Emily Guan Portfolio

Emily Guan

Hello.

I am a third-year architecture science student who loves exploring and pursuing new challenges whether they are design or personal. I believe that design is a constant exploration to create something that is sensible and resonates with others and the context.

Education

Exploring various fields of trades and enhancing my knowledge of construction materials and their properties through hands-on work

Networking with professionals in different areas of trades

Work Experience

Planned and lead architectural activities for campers

Created activities and games for kids, helped plan and execute day camps in collaboration with other staff members

Taught campers softwares such as Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign

Scheduled and managed clients’ information and assisted clients with inquiries

Created activities and games for kids, helped plan and execute day camps in collaboration with other staff members

Cared for children ages 3-12 and communicated to parents regarding their child’s daily activities

Recognition & Extracurricular

Worked on detail drawings in collaboration with others for a design-build project

Provided guidance and assistance for first year architecture students in softwares including Rhino, and the Adobe Suite

DAS Year End Show

Work selected for Year End Show (Hide & Seek)

Skills

Revit 2023

Autocad 2023

Interests

Metamorphosis

City High School

Surrounded by upcoming condominium developments and a park that promotes communal interactions, the school acts as an interface between the park and the urban surroundings. By serving as an extension of the park, the school incorporates green spaces that interject into the rigidity of traditional school spaces to create a series of spatial conditions that flow into one another. On the ground level, the school engages with the urban context, embodying the busy and active atmosphere of Dufferin street. As one goes up the levels, the spaces transform from a dynamic and public atmosphere to a serene, park-like, space. Within the school, clusters of gathering spaces are spread throughout the floors to encourage spontaneous moments of interaction between the students.

Location

Project

Softwares

Toronto, Ontario

ASC 520 Design Studio

Revit 2023, Adobe Photoshop 2022, Adobe Illustrator 2022, Twinmotion

Zoning and Program

Building Form

Circulation

Exploded Axonometric of Programmatic Elements

Green Space

View of the rooftop courtyard

Sectional Model of the East Facade

Sectional Model of the Gym and Rooftop Courtyard

Icelandic Movie Pavilion Mirror

Project Softwares

Grjótagjá, Iceland

Iceland Movie Pavilion Competition

Embedded within the earth, a warm wooded movie theatre space protects the viewer as they enjoy the movie. The pavilion is enclosed by a heavy concrete structure and fronts a sunken plaza. An observation deck is suspended above the sunken plaza where the structure just barely rises above the landscape in rift-like ridges. Here, the visitor’s exposure to the landscape is enhanced through mirrored reflecting pools.

This composition of enclosed and exposed space celebrates both the immediate cave and rift landscape and the extensive use of landscape in Icelandic movies. The movie theatre space is thus the warm heart of the project.

In collaboration with Heba Al-Fayez

Rhino 7, Adobe Photoshop 2021, Adobe Illustrator 2021, Twinmotion

Location

Mirror is a tribute to two iconic motifs of Icelandic life that appear consistently in Icelandic cinema. Images of the solitary person within an unending, otherworldly landscape are often contrasted by views into warm interiors where people gather. This movie pavilion expresses these two modes of Icelandic cinema through enclosed and exposed spaces.

Intercontinental Rift

Landmark rift above + space embedded in the landscape

Exposure highlighted in the landscape

NS Section

1. Theatre

2. Tickets

3. Projection and Storage

4. Reflecting Pool

5. Outdoor Stage

Exterior

Bancroft Housing

Residential Housing

Location

Project

Softwares

Bancroft, Ontario

ASC 401 Design Studio

This residential complex aims towards densifying the town of Bancroft while also creating public spaces and walkable neighbourhoods. The arrangement of residential units creates pockets of public spaces where the residents can gather. In conjunction with the residential complex, an arts and cultural community space provides a gathering place as well as a shared art studio.

Rhino 7, AutoCad 2021, Adobe Photoshop 2022, Adobe Illustrator 2022, Enscape

The commercial spaces are located on the ground floor along the public front of the residential units

An arts and cultural center that invites the community to gather and connect through art

A two-story family unit that allows for a business or office to run within the unit

A single-story meets the universal

Ground floor plan

Accessible Residential

single-story unit that the conditions for universal accessibility

A combination of 2-3 bedroom units that are located within the residential housing

Level

floor

Axonometric of a Unit

Bird’s-eye view of the residential complex Model of the residential complex

Conceptual collage of the community space

Story Telling Pavilion Hide & Seek

Location

Project

Softwares

Venice, Italy

ASC 201 Design Studio

Nestled in a quiet neighborhood in Venice, the Hide and Seek is a storytelling pavilion that aims to use the interplay of light and shadow to create a series of spatial moments that explores the relationship between light and shadow. The motif of arcs is found throughout the project, framing moments of rhythmic repetition between light and darkness, capturing the moments where light and darkness punctuate each other. The arcade serves as an intimate passageway between the cafe and an ethereal church-like storytelling space that opens up to a park.

Rhino 7, Adobe Photoshop 2022, Adobe Illustrator 2022, Enscape

School in Ethiopia Yermot

Location

Project

Softwares

Extra-Curricular

The project aims to help improve the design of the existing schoolhouse in Yermot, Ethiopia. We communicated with the people who are from the village of Yermot in hopes of designing a school that can be simple for the locals to construct and adaptable for expansion, all while making use of passive strategies and local materials. This is an ongoing project with the goal to create a design school that provides a more comfortable learning environment for the students in the village.

Schoolhouse 5

In collaboration with Amanda Lang & Jade Branker

Yermot, Ethiopia

Revit 2023, Rhino 7, Adobe Photoshop 2022, Adobe Illustrator 2022, Twinmotion

Upslope valley breeze during the day Cooler air at higher elevations flows back down during the night

The form and orientation of the building are arranged in a way such that it maximizes the amount of ventilation throughout the day and night.

Fabric draping prevent interior spaces from overheating

Corrugated sheet metal roofing

Primary steel-frame structure

Wattle and daub partitions

Exploded Axonometric by Jade Branker

Drawn by Jade Branker

Gathering Space

Design-Build Sonder

Designed and built over the course of 3 days

Location

Project

Softwares

Toronto, Ontario

Timberfeaver 2022 Competition

Rhino 7

This pavilion was built for the Timberfeaver competition which took place in a span of three days. Teams of architecture and engineering students had one day to design and two days to build. The pavilion is an inviting and visually immersive space for reflection within the community. The community garden pavilion will act as a place to cultivate crops and have experiential exchanges among members of the community. By acting as a buffer against the opinions and thoughts of others, it is a place where one can escape from the troubled outside world.

In collaboration with: Jake Levy, Matthew Teixieira, Samuel Slugen, Namariq Abdalsed

1. 2 x 4 studs

2. 1 x 4 top + bottom plates

3. 1 x 3 frames

4. 1/2 plywood sheathing

5. 1 x 3 siding

6. plywood planters