KELLEY GU SUMMER 2016
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LOOKOUT Located on the French River, 25km southwest of Lake Nipissing, Lookout is a water conservation laboratory placed on the rock of the Canadian Shield. The project is composed of several residential towers
that rise among the trees, a big laboratory building that looks out to the opposing bank and includes a gathering area and boat storage, and finally a floating barge-house. This studio project experimented with ways
of representation and as such, the model was created using a variety of scavenged materials and the perspective views were painted digitally ro evoke a certain sense of surrealism.
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unfolded section collage created using adobe photoshop and illustrator
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THE CONSERVATORY A library with a built in maker’s space. A center for conservation, but also distribution and dispersal of collective human knowledge. Because the site was so long and narrow, the building has
taken the form of a ramp winding up two floors. Bookshelves are placed on the ramps and act like walls, providing alcoves for private study.
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URBAN LANTERN
in collaboration with January Chen, Mayuri Paranathanan, and Sydney Shilling Emitting a subtle glow, the Urban Lantern not only draws people back home to its location, but also envelops its inhabitants
under its protective light. It is constructed on a parcel of “junk space�, space that is left over between other buildings, and so
our first move was to preserve a pedestrian lane and build the mews-like houses around it.
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ENERGIZER
in collaboration with Roni Haravon for the COTE Top Ten for Students Using tools like HEED (Home Energy Efficient Design), we attempted to design a netzero classroom building for two 25-child classes. The cost of
mechanical heating and cooling was reduced with the strategic placement of shading devices. The roof is angled to maximize PV panel gain. Ventilation
and daylight were explored through diagrams and made more efficient through repeated iterations.
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CO-QUILTING A space can be radically transformed and re-purposed through a single, simple move. By clearing from a living room all furniture save for a table
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and a few chairs, a room that is seldom used suddenly becomes a place to talk and work. The fabric squares on the walls were sourced from scraps and
soften the corners; to create the communal quilt, one must pluck a square from the wall and sew it on by hand.
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PARC DES BUTTES-CHAUMONT Observing the nuances of the picturesque. Terrain, vegetation, pathways. The presence of the city around the park. What one sees and does not see through different moments in time.
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The Chinese style landscape painting is an immersive perspective of the park’s elements, adopting that iconography to represent ButtesChaumont and Paris beyond.
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2X2X2 Through an in-depth study at 1:1 scale, one achieves a greater understanding of both the microand macro-processes present in the natural world.
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A two-foot by two-foot by two-foot cube from the Canadian Shield was documented and abstracted into a model made from common building materials.
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The Brew Crew
in collaboration with Haley Gamble, Laura Nayman, Alice Huang, and Winon a Li for Abe Erb Brewery
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The goal: design, build, and budget an outdoor pavillion for the enjoyment of summer refreshments and physically construct it at 1:1 scale.
Inspired by our chosen site on school grounds, we presented the form as a series of interlocking planes that match existing datum lines such as the
height of a step or a hight of a rail and through that language we form areas to sit and talk.
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