FANG (FRANK) SUN



Fang (Frank) Sun graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture degree from the University of Virginia, distinguished by an insatiable enthusiasm for the intersection of architecture, artificial intelligence, and digital fabrication.

After completing a four-year program and a year of practical experience, he has immersed himself in developing sustainable and resilient design solutions through robotics and digital fabrication. With a minor in computer science, he explores AI, computational methodologies, and adaptive modeling.

His current work focuses on rapid housing reconstruction for natural disasters, utilizing 3D printing, robotics, and automation to enhance efficiency, optimize material usage, and improve structural resilience.

Now pursuing dual master’s degrees in Architecture and Science in Design: Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) at the University of Pennsylvania, he continues to blend technical expertise, creative vision, and innovation to advance digital fabrication and resilient design, while currently working as a Research Assistant in the Polyhedral Structures Laboratory (PSL).



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02 The Church: Without Walls — A Confluence of Timber, Light, and Local Spirit

Competition Work
Team Work
Summer 2025
This chapel is conceived as a nexus of community, culture, and faith—collecting the memories of Moramanga and inviting people into a space for worship, connection, contemplation, and healing. As a “Church Without Walls,” the design dissolves boundaries between inside and outside, blurring the line between church and community as echoed in Romans 12:5. Instead of a traditional linear procession, three naves bring “the body” closer to “the head,” while a 20-meter-high central vista anchors the chancel and allows the altar to open toward the landscape, reinforcing Christianity’s ethos of openness and accessibility.

Reimagining orthodox Christian spaces, the design arranges the congregation around a series of pavilion-like “huts” inspired by local vernacular forms. Three rectilinear platforms radiate from the altar, each crowned by a conical timber-raffia roof whose extended eaves and pivoting vertical fins provide shade, ventilation, and enhanced acoustics. Local materials—indigenous Malagasy fabric expressed through brick patterns, along with timber, laterite, and fired brick—root the chapel in its cultural context, ensuring it is built by and for the community, becoming a place where divinity meets humanity in Moramanga.