CATHOLIC CHURCH Business Negotiation Technology Exhibition Sports Resting Recreation Study Medicine Ecological Experience Accomodation Entertainment Shopping TUBE STATION Other Works
2021/Academic Project
Individual
Location: Shanghai, China
Tutor: Yong Shao
Jury: Xiaoming Kuang
The Circuit Port techpark locates in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, one of the greatest high tech centres around the world. However, traditional techparks underline productivity way more than human needs, which
makes them lack of attraction and vitality.
Here comes the attempt to transform the tech park into a tech neighbourhood, favoring both producing efficiency and human requirements.
Specifically, two outstanding diagonal axes are arranged into current context, with diverse functions and services, free architectural forms and public spaces, unfolding the vitality, attract and meet interest demands of various parties.
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Axon View Ecological Recreation Production Exhibition Life Service Fuction Planning Traffic Planning Spacial Layout Riverside Innovation and Service Complex Production and Innovation Complex Central Bussiness Complex SOHO TOD Commercial Complex Accomodation Express WayTrunk Road Sub-Trunk Road Branch Road Pedestrian Ecological Axes Active Axes Active Node Design and Innovation Complex Other Works
HISTORICAL BLOCK
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REGENERATION DESIGN The Bund in Shanghai Urban Regeneration Design Revitalize the Historic District Through "Fold" Spaces Site Plan N 200 40 100M River Hotel Culture & Innovation Centre Garden of the Bund Cultural Square Gallery of the Bund River Cafe River Gallery Shopping Centre Shopping Centre Lilong Public Centre China Shanghai Huangpu Shanghai North Bund Huangpu Park Bund Origin Peninsula Hotel Banque De I'indochine Yitai Building Guanglu Building Huade Building Hengfeng Building Mailin Building Yanyi Building Zhongyi Building Zhexing Building National Commercial Bank Limited Shamei Building Jialing Building Youth Association Building Xiejin Building Royal Asiatic Society Anpei Bank Lanxin Building Yihe Bank Yokohama Specie Bank Bank of China Peace Hotel Chapel Riverside Park Waibaidu Bridge HUANG PU RIVER EAST ZHONGSHAN ONE ROAD MIDDLE HENAN ROAD MIDDLE SICHUAN ROAD MIDDLE JIANGXI ROAD HUQIU ROAD YUANMINGYUAN ROAD EAST NANJING ROAD EAST BEJING ROAD NINGBO ROAD TIANJIN ROAD SOUTH SUZHOU ROAD HONG KONG ROAD SUZHOU RIVER New Constrcuted Building Protective Historical Building FOLD1 Street and Square FOLD2 Courtyard FOLD3 Lilong Public Places FOLD4 Riverside Places FOLD1: Vibrant Street Aerial platform LilongFOLD2: Peaceful Courtyard FOLD3: Pleasant Neighbourhood FOLD1: Vibrant Square Branch FOLD4: Adorable Shore Elevation Other Works
2020/Academic Project
Individual Location: Shanghai, China
Tutor: Ming Tong Jianli Xiao Jury: Li Hou
The bund of Shanghai acts as the most brilliant landmark with profound historical accumulation. However, the popularity now over concentrates on East Nanjing Road and huangpu Riverside, the blocks have been
ignored and losing life.
To revitalize the great historical blocks, the design employs the concepts of “fold”, inserting different types of “fold” spaces to conduct the vitality into the blocks.
The colorful “folds” intertwine each other and permeate the vitality, connecting human, historical atmosphere and natural environment, actualizing the renaissance of the precious blocks.
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Axon View
Architecture Strategy
Traffic
PlanningSpacial Layout
Protect buildings Keep buildings Regenerate streets Regenerate Lilong Demolish for spaces Demolish for new buildings Current vibrant axes Added vibrant axes Riverside axes Branches Vibrant nodes Urban road Block road Pedestrian Bus stop FOLD1: Vibrant Square FOLD2: Peaceful Courtyard
FOLD3: Pleasant Neighbourhood
FOLD4: Adorable Shore
Other Works
AIRPORT DISTRICT PLANNING AND DESIGN
Changshui Airport T2 District Planning and Design Transport Hub, Urban Gateway and Vitality Centre Site Plan N 1000 200 600M Other Works
2021/Intern Project
ECADI
Eastern China Architectural Design & Research Institute, Shanghai
Location: Kunming, China
With: Tian Li Yilun Yang
Kunming has developed into a terrific city in China with great tourism resources and economic status.
Changshui Airport of Kunming has been devised a second terminal, and thereby the design of the
district around the new terminal is proposed.
The aim here is to create more than a transport hub, but also a urban gateway with pleasant landscape environment and a vitality centre with
diverse functions and activities.
Thus, the urban design layout adopts a vibrant axes with commercial under and a continuous roof platform on top, connecting terminal to the suburban park.
Other Works
