Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Cornell University

Sr. Designer at Stoss Landscape Urbanism

STIMSON

Landscape Architect

Boston Architectural College

Instructor

Teaching MLA Advanced and Site | Ecology | Design studios

Rhode Island School of Design

Critic

University of Calgary

Teaching Fellow

Stoss Landscape Urbanism

Sr. Designer

Instructor for Architecture Design Studio for Harvard Design Discovery Program

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Teaching Assistant for Re-tooling Metropolis II: LA

Re-tooling Metropolis: Working Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism” Option Studio with Professor Chris Reed

Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative

Researcher

Instructing the weekly Media Labs workshops for the Landscape Core IV studio coordinated by professor Pierre Belanger.

Teaching Assistant

TA for Professor Chris Reed's Re-Tooling Metropolis: Houston Landscape Urbanism option studio.

Research Assistant

Mohsen Mostafavi Architecture

Designer

42 Trinity Place Residential Tower RFP: Executed winning proposal for tower proposal in Financial District, New York, NY [Spring 2015]
NYC Residential Tower RFP:  Conceptualized and executed winning proposal for 70-storey tower in the Hudson Yards, New York, NY [Summer 2014]
35XV CA: Coordinated drawings with construction team, inspected and punchlisted all units in the building for occupation, New York, NY [Summer 2015]  
Pirallahi Island Master Plan Competition: Submitted High Technology Park RFP on an island near the Caspian Sea, Baku, Azerbaijan [Winter 2014]
Twin Towers: Submitted SD package for 74-story residential and a 64-story office tower with mixed-use podium [Fall, 2014]
Ames Street Residences: Designed and developed from Concept Design to DD, a 280-unit, 250-foot tower, Cambridge, MA [Spring 2014 - Summer 2014]
3 Hudson Tower, Lobby Design: Executed SD plans, sections, 3D models and interior renderings for client meetings and packages, New York, NY  [Fall, 2014]
Seaport City Feasibility Study: Envisioned six urban design schemes based on different flood protection techniques, produced master plans, sections and perspectives, Collaborated with Arcadis, HR&A, Ocean Coastal Consultants and others to publish final public report, New York, NY [Fall, 2013]
FAR/Form Master Planning Script: Wrote a parametric script in Grasshopper to generate six different master plan schemes of tower forms based on FAR calculations and financial models for the proposed site lots, which spans over twenty New York blocks, New York, NY [Fall, 2013]
Software Piloting: Tested a Cornell energy performance simulation software: Sustain to optimize the energy and daylighting performance of building designs, reported the findings to the FXFOWLE teams, the clients and the Cornell Program of Computer Graphics to improve the software, New York, NY [Fall, 2013]

FXFOWLE

Working under the Program Director Dr. Donald P. Greenberg

Developing and Beta testing the Cornell energy performance simulation software: 
Sustain, by implementing it on projects in progress from various architectural firms 
through new methods such as parametrically based energy analyses

Summarizing the findings for two case studies with complicated geometries on campus: 
the Cornell Plantations Welcome Center and Gates Hall

Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics

Research Professional

Designing and prototyping the Arduino based interactive mold installation, which showcases toxic beauty systematically, for ACADIA Conference in University of Waterloo, 2013 

Measured and documented the existing conditions of the Waterfall House in Manlius, 
NY. Produced working drawings and 3D models 

Worked alongside with the principals to redesign the 60’s cubist house to enhance energy 
performance, interior circulation and programmatic needs

EPIPHYTE Lab

Worked closely with the partners to engineer and fabricate the doubly curved walnut 
wall for residential interior design

Executed the working plans, sections, wall details and renderings for the project

Produced and resubmitted the as-built drawings for the Maker Space Project at the New 
York Hall of Science

Situ Studio

Design and Research Intern

Built 3D models with complex geometries for energy performance simulations, 
lighting tests and rendering

Collaborated with national Autodesk offices to learn about Revit Architecture’s energy 
modeling engine; summarized ! ndings in academic reports

Investigated BEM culture and usage in architectural practices (Gensler, Hornherger + 
Worstell and Robert Frear Architects)

Compiled lecture materials for Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age, a 1000 ~ 3000 
level class cross listed under 5 disciplines

Reseach Intern

Designed and executed one of the four schemes for the Nanjing Suning Headquarters Competition (short-listed)

Oversaw the production of the drawings and renderings for the International Airport Competition (short-listed)

Created and maintained the company's blog for the Asia division

Sonny Xu