I am a detail oriented, creative Landscape Architect with functional knowledge of reviewing,

modifying and creating drawings for landscaping projects.

I always encourage myself and others to try the very best when it comes to facing challenges,

I believe I have the strength and confidence to fit into any environment, learn from others and improve myself.

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

PORTFO

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YIREN SUN402/399 Bourke Street

Melbourne 3000 VIC0402378525

yiren_5@msn.com

UPSTREAMproject type: collaborative urban

revitalization

CONTENTS

ECO - CITYproject type: regional and

community planning

UPs and DOWNsproject type: public space design

IN THE SHADOWSproject type: public space design

HAND GRAPHICS

Leadership skills

Preparing plans and details for landscaping activities based on self

judgment

Basic knowledge of sustainability and integrated landscaping design

Excellence in written and oral communication

Software used:photoshop

IndesignIllustrator

Outstanding hand drawing skills

Basic knowledge of sustainability and integrated landscaping deisgn

Software used:AUTOCADPhotoshopSketchupIllustrator

Excellent aesthetic sense

Outstanding hand drawing skills

Basic knowledge of sustainability and integrated landscaping deisgn

Software used:AUTOCADPhotoshopSketchupIllustratorIndesign

Excellent aesthetic sense

Outstanding hand drawing skills

Modern design ideas

Excellence in oral communication

Software used:AUTOCADPhotoshopSketchupIllustratorIndesign

Canvas painting in acrylics and oils

Pencil drawing

Watercolor

Pastel painting

Quick sketches

project type: COLLABORATIVE URBAN REVITALIZATION lecture/tutor: ANDREW FEENEYlocation: MOONEE PONDS CREEK, MELBOURNE collaboration: JIAYU HU, GAGANI WARMAKULASOORIYAstudio: UPSTREAM tools: ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, ILLUSTRATOR* Group responsibilities included group leader, all poster design, site analysis, computer graphics, data collection, and speech writing.

UPSTREAM

UPSTREAM is a project which was based on community analysis, public communication a n d g r o u p c o m m u n i c a t i o n , p u b l i c collaboration and participation.

We had to ask ourselves some questions:

How do we define "improvement"?

INSTITUTIONAL REFORM / LOCALISM

What is our role as a landscape architect?

OUR ROLE IS TO COACH LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO RAISE THEIR VOICES THUS TO FIND POWER

WITHIN THEMSELVES.

What design approch should we use?

DESIGN INTERVENTIONS AND ACTIVATIONS

- to disrupt the normal pattern

- create a simulation of a natural disaster

- make the public to think forthemselves, to discover the problem and feeling

responsible to make a change.

(left) A poster made before on-site activation, to raise the public awareness of the current condition of Moonee Ponds Creek and its surroundings. (right) Group logo

UPSTREAM

DestructionDiscomfort

Curiosity

Understanding

Visualize people’s voices

Influence others

Individual participation

Visualization of public participation

(left) A poster made for on-site activation.Balloons are the representation of people’s voices and concerns, colour act as a ‘language’ that the public ‘speak’ to communicate and interact with others.

(above) the DOMINO EFFECT

Alongside with all essential design skills, I am also very clear and determined about what I am and what I should offer as a landscape architrect.

I want to become the link and media between the decision makers and the public.I have gained confidence and abilities to communicate with group

members and lead a great team.

UPSTREAM This project required my team to communicate on a daily basis, this project was not an ordinary design project, we did not produce drawings nor plans, it was a thinking process.

But I have learnt as many knowledge as other design subjects, if not more.

We were connected to the people behind design, the soft and most important element in any design process.

UNDERSTANDINGCURIOSITYDISRUPTIONDISCOMFORT

INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION VISUALIZE PEOPLE’S VOICES INFLUENCE OTHERS VISUALIZATION OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND

INTERACTION

ECO - CITYproject type: REGIONAL AND COMMUNITY PLANNING lecture/tutor: JANE SHEPHERDlocation: TARNEIT, VICTORIA collaboration: INDIVIDUAL PROJECTstudio: FRINGE tools: AUTOCAD, SKETCHUP, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, ILLUSTRATOR, PEN AND INKECO-CITY

TARNEIT, VICTORA

DESIGNER: YIREN SUNS3261752

1:7500

UNITS

STUDIO UNIT (84m²) SINGLE UNIT (158m²) FAMILY UNIT (198m²) FAMILY UNIT 2 / STORE (264m²)

> DIFFERENT TYPES OF UNITS FOR DIFFERENT FAMILIES> PEOPLE ARE SURROUNDED BY BEAUTIFUL TREESCAPES> UNITS FACING OPPSITE DIRECTIONS TO GET DIFFERNET VIEW AND FEELING SAFE AT THE SAME TIME.> NICE WALKWAY CONNECTING UNIT TO UNIT TO ENCOURAGE RESIDENTS TO APPRECIATE THE LANDSCAPE AND LIVE HEALTHY.

ECO-CITY PROVIDES PEOPLE A NEW LIFESTYLE, ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO COMMUNICATE AND CONNECT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT ALSO OFFERS SAFETY AND ENCLOSURE.

IT PROVIDES FACILITIES AND FUN, SO THE RESIDENTS CAN SAVE THEIR TIME AND MONEY, AND PUT THEM TOWARDS SOMETHING NEW.

Tarneit is one of the peri-urban areas around Melbourne, it features a skewed population (notably a loss of young adults & an ageing population); an increasing economic divide and a loss of a ‘sense of community ’ (especially outside of the townships); This area is in need of more employment opportunities and basic urban ser vices.

ECO-CITY provides local community a new lifestyle, it is build on connections and communications, it is open and welcoming, but also offers safety and enclosure at the same time.

This peri-urban design integrates and celebrates the interconnection between the ecology, the economy and the community of the proposed Tarneit community, in Victoria.

My design intention is to shorten the travel distance, provide more job opportunies for local residents and use the space effectively on food productions.

ECO - CITYCommunity

center

(The Hub)

Family Unit 2

Family Unit 1

Single Unit

Studio Unit

Farm Land

Vegetation

Roads

(right) All facilities are connected and within walking distance. ECO-CITY is surrounded by vegetation, providing privacy, enclosure and beautiful treescapes.

(above, left) Introducing a different life concept(above, right) ECO-CITY Site plan (not to scale)

ECO - CITY

The rooftop walkway provide residents with convenient travel conditions, people can enjoy the surrounding scenery in the process of arrival. There are small public places around every corner, such as children’s playground and a small garden, and there will be the place where people can socialize.

UPs and DOWNsproject type: PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN lecture/tutor: SARAH HAQlocation: BROADMEADOWS collaboration: INDIVIDUAL PROJECTstudio: GHOST SPACE tools: AUTOCAD, SKETCHUP, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, ILLUSTRATOR, PEN AND INK

“THE STORY OF BOXES”INTERVENTION & ACTIVATION

Different sized corrugated cardboard box and crates collected from the broarmeadowsshopping centre near by.

book exchange market set-upsite has now been turned into a market place, people can now bring in second hand

books and start exchanging!

All boxes and crates will form a big cube, this form is related to other geometric architecture buildings on site.

book exchange marketbuy/sell/exchange second hand books/magazines/ CDs.

Intervention: paint the exterior of the cube.Blue: global learning centre/ the age library

Green: hume city council

pack and leave the site nice and clean!pack everything you’ve got in these boxes and take them home with you.

This site is located in front of Broadmeadows Library, next to City of Hume, surrounded by train station, shoppingmalls and schools; However it has been ignored and missused due to its site condition: over exposed, very limited seating and lack of vegetation.

B e f o r e r e d e s i g n i n g t h i s space, an intervention and activation were designed to re-introduce this space to the public. My intention was to seek the potential of this space and show it to the local community.

UPs and DOWNs

(above) I was interested in shadows, i always found the harmony of soft and hard shadows tobe very attractive. So I wanted to create this harmony and bring it to this space.

Open/ public space should offer ‘great accessibility and freedom of choice for people to pursue a variety of activities’, the space then can become loose, as this looseness requires ‘social and physical conditions’.

UPs and DOWNs

SCALE @ A2NORTHDRAWINGPROJECT NAME

YIREN SUN

3261752

1:200SITE PLAN _ SEATS UPBROADMEADOWS CIVIC PLAZA

UPs AND DOWNs

STUDIO

Ghost Space

Tutor: Sarah Haq

(right)These adjustable seats are designed to save as much space as possible, allow the space become flexible and suitable for multi-purposes; and more importantly, the intention is to turn the space in to a real ‘public space’, where people act as a part of the space, also to accentuate indeterminate uses and make possible different types of groupings and individuals.

(above & left) movable sculptural seats are made of hard plastic, which is light, cheap and water resistant. The sculptural seats are connected to the ground by a very strong nylon rope with self locking swivel hook on both ends, these hooks then lock on to the fixed connection point on the seat and on the ground. (not to scale)

project type: PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN lecture/tutor: RHYS WILLIAMSlocation: CARLTON, MELBOURNE collaboration: INDIVIDUAL PROJECTstudio: IN THE SHADOWS tools: AUTOCAD, SKETCHUP, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP, INDESIGN, PEN AND INK

IN THE SHADOWS

The design proposal fosters the essence of shade/shadow, from its origin to its surroundings, by looking at shadow as a living matter.

As a landscape designer, I often look at the landscape first and then the details, this studio requires a different way of thinking.

(right) These cutting curves gives a sense of security and a strong sense of existence; At the same time, they are functional, they provide appropriate amount of shade, and the distribution of seats devide this space and create a physical path.

IN THE SHADOWS

(above) Transformation of shadows from 9am to 6pm

(left) This shadow transformation becomes the visual characteristic, a visual memory/experience is created.

IN THE SHADOWS

(above) Winter (above) Summer

Vegetation growing in the summer gives the shadow more density, as it might be required during hot weathers.

HAND GRAPHICS

OTHER INTERESTS

(right) I love to collect rocks, I enjoy the process of turning them from ordinary rocks to art. I always pay attention to details, to seek sparkles in rodinary things.

(right) I am a very artistic and creative person, oil-paintings are my passion and I have always been asked to paint for my friends' shops.

ZHIPING HU - DEPUTY GENERAL MANAGER WERKHAR T INTERNATIONAL ARCHITEC TURE DESIGN & CONSULTING CO LTD, BEIJING CHINAWWW.WERKHART.COME-MAIL: HUZHIPING@WWW5A.COMTEL: 010-8857 5555-3566

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