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RECORDING IS FOR RESISTING

Zhijian Sun Portfolio Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation Tel: +86 15189806399 Email: zs2471@columbia.edu

Portfolio of Zhijian Sun Studio Works in Columbia GSAPP

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

"Sky Island" in Sky Island Jaguars as Political Media

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Project: Borderland Biostructure 2021 Summer Studio Duration: 2 months Site: US-Mexico Border Tutor: Ersela Kripa and Stephen Muller Research Part:Wanqi Sun, Zhijian Sun Design Part: Individual Work

I aim to shift the discussion about borders away from the question of identity, or "who". Instead, I suggest, we should focus on asking about place, or "where". It uses watersheds as models to understand how place-based obligations become social and political duties.

——Ochoa Espejo, On Borders

During jaguars' migration, the original model here is that over-ranching will cause desertification and forest fire，jaguars lost their habitat and food，they will eat cattle， but ranchers will kill them for revenge. The new model is that since fire is caused by human behavior, so when BIA provide the land, the ranchers should provide funding for construction. And this construction is like a floating roof, taking human actors on the top, and recovering natural environment underneath. It not only protect cattle from jaguars, recover the habitat，but also make water recycling for firefighting, climate control, agriculture irrigation and livestock feeding, so ranchers could protect cattle and get extra profits，they will pay back to BIA. And different bio-governance and farmers researchers staff wildlife can also engage. So this is not from human perspective, to keep our modern life and make a zoo for jaguars, but on the contrary from jaguar perspective, to keep natural habitat and make a new space for human. This proposal get all of these actors rancher government jaguar animal researcher forest water and agriculture etc. involved in this system, and make the recycling of water, energy, ecology and governance. Jaguar is the starting point and political media of it.

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

Water Purification

Water Dam

Water Management

Hydro Electricity

Water Extraction

Artificial Reservior

Artificial Reservior

Irrigation System

Natural Reservior

Water Treatment

Firefighting System

Water Infrastructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

Jaguars' Migration as Super Political Media

——Borderland Biostructure

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Open Work: Scattered Archipelago Work: Work: Scattered Scattered Archipelago Archipelago Open Open Work:Open Scattered Archipelago

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Mending the Crack Between Here and There

Mending the Crack "Between Here and There"

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Project: Taking Up Space, Making Place 2021 Spring Studio Duration: 3 months Site: Bronx, New York Tutor: Nina Cooke John Research Part: Nelson, Chiun, Zhijian Design Part: Individual Work

Reflective nostalgia dwells in aching, longing and loss, imperfect process or remembrance.

——Svetlana Boym

The subway line is like a crack to divide the communities and public connection across the White Plain Road, then how to mend this crack means not only connecting the street from “here” to “there”, but also connecting the immigrants’ belongings and sense of identity “here” in the Bronx and “there” the roots in their hometown.

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There 120 Year of Developmentand Change of the Bronx From the story of expressway we can find that what people really need is government to stop investing and trying to provide services in neighborhoods. From the contrast between two important transportation line, we can find interesting similarity that they both cut the continuity between two sides of communities, but the division of expressway is much stronger because the subway is overpass bridge Although the division of subway is not strong, I think it still create barriers of visual connection and public activities, it is also the dividing line of redlining map in the site， also affect immigrants public life. When we see the building typologies across the subway, the continuity between the retails and shops, residential buildings, small villas and churches, the two sides almost keep the similar styles and types. So the subway is like a crack, affecting the building types and public space, including the square under it. My proposal direction will be studying how to mend this crack, to occupy the void under the subway and create public space to connect here and there.

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Mending the Crack Between Here and There

——Taking Up Space, Making Place

Other Works During MSAAD

Paper: Contemporary Reflection on Architectural Education and Theory Author: Zhijian Sun, Philip Ursprung Published on The Architect Journal, 2021 August 118-122

Paper: Architecture is Everything?

New Perspectives of Architecture and Architectural Criticism in the Time of Internet of Everything Author: Zhijian Sun, Xiaofeng Han Prize: Third Prize of Tsingrun Paper Competition Published on China Architectural Education 2021 Issue 24