Architecture Portfolio ---KangPei Sun
Email: ksun000@citymail.cuny.edu
Phone: (646)881-0153
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture
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Instructor: Sasha Topolnytska
Spring 2024
Group Member: Tianyu Chen, Katerina Kwong
Ripple Village is an inclusive childcare center in the West Harlem community that provides a nurturing, educational, and supportive environment for children and their families, particularly low-income families, immigrants, and single parents. To provide more access to quality childcare, in total, Ripple Village can serve 196 children in the classrooms. Ripple Village also provides adult programs for parents who need a workspace, and community programs that allow parents to observe and engage with their children.
terracotta panels are used as a shading device for east-facing facades while provide privacy for interior spaces.
Instructor: Kaja Kuehl
Spring 2023
Group Member: Tianyu Chen and Katerina Kwong
The Nexus is a mixed-use building with five floors of manufacturing and commercial spaces and fourteen floors of residential spaces. While responding to rezoning that is happening in Crown Heights of Brooklyn, the Nexus aimed to promote carbon neutrality in response to the climate change crisis, by inviting green businesses and offering green jobs for local residents without higher education. By creating a connection between manufacturing and residential spaces, offering a exterior corridor, vertical connection, and communal spaces, the Nexus formed a micro-community for its residents and tenants with a sustainable lifestyle.
Instructor: Rong Zhao
Fall 2024
Group Member: Tianyu Chen
One Circuit will provide quality and affordable living spaces for intergenerational groups in the Hunts Point neighborhood, which are single-parent families, young adults, and elderlies. We aimed to create a supportive community by mixing different generational groups in arrangements of residential units and providing public programs on the first two floors to stimulate interactions between different groups.
After demographic research of the Hunts Point neighborhood and defined our groups, we analyzed how could intended user groups help each other and public programs that each user group is more likely to use.
The two levels underground were used as gym space or large gathering space for community events, and amenities for gym or recreational spaces. Other public programs were all on the ground floor.
Instructor: Julie Nelson
Spring 2022
Group Member: Jose M Saucedo and Farah Al Tabatabaee
The project CCNC (City College Neigbhorhood & Community Forum) focused on the concept of making the site in City College a community event space by bringing in both neighborhood residents and campus members to the community event space to offer more diversity and community life to each other. Due to the focus of this project and the elevation difference within the site, the site conditions are being used as an opportunity to raise up this community space to bring more attraction to both the passenger and campus members.
