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Portfolio | Xi Sun Internship Application Spring. 2021

In Workshop by Visiting Lecturer Michael Blier, Spring 19’

From Waste to Green

Tube City

Deep-rooted in Hummocks

Edge: Between Clearing and Wood

Uzima: Spaces of Nourishment & Healing

Harvard Core3 Studio | Fall 2020 Tutor: Prof. Daniel Choi

Urban Design Studio | Senior, Fall 2019 Tutor: Prof. Jennifer Birkland

Landform Studio | Junior, Spring 2019 Tutor: Prof. Brian Davis

Native American Landscape Studio | Sophomore, Spring 2018 Tutor: Prof. Kathryn Gleason

Independent Design Research | Summer 2019 Tutor: Prof. Stacey Langwick

Site A: Wheelabrator, Saugus Centers of trash-to-compost and fruits&vegetable production

Site B: William A. Berkowitz School Centers of both waste collection and fruits&vegetables distribution

Strategies for Site A In Wheelabrator, Saugus, I will take advantage of the landfills in the wetland. Currently, the landfills are acting as a barrier to natural water flow. Why not break down the embankment in the wetland, and make it as a “holder” for the bioreactor containers in orange and algae ponds next to them? Meanwhile, the gaps between embankment remnants will encourage better flow of water. The heat pipes embedded in the embankment will transmit the waste the heat to the greenhouses on the embankment and landfill.

The process is color coded: both the algae ponds and the bioreactor containers will change color as days go by. The size of the containers are set based on current trash amount, 1500T of daily food waste will need 8 containers. Theses containers will be harvested after 15 days, when trash-to-compost completed. Hopefully, The process is viewable on the turnpike.

Strategies for Site B The William A. Berfowitz School is located next to the Chelsea Creek, one of the most polluted water body in Boston. Therefore, in addition to being the center of fresh produce market and food waste deposition for communities nearby, the school should also be the distribution center for the compost that support the remediation of industrial sites along Chelsea Creek. In the proposal, the street will be temporarily closed during weekends for farmers’ market. I’m also imagining that after the industrial site is removed, it can be transformed to lawn and plaza. I want to use the crushed concrete from demolition to pave the plaza, as show in grey hatch. Fast growing softwoods such as pines will be planted to set up the framework, while lines of slow growing hardwoods will happen in between.

Along the coast, birch groves will intertwine with the restored wetland. The new vegetation system will protect the city from floods. Here is a view taken from the plaza to look through the railway platform. A low wall on the edge will protect schools from traffics. With the market, the benches, the tree shades and the carts hear and there carrying boxes of fruits and vegetables, the place will be bustling.

ACADEMIC Urban Design Studio Fall 2019

INSTRUCTOR Prof. Jennifer Birkeland

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SITE Bergen Arches, Jersey City, NJ

Tube City

During this Urban Design Studio, we were challenged to look at the potential of urbanism through the lens of landscape. Embedded in a complex urban context in the neighborhood of Jersey City, the site we worked on contained two distinctive parts: the Embankment and the Arches. Both as part of an abandoned railroad system, the Embankment was a segmented masonry and earth structure around 3 stories above the ground, while the Arches was a railroad trench around 5 stories below its urban context. Our goal was to transform this underutilized space into a public corridor that can benefit the existing community. Goal & Strategies The goal of my design is to reduce the burden on current storm drain system caused by intense rainstorm, meanwhile offer people an all-weather pathway. Judging from their location and soil drainage capacity, I decide that the Embankment and the Arches should develop in different ways. Located in the middle of a prosperous community, the Embankment should serve as a flood-resistant community center with outdoor and indoor recreational spaces. The Arches, with its sunken landscape, is good for holding water for the upland area. An all-weather path will connect both sites, enabling people to travel between work and home with enjoyable experience. Tubes, with its strong guidance quality, become a tool to manage both the flow of water and people. Site Analysis Terrain& Soil Drainage Capacity

Section of the Embankment

Flood Zone

Storm Drain System

Green Space

This drawing visualize my crazy idea of a “Tube City”. Tubes become container for both water and human activities. Though the intervention may be too bold to be carried out, it gives me a chance to rethink about the relationship between architecture, infrastructure and landscape.

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Site Plan of the Bergen Arches

Main Focus-The Arches About 50’ below its urban context, this sunken landscape is ignored by even people living next to it. To create more connections to surrounding communities and give people easy access to the Arches, I soften the southern edge of with cut and fill and created several ridges and valleys. The ridges will connect to the previous underutilized parking lots and form entries for communities. The valleys will function as bio-swales and treat runoff from those communities. Grey & Green Infrastructure System In this proposal, grey and green infrastructures work together to manage storm water. Underground, the old railway tunnels will be connected to the re-oriented storm drain system and become cisterns for runoff. Inside the cisterns, the gross firstflush will get a centralized treatment before getting into the irrigation system. Above ground, the landscape are terraced and planted with different species so as to absorb different pollutants from the water. Concept Formation Step 1: Locate underutilized parking lots

Step 2: Cut and fill to creat ridges and valleys

Step 3: Terrace the ground and plant according to soil humidity

Step 4: Lay out pathways and entries

Upgraded Parkings

Infrastructure Systems

Longitudinal Section of the Bergen Arches

Planting Zones

Grey & Green Infrastructure Layout

After Normal Rain Event Circulation&Entries

Water Storage After Intense Rainstorm

Planting Strategy

Shrub Buffer: Capture dust and other larger particles

Grass Mat: Infiltrate smaller particles

Deep Root Grove: Stablize pollutants

Section Perspective 1

Proposed Drainage Area

Tube Typology

Working Model

Storm Drain Pipe

Sand Filter

Observation Deck

Cistern

Collection Tube

All-weather Pathway

Rainfall Intensity in 100yr Rain Event= 3.0 inches/hour Proposed Drainage Area= 870,000 ft sq Peak Water Volume= 21,500,000 gal

Tubes for Recreation Activity

Irrigation Tubes for Water Management

Section Perpective 2

Views from Observation Deck and Pathway Tube

ACADEMIC Landform Studio Spring 2019

INSTRUCTOR Prof. Brian Davis

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SITE Ithaca, NY

Transect & Profile Drawings

Transect and profile drawings are techniques that allow us to combine structured, abstract analysis with more experiential and open explorations, and enable me to have a better understanding of the site. The profile above shows the complex water flow pattern inside the wetland. The transect below records my experience of coming cross streams while walking on the Blackdiamond Trail. Ice Rink / Pool

Deep-rooted in Hummock

Shaping the land is one of the main ways that contemporary landscape architects can improve drainage and circulation or program, improve soils, enhance views and create space. In Ithaca there is a special opportunity for landform because of the need to dredge the Ithaca Inlet, a flood control channel, of 700,000 cubic yards of material. Currently, the low-lying parkland next to the Inlet is poorly drained and experientially anonymous. By placing large-scale earthworks on this vast, banal land and complement the landform with planting, paths, and other elements of landscape architecture, we hope to improve the civic landscapes of the city’s west side. Design Concept Located at the foot of the mountain, the site I chose was a low quality wetland hidden behind a dense birch grove from people’s view. Though the area was visually unattractive at first glance, its subtly undulating terrain and vigorously growing multi-stem trees suggested an overlooked beauty resulted by the interaction of water, sediments and trees. The concept of my design was inspired by the dynamics of sedimentation happened around multi-stem trees in site. As the tree roots captured and stabilized the sediments flushed down by streams, the ground under tree canopy would be gradually elevated as a hummock. By imitating such dynamic, I could create landform sensitive to the ever-changing environment. The hummocks would redirect water flow, restore the wetland and make the beauty of nature evident to its viewers.

Linderman Creek

Baseball Field

Ithaca Inlet

Blackdiamond Trail Ithaca Children’s Garden

Trees and Undulating Terrain

between ecological and bodily health.

Material and Construction Compost

Change Over Time Dredge Material: Silty Clays & Clayey Silts

Working Models

Stream Sediments: Gravels & Stone Chips

Decompose 5 years

Mix well Mulch

Mixture Set up a base

Stratify with geotextile Type 1: Stony Hummock

Type 2: Shruby Hummock

Deep Section Unlike conventional design approach, in this studio we started our design by sectional drawings. The technique of deep section is really helpful in terms of visualizing the complex site dynamic underground. It allows me to imagine a soil profile where sedimentation happens all the time; it shows tree roots that extend deep and hold the soil tightly. In this drawing I try to improve water drainage by playing with the slopes. The “ripples” also become interesting spaces for all kinds of human activities.

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ACADEMIC Native American Landscape Studio Spring 2018

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SITE St. Regis Mohawk Reservation, NY

INSTRUCTOR Prof. Kathryn Gleason

Edge: Between Clearing and Wood

American landscape is not a new frontier, a tabula rasa for the hopes and dreams of all who flee here. Rather, it is an ancient landscape, with civilized cultures dating into distant prehistory. In denying the ancient past of the earliest inhabitants of the Americas, we deny the capacity of their long inhabitation here to shape how we work as designers of landscapes. What if we recognize and respect their rich contributions to our sense of place as we design? What would this look like in the design process? We begin to think about all the questions above while working on this ecohousing project with the Akwasasne community on the St. Regis Mohawk reservation in northern New York. Design Concept The concept of “Edge Effect” is appropriate in this scenario: Ecologically, edge effects occur at the boundary of different habitats and lead to greater biodiversity. Departure from this concept, the design pays attention to “edges” between human and wildness. The buffer between the cornfield and wetland is one example as shown in the section. “Edge” also exists between family and community. The home garden of every front yard is an edge between family and community, which not only offers fruits and vegetables but also a place for people to greet and talk to each other. The site contains a variety of ecosystem types that creates edges with biodiversity.

Sectional Collage Seconday Forest

Clear the wood for housing development, and leave the lower flood plain untouched.

Wetland

Meadow

Brush

Master Plan

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GENERAL CONTRACTOR SHALL NOTIFY ALL UTILITY OWNERS HAVING UNDERGROUND UTILITIES ON SITE PRIOR TO EXCAVATION. CONTRACTOR SHALL CONTACT UTILITY LOCATING COMPANY AND LOCATE ALL UTILITIES PRIOR TO ANY EXCAVATION. SEE CIVIL DRAWINGS FOR LAYOUT OF UNDERGROUND UTILITIES. SEE ELECTRICAL DRAWINGS FOR LAYOUT OF UNDERGROUND ELECTRICAL AND LIGHTING. INSTALL EXPANSION JOINTS EVERY 20' IN CONCRETE AND IN AREAS WHERE CONCRETE ABUTS CURBS AND OTHER FIXED OBJECTS. 4"-6" GRAVEL PAVING VERIFY DIMENSIONS AND ACCEPT CONDITIONS BEFORE PROCEEDING WORK. REPORT DISCREPANCIES TO 4"-6" GRAVELWITH PAVING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT BEFORE PROCEEDING. DO NOT SCALE FROM MEASURING DRAWINGS. WALKS, DRIVES, CURBS, PARKING & BUILDING LOCATIONS TO BE LAID OUT IN THE FIELD BY A LICENSED SURVEYOR. LAYOUT IS PARALLEL AND PERPENDICULAR TO BUILDING.

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ACADEMIC Independent Design Research Summer 2019

INSTRUCTOR Prof. Stacey Langwick (anthropologist)

INDIVIDUAL PROJECT SITE Moshi, Tanzania

Uzima: Spaces of Nourishment & Healing

This 2.2 acre hospital-based garden at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania is designated to support the reflection, healing, teaching and research about the links between ecological and bodily health. In Kiswahili, uzima means holistic health. The garden design will support faculty and students in their efforts to articulate “uzima” and acknowledge the complex notions of health engaged beyond the clinic. Design Concept We are not simply nourished by the soil, we are of the soil. The carbon, nitrogen and every mineral and vitamin that is a building block in our own bodies is derived from soil. Therefore, the soil remediation progress will not only initiate ecological restoration, but also inspire new understandings of the healing of human beings. The goal of my design is to improve soil quality of the site, and at the same time provide doctors and medical students an experimental ground where they can gain knowledge about plants, soils and environments needed to assess their contribution to health and healing. Challenges & Approach Termites turn out to be the biggest problem of the site, therefore become the starting point of the soil remediation progress. Termites deplete the soil by moving nutrients from the foraging area to their own mound. However, researches suggest that local people have learned to live with termites for a long time. Traditional agricultural practice such as intercropping and crop rotation can increase termite repellency. Learning from such termite-control methods, my design actively takes advantage of the termite mounds on site and offer practical methods to reduce termites’ negative effects.

Activity & User Survey Summary Sanctuary

Patients

Connection

Medical Students Family & Friends

Reflection

Doctors

Communities

Teenagers

The view of Mt. Kilimanjaro from site is instrumental to healing

The site currently uses soy bean as cover crop to fix nitrogen and remediate soil

=Termite inactive mound

=Termite active mound

Termite Control Strategies According to the studies on termite habit, the main foraging zone of termites is 10m-40m from the mound, where the soil suffers from nutrient depletion. However, the soil in the inner circle (within 10 meters from the mound) is free of foraging and stays nutrition-rich. The difference in soil condition results in completely different vegetation types. Therefore, my strategy is to create termite-repellent landscape in the outer circle, meanwhile set up symbiotic relationship between termite and plants in the inner circle. How to live along with termites?

Mound with closed ventilation system

Compost

Offer adequate alternative food sources

Inner Zone with shallow passages underlain by deep radial passages

Main Foraging Zone with network of radial and cross passages

Peripheral Zone with small passages after ending blindly

Plant Litters

Manure

How to deal with the mounds? Remove the mounds + Spread mound soil to enrich surrounding area

Use termite-repellent plants

Intercrop repellent and susceptible species Keep the mounds + Set up symbiotic relationships

Raize the termite resistance of the landscape Rotate between repellent and sesceptible species

1m 5m-10m 30m-40m

Build physical barrier with sand/concrete/ raised planters

50m