Haobo Sun

Senior Landscape Designer

A landscape designer in Starr Whitehouse’s Atlanta Studio, Haobo is a CAD and GIS specialist who manages documentation from concept design through construction administration. For Emory University’s new Oxford Memorial Park, Haobo is providing 3D modeling and project visualization in support of concept design development. At Atlantic Chestnut, an affordable housing development in Brooklyn, NY, he is providing construction drawings and construction administration. For Ace Sand Park, a ten-acre park on a former industrial site in Roswell, GA, Haobo used ArcGIS to generate topography and flooding diagrams to analyze site vulnerability. Previously, he developed a full range of design drawings, renderings, and diagrams for the AlphaLoop, an urban, multimodal transportation system in Alpharetta, GA. Haobo completed his master’s in Landscape Architecture at Ohio State University, where he received the Ohio Chapter ASLA student honor award in 2021 for his academic achievements. Haobo has previous work experience at AECOM’s Shanghai office and received his bachelor’s in Landscape Architecture from Chinese Cultural University in 2016.

Representative Projects:

Park Design
Emory University Oxford Memorial Park Design, Oxford, GA
Ace Sand Park and Children’s Stormwater Garden, Roswell, GA
Don White Memorial Park, Roswell, GA
Riverside Park, Roswell, GA
Bear Mountain State Park Restoration, Bear Mountain, NY
Manhattan Greenway Harlem River Waterfront Park Design, New York, NY
Arverne East Nature Preserve, Queens, NY
Niagara State Park Wayfinding Plan, Niagara Falls, NY
Lakebottom Park Restoration Plan, Columbus, GA
Theo Mcgee Park Restoration Plan, Columbus, GA
Jialu River Urban Park Design, Zhengzhou City, Henan, China*

Streets, Public Realm, and Infrastructure
Georgia Tech North Avenue Vision Plan, Atlanta, GA
North Point Parkway, Alpharetta, GA
AlphaLoop Link Downtown, Alpharetta, GA
Destination Greenways! Leif Ericson Park to Verrazzano Bridge, Brooklyn, NY
Green Infrastructure Challenge: MLK Living Lab, Atlanta, GA
Green Infrastructure Challenge: Continental Colony, Atlanta, GA
345 Courtland Streetscape Design, Atlanta, GA
Roswell River Parks Fitness Loop Trail, Roswell, GA
Broadway Boulevard Plaza, New York, NY

Site Plans + Housing
Georgia Tech Alumni Garden, Atlanta, GA
98 Cone Workforce Housing, Atlanta, GA
Midtown Manhattan High Rise, New York, NY

Other

In Pieces: augment ecosystem capacity in Everglades Agricultural Area, FL*

* Work completed prior to joining Starr Whitehouse