RUNDONG YING
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rundong-y-a77b692b9/
Portfolio: https://issuu.com/rundong2025/docs/portfolio_2023-2025_rundong
EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY | Aug 2022 – May 2025
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, University of Liverpool - UK | Sep 2019 – Jun 2021
BEng Architecture, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University - Suzhou, China | Sep 2017 – Jun 2019
WORK EXPERIENCE
Architectural & Interior Design Intern, Joyce D. Silverman Interiors - Brooklyn, NY | Spring 2026 – Present
• Assist the Project Manager across multiple project phases, including site surveys, concept development, drafting, and presentations.
• Develop photorealistic renderings using digital modeling and AI-assisted workflows to communicate design intent, spatial atmosphere, material palettes, furnishings, and lighting strategies.
Architectural & 3D Modeling Intern, Peter Coffin Studio - Brooklyn, NY | Summer 2025 – Present
• Develop 3D modeling and construction drawings in Rhino and Revit for architectural projects and artistic sculptures.
• Translate conceptual sketches into architectural drawings and documentation, including living/workspace layouts with furniture, wood framing systems, and MEP plumbing and sewer design coordination.
• Support technical coordination with architects and contractors, including foundation sizing with slab-on-grade / plie foundation, and material takeoffs.
Architectural & Real Estate Intern, Copper Beech Project - New York, NY | Summer 2024
• Led schematic design and proposals for mixed-use and urban projects using Rhino, AutoCAD, and Adobe Suite.
• Conducted site visit and zoning analysis to inform massing, programming and planning strategies with FAR calculations.
• Developed placemaking and circulation strategies grounded in user experience, community engagement and site activation goals including park design based on pedestrian flow analysis and andscape coordination
• Produced diagrams, renderings, and presentation boards for consultant meetings and reviews.
• Collaborated with consultants (Pei Architects) to refine design and integrate technical feedback.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Modeling & BIM: Rhino, Grasshopper, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit (Autodesk Certified Professional)
Visualization: V-Ray, Enscape, Lumion, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro
AI - Generated Imaging Midjourney, DALL-E, Comfy UI Environmental Analysis: ArcGIS, Ladybug Tools, Climate Studio Fabrication: Laser Cutting, CNC Milling, 3D Printing . Documentation: Microsoft Office, Google Slides, Notion
DESIGN SKILLS
Architectural Drawing, Programmatic and Spatial Studies, Parametric Modeling, Axonometric and Exploded Diagrams, Site Topography and Environmental Analysis, Digital Collage, Material Board Development, Rendered Perspectives, AI-Assisted Visualization, Digital Fabrication, and Physical Model Making
I am a Master of Architecture graduate from Pratt Institute with professional experience across architectural design, spatial studies, 3D modeling, technical documentation, and visual representation. My background includes work on architecture, interiors, urban, and development-related projects, with involvement in multiple phases from site research and concept development to drafting, rendering, and design communication.
I am proficient in Rhino, Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, and Adobe Creative Suite, with additional experience in parametric modeling, visualization workflows, and AI-assisted design representation. I value both design clarity and practical execution, and I am especially interested in the relationship between spatial quality, technical development, and effective presentation. I am seeking opportunities where I can continue growing as a designer through thoughtful collaboration and hands-on project work.
Diagram Structure Diagram
Wrapping is considered a method of describing volume, and also a simulation of lightness by building components. And finally, the roof, sunshades, curtain walls and skylights together embody the space in a simulated form of wrapping. Similarly, the facade is exposed to the urban background, presenting a wide and long panoramic view.
Each building component is adopted as a result of adapting to a specific function. The market requires a continuous curtain wall to provide a panoramic view of the city. The greenhouse needs more skylights to ensure sufficient light, which leads to the roof splitting into three. This decision is the result of the mutual evolution of function and form.
The project is more about fading the floor and ground, letting them give way to the simplicity lightness and pure grayscale of light and shadow of the white roof. The continuous dynamic between the roof and ground simulates waves hitting the water.
Reclaim NYC: Underhill Plaza & Broadway Junction
The studio applies the emerging paradigm of river daylighting to Midtown Manhattan, the path of the De Voor’s Mill Stream, in pursuit of this question: How do we design with water as material and the river as agent?
The impact of online commerce coupled with the effects of Covid 19, have accelerated the demise of brick-and-mortar retail space. We propose to reutilize this space as a new urban amenity by combining the daylighting of the stream with a public sculpture gallery.
We choose a series of storefronts and their basements on 51st Street between 3rd and 2nd Avenues as our site. Different idiosyncrasies of building types there allowed us to play with the dynamic of height from the basement to ceiling. The new streambed starts near the bottom of a skyscraper on 3rd Avenue, then gently follows 51st street, turns around and connects to the corner of 2nd Avenue. Benefited from fractal modeling, the stepping streambed design also creates a substrate for landscaping composed of varied riparian plants to support the ecosystem of the daylight stream.
The streambed is split into two by a raised spine that constitutes the circulation and exhibition space. The spine bypasses the cores and staircases of the existing buildings, sometimes in the back, sometimes in front of them. The glazing also reflects the behavior of the spine. Sometimes it parallels the spine and staircases, sometimes pushes forward or crosses the stream.
The spine creates interfaces between the exhibition space, and the street level, while the stream constantly switch between them. Pedestrians and gallery visitors will have views not only looking into the streambed but also looking back to street from the interior. Conversely, people walking on the sidewalk will have views across the newly daylit stream and deep into the greenspace of the block’s interior.
WAYS OF WATER: Riverbeds to Rooftops
Daylighting Program in Midtown Manhattan
Exploded isometric Sections
This project explores vertical expansion of a neighborhood centre in Singapore, integrating rainwater collection and inbetween spaces between added volumes.
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Site photos were processed in Midjourney to generate curated assets; prompt iterations explored greenery, timber façades, and contemporary design directions.
Curated assets were composed into a new façade, introducing clean balcony while maintaining building’s blue & yellow color.
ALTERED ESTATES: Field Work & Speculations
ARCH648B&D / Summer 2023
Kazeka Mbekeni, Rundong Ying and Michael Centeno
Prof. David Erdnman / Hart Marlow / Olivia Vien Edgar Westerhof
The project site is Sea Ranch, best known for its design ethos to harmoniously integrate architecture with nature. Buildings nested in tree rows as the natural landscape, situated to highlight the overall beauty of the Sonoma County ecology over individual buildings.
However, due to climate change, Sea Ranch is more vulnerable to wildfires than ever before. Any vegetated landscaping around buildings increases fire risk and is therefore recently prohibited by the California fire prevention requirements. The community must now rethink how to seek new landscaping approaches that can mitigate the effects of wildfires while still integrating architecture with nature?
The studio will propose a new master plan for Sea Ranch and reinvent the landscape design aesthetic to connect humans and nature in a more fire-safe and equally intimate way.
Defensible Space
Closed to the ‘Wildland-Urban Interface’, the project uses roads and parking lots to create a fire protection zone, and uses trails to further distance the project from the interface.
Topography: New Landscape
The project creates new landscapes using topography, shaping the land to create rises and dips in elevation. Floors, steps and roofs are strictly aligned or parallel to the topography of the site.
Accessibility vs. Topography
Ramps are not perpendicular or parallel to the contour lines, but are arranged diagonally. So that a longer distance to cross the topography will welcome wheelchair users to the new landscape.
Advanced Design Research 1:
Professor: Jeffrey Inaba Co-teacher: Emily Lawrason
Sea Ranch New Landscape:
Accessibility vs. Topography
Design 2: INTERIORITIES AND CONTEXTS
Concept Design:
The studio focused on how concepts are generated and contributed to the interior. The studio discussed edgerton diagrams and ideonomies as methods and used them to describe concepts in a confrontational behavior. The refined concepts are applied to the relationship between the site context and the interior. In other words, the concepts extend from the site context and converge on the site to generate interiorities.
Produced construction drawings including foundation layout, timber framing schedule (beams/columns), and skylight detailing.
Small House with Skillion Roof Peter Coffin Studio, Fall 2025
Section
Barn Renovation, Residential
Peter Coffin Studio, Fall 2025
drawings defining deck structure/dimensions/ placement and second-floor new/existing timber framing coordination.
THANKS!