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RUNXUE GUO EDUCATION LEED® Green Associate™

2018 - 2021

ADDRESS 100 Willoughby St, Brooklyn, NY

2014 - 2018

PHONE (917)-783-2400 EMAIL runxue.g@gmail.com

MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE Pratt Institute, New York / GPA 3.81

BFA INTERIOR DESIGN School of Visual Arts, New York / GPA 3.85 BFA with honors / Dean’s list student

EXPERIENCE 06/2020 - Present 12 Months

ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATE INTERN URBAN A&O, Brooklyn, NY 2D Drafting, 3D Modeling, Rendering, Animation, Presentation Graphic Design, Research, Invoice and Contract Editing. • •

11/2017 - 5/2018 7 Months

Lead Designer - Project Energos (Data Center in Nevada, Platinum 2020 Outstanding Property Award) Project Manager - COP 26 (Education Center in Glasgow)

INTERIOR DESIGN INTERN Stuart Mager Interior Design Auto CAD Drafting, 3D Modeling. • Silverman-Rosen (Residential Project in Manhattan.)

09/2017 - 5/2018 9 Months

SPECIAL PROJECT ASSISTANT SVA, Interior Design Department, New York, NY Designed and build department's exhibitions, and exhibition board graphic design. Assistance to department administration.

SKILLS

09/2017 - 12/2017 4 Months

Designed exhibition and installation, Graphic and Website Design. • BECK Exhibition • JIZI GIANT- Journey of Spirit • Kendell Geer Performance

2D_SOFTWARE

Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Lightroom Microsoft / Google Office Suit

05/2017 - 09/2017 4 Months

VISULIZATION SOFTWARE Vray TwinMotion Enscape Lumion

ACHIEVEMENTS 10/2020 - 03/2021

01/2018 - 02/2018

DIFFA “Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS" Designer & Project Manager My design "Red Room" was selected to be built with three other students to represent the School of Visual Arts. We built the dining space for ten guests within a $2500 budget. The project was published in Interior Design Magazine. (Other participants in the annual charity event: Gensler, Rockwell, HOK, etc. )

3D Print Laser Cut CNC

Sketches Water Color Acrylic Painting

OPAL Platinum 2020 Outstanding Property Award Lead Designer I was the lead designer for project energos awarded a Platinum Outstanding Property Award London (OPAL) in the category of Property Development. I worked on the concept design (3d modeling, rendering, and master plan) for three buildings and one landscape design.

FABRICATION

HAND DRAWING

INTERIOR DESIGN INTERN Ming Jiang Interior Design, Chong Qing, China Interior Design Space Planning. Furniture and Material Selection. Construction Document Organization. • Ming Jiang Office • ShunShanFu Luxury Residential Design

3D_SOFTWARE

Rhino AutoCAD Grasshopper Revit Unity 3d Max Sketch Up ZBrush Cinema 4D

WEBSITE AND EXHIBITION DESIGN INTERN WhiteBox, New York, NY

03/2017 - 04/2017

DECORATORS CLUB EDUCATION FUND COMPETITION Competitor Represented School of Visual Arts to participate in Decorators Club Education Fund Competition.

ACADEMIC WORKS

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

ARCHITECTURE

Project Energos

Living / Working Space

COP 26 (WIP)

Lower East Manhattan Red Hook Puzzling

INTERIOR DESIGN

205 West End Studio

Shroud

1088 Park Avenue

Pulsating Gardens

Silverman-Rosen 1001 82ed Street

INTERIOR DESIGN

The Red Room

Tang

Ming Jiang Office

A Fluid Space

ShunShanFu

Pulsating Gardens | Architetcure Academic Work | 2020

Pulsating Gardens Chinese Landscape Paintings & Synthetics Nature 2020 Fall

Architecture Design Studio 5

Course Instructor

Ferda Kolatan and Angela Huang

Partner

Zhuojun Yun and Niyousha Zaribaf

Location

Zibo, Shandong, China

Software

Rhino, Grasshopper, V-ray, Lumion, Adobe PS, Adobe Illustrater

淄博市 Zibo, Shandong China The city district of Zibo, the third largest by population within the Shandong province, has been a key stone mining location till recent years. The excavation activities, particularly focused on the Zichuan sub-district marked the rural areas of the province with invasive interventions and disruptions of the local ecosystem. The mountainous area is today characterized by woodlands, villages, mine pits in quarries and terraces built with stone. The extraction activities have been terminated, generating the need for new purpose and value in a location with unique cultural, ecological and social conditions.

2020 | Architetcure Academic Work | Pulsating Gardens

山水画

C H I N E S E L A N D S C A P E P A I N T I N G

道

T A O I S M

The character Tao (道, Dao) means “path” or “way.” All major Chinese philosophical schools have investigated the correct Way to go about a moral life, but in Taoism, it takes on the most abstract meanings. It advocates non-action ( wuwei ), the power of softness, spontaneity, and relativism.

无为

W U

W E I

Wu Wei involves letting go of ideals that we may otherwise try to force too violently onto things; it invites us instead to respond to the true demands of situations, which tend only to be noticed when we put our own ego-driven plans aside. What can follow is a loss of self-consciousness, a new unity between the self and its environment, which releases an energy that is normally held back by an overly aggressive, wilful style of thinking. The Tao Te Ching tells us that we should be like water; ‘submissive and weak’, yet with unsurpassable power to overcome what is hard and strong.

和

H A R M O N Y

Nowadays, mining activities are aggressively happening worldwide, and its impacts and changes the landscape—the quarry bringing the new texture to the earth, but the process polluted the water. The Pulsating Garden uses the Taoism philosophy of Chinese painting to hybridize mining space and existing conditions to show the harmony of human activities and nature.

法

W A Y

The Way is like an empty vessel that yet may be drawn from without ever needing to be filled. It is bottomless; the very progenitor of all things in the world. In it all sharpness is blunted; All tangles untied; All glare tempered; All dust soothed. It is like a deep pool that never dries.

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | G

G | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

G Living / Working Space 2019 Fall

Architectural Design Studio3

Studio Instructor

Kutan Ayata

Location

Downtown Brooklyn

Site Area

206,560 sq ft

Software

Rhino, V-ray, Adobe PS, Adobe Illustrate

The studio project explored a Shared Live-Work Hybrid Tower project in Downtown Brooklyn, incorporated variations of micro-units. The Tower will have units for a single/group of individuals and small families. It will be up to the students to determine and conceptualize the distribution and nature of shared spaces, as well as the work environments. New potentials of adjacencies will be explored between and within units. Modern concepts of shared amenities, their distribution, and spatial constructs within the body of the Tower (s) will be investigated.

G | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

The form of my building is keeping the idea of connecting two bars. So all these strips look like are separate deleted, but they are all connected as one large piece. By bending the wall, windows are going in and out of different sizes. Some of them become balconies. And those windows are also merging, becoming one piece. We started with research on the example plans where on the triangular site, to start from the plan, and to build our concept, then use the idea to develop a three-dimensional form of our building. The concept is merely using three bars to fill the site. Instead of building bridges between them, I bend and curved these strips to merge the top or the bottom part. End with more shared spaces and openings in this building.

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | G

G | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | G

We started with research on the example plans where on the triangular site, to start from the plan, and to build our concept, then use the idea to develop a three-dimensional form of our building. The concept is merely using three bars to fill the site. Instead of building bridges between them, I bend and curved these strips to merge the top or the bottom part. End with more shared spaces and openings in this building.

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019 | G

Shroud | Architetcure Academic Work | 2020

Shroud Waste to Energy Incinerator 2020 Spring

Architecture Design Studio 4

Course Instructor

Joe McDonald

Partner

Zhen Bai

Location

University Heights, Bronx, NY

Software

Rhino, Grasshopper, V-ray, Lumion, Adobe PS, Adobe Illustrater

The building is shroued with a skin to question the experimental relationship of bringing industry into the city and urban life. The Shroud penetrates into urban life, exposing the processes of waste to energy as a learning experience while also merging nature and public programming for people to come and enjoy.

Electrostatic Precipitation Boiler Incinerator

Chimney/375' Scrubbers

Swimming Pool

Recycling/Sorting Un-Loading Area

Private Diagram

Thermal Diagram

Elevator Indoor Garden

Entrance Outdoor Park

Diving Pool Scuba Diving Pool

Public Diagram

Facade Diagram

2019 | Architecture Design Studio 4 | Shroud

The private machine systems start from the un-loading area. The waste will transfer to burn in the incinerator. That energy will turn to electricity and heat the swimming pool. The last two steps are scrubbers and chimneys, which will clean the gas and release it into the atmosphere. The public programs are outdoor parks, indoor garden, swimming pools for diving, and scuba diving. Those programs are closely aligning with the machine are, and it provides chances for visitors to learn and participate in the sustainable system.

Shroud | Architecture Design Studio 4 | 2019

We know the insanitary is an industrial program to deal with our life waste. We should celebrate how this program can magically help and protect the environment. University Height is an unusual site for an industrial building. It is a crowded city; there is a train station right beside our location. Comparing the surrounding area. The residences building around are mostly around 100 feet tall simultaneously; our chimney is 375 feet. This means our building will be giant and evident for the locals. Our project uses the new skin like a shell to shroud the industrial city with the recreation program, blending into urban life. By having 20% openings and using different materials, we are not entirely hiding it and not fully exposing it.

ETFE TO ETFE

etfe to Glass

ETFE TO GLASS

GLASS TO GLASS

Shroud | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Shroud

Concrete Panel Wall Shealth

A Wall Shealth Concrete Panel

Bolt

Pipe Structure Wall Mount

Insulation

Vertical Reinforcing Panel Fixing Concrete Mansonry Unit (CMU)

B Steel Cover/ Closure Plate Adjustable Curtain Wall Anchor Mesh Reinforcement Concrete Slab Metal Deck

Clear Reflective Insulating Vision Glass Unit

Natural Silver Anodized Vertical Mullion

Shroud | Architetcure Academic Work | 2020

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Shroud

Boiler Output Return Floor Heating Output Floor Heating Return

Water Cooled Chillers Output Return Heat Exchange

Mechanical Systems The Shroud temperature is only controlled by the three AHU (Air Handling Units with VAV system). Each of them locates in public, mechanical, and working areas. There are three Water Cooled Chillers (with Pump beside) to connect with each of the AHU, and those chillers will be cooled down by heat exchangers where located at the river bed.

AHU Output Return

The Boiler (with Pump beside) is connected to the incinerator below to exchange the extra heat from burning. The boiler can also work individually without incinerator, and provide floor heating for recreation areas.

Incinerator Gas Input Heat Exhanger

Air Ventilator BUMP

One Air Ventilator to exhaust the bad air from the waste holding area.

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Shroud

Interiority | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

Interiority Experimental Project 2019 Spring/Mediam

Media Section2

Course Instructor

Hart Marlow

Location

Downtown Brooklyn

Software

Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, V-ray Adobe PS, Adobe Illustrater

This project is mainly to design a fun and inspiring interior space located in architecture for public use. I started from building interior spaces (wall, floor, stairs) in Revit. After that, we export the revit model into Rhino and adding more texture or abstract geometries into the spaces to make a more exciting environment.

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Interiority

Aggregation | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

Aggregation Experimental Project 2019 Spring/Mediam

Media Section2

Course Instructor

Hart Marlow

Software

Rhino, Adobe PS, Adobe Illustrater

The process of combining and aggregate a new designed architectural threshold. Then extrude it, reorganize it to be a structural, three-dimensional and spacial 3d printed model. Using section, axon, and plan drawings to analysis this final design.

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Aggregation

Puzzling | Architetcure Academic Work | 2021

Puzzling Natural History of Museums 2021 Spring

Architecture Design Studio 6

Course Instructor

Dwayne Oyler, Jenny Wu

Partner

Hanqiao Chen

Location

Taylor Yard River Park, LA

Software | Technology

Rhino, C4D, Keyshot, V-ray, 3D Print

Our original Berrocal puzzle has a smooth layered shell from the outside, but after disassembly, you can find that many pieces containing the outer skin extend to the inside and latch the smaller pieces by some unexpected turns. And we reproduce this language in a new three-dimensional form. The new form maintains the connection language between pieces of the original Berrocal puzzle. Some puzzles with large differences in size are combined into a new one, and emphasizes their sense of sculpture.

Large puzzles are used as the skin and structure of the entire model, which are snapped together and locked by smaller puzzles. Some symbolic puzzles give you hints, allowing you to find connections and contact points between different puzzles, slide in and tighten them in a inherent sequence. From the appearance, the two different metal textures cross each other, and blurring the boundary between internal and external. The big copper puzzle is used as outer skin and base is fixed on the ground by the small key puzzles. Then another big steel puzzle is connected with other pieces inside. Finally, the insertion of a small key puzzle makes the entire model stable.

Once we move to the 2d Puzzle part. We started to explore the inside intergradation. Take it out to the ground. We interested in how to use the unique shape of the key to interlocked with the base. But we kept the imperfect looking of the puzzle. At the same time on the elevation side, we carved in and out base, which gives the puzzle more flow and logical looking. There are 21 keys in our puzzle. It needs to be place in the right order. Some of them are inserted into the base from the side. These are the pieces of our 2D puzzle. They play different roles in forming the final puzzle. Those keys are lifted up like a bridge, to connect each piece of the base. Those separated base are tightly locked by keys. Also, those keys provides a lot of potentials to extend and connect.

On the inside, the 3D puzzle we call it "cylinder" is essentially built up of these smaller and more rectilinear fragmented pieces. And our key strategy was to place the cylinder on the side horizontally. Allow it to float above the surface, so that it maintained its autonomy, but allow the smaller elements to spill out the site. So that there becomes a little distinction in certain moments between what are parts of the building, and what are parts of the landscape. The landscape becomes this matrix of elements that are building like. We thought about ways to treat this cylinder, as sometimes existing as a solid shell, and at other times taking on characteristics of the block. And we also thought about how the ground might play a role in that relationship. In some places, the seam between the ground and the cylinder is not obvious. You would see the blurring of the relationship between the internal and external of the cylinder and forming different types of interlock with one another.The landscape becomes this matrix of elements that are building like. We thought about ways to treat this cylinder, as sometimes existing as a solid shell, and at other times taking on characteristics of the block. And we also thought about how the ground might play a role in that relationship. In some places, the seam between the ground and the cylinder is not obvious.

You would see the blurring of the relationship between the internal and external of the cylinder and forming different types of interlock with one another.The landscape becomes this matrix of elements that are building like. We thought about ways to treat this cylinder, as sometimes existing as a solid shell, and at other times taking on characteristics of the block. And we also thought about how the ground might play a role in that relationship. In some places, the seam between the ground and the cylinder is not obvious. You would see the blurring of the relationship between the internal and external of the cylinder and forming different types of interlock with one another.The landscape becomes this matrix of elements that are building like. We thought about ways to treat this cylinder, as sometimes existing as a solid shell, and at other times taking on characteristics of the block. And we also thought about how the ground might play a role in that relationship. In some places, the seam between the ground and the cylinder is not obvious. You would see the blurring of the relationship between the internal and external of the cylinder and forming different types of interlock with one another. The material becomes white paint wall when the space is interior. The skin and shell materials for each volume are switching between Steel and Bronze. Smaller keys with vertical core are bronze. The large volume with shells are mostly steel.While we are bonding those keys together, we left the variety sizes of spaces between them. Like carved out space on the ground or open spaces along with stairs. They provided us chances to display small geological rock, while also providing areas that would allow for enormous pieces like a dinosaur.

Red Hook | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

Red Hook Middle School Project 2019 Spring

Architetcure design Studio 2

Course Instructor

Maria Sieira

Location

21-31 Delevan Street Red Hook, Brooklyn NY

Software | Technology

Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, V-ray Adobe PS, Adobe Illustrater, 3D Print, CNC

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Red Hook

Red Hook | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Red Hook

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Red Hook | Architetcure Academic Work | 2019

2019 | Architetcure Academic Work | Red Hook

This project is starting from discovering the positive and negative spaces by carving out one cube with one single project. I chose one cube with the best interior spacing quality. I cut out the cube to design the space and circulation. After the plan, we created the facade, make some enclosure and openings.

Lower East Manhattan | Architetcure Academic Work | 2018

Lower East Manhattan Experimental Project 2018 Fall

Architetcure design Studio 1

Course Instructor

Peter Macapia

Location

131 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002

Software/Technolodge

Rhino, Grasshopper, Laser Cut, CNC

2018 | Architetcure Academic Work | Lower East Manhattan

Architecture Professional Work | 2020

Project Energos Reno Architecture Professional Work Type Time

Industrial/ Commercial Development 2020 June - 2021 Jan

Company

URBAN A&O

Clients

TerraScale

Location

Hazen, Churchill County, NV

LINK:

https://issuu.com/urbanao/docs/project_energos_reno_urbana_o_maxsize

Project Energos is TerraScale’s global plan to design, develop, finance and build the infrastructure required to accommodate our planet’s rapid increases in data usages, enable heightened response to emergencies and power our planet, all in a resilient and sustainable fashion. Through the Project Energos global rollout TerraScale intends to change the face of the data center industry by combining on-site renewable energy with modular data centers creating a truly clean and redundant facilities in 20+ different locations globally, commencing with the Energos Reno pilot project near Reno, NV. At a high level, the Energos Reno project strategy is to leverage the first on-site renewable energy microgrid into a modular data center of 20MW, with initial anchor load from the United States Air Force. This data center will have the capability to be expanded to commercial client needs with the power to keep running even if there is no sun or wind.

DATA CENTER 80,000 SQFT DARK HORSE GREEN RAIL CENTER 68ARCES

UPRR MAIN RENO

LINE VISITOR CENTERS

Our goal is to unleash a new wave of critical infrastructure development in the United States, while also creating programs and bringing key partners to foster innovation, economic growth, job creation and sustainability while enhancing the energy and data security interests of cities across the country.

GEOTHERMAL PLANT

FERNLEY

DISTRIBUTION CENTER 1M SQFT

UPRR

E N I L MAIN

LOT68-TERRASCALE WAREHOUSE 3.75 ACRES LOT 69-RENEWABLE ENERGY PARK WAREHOUSE 3.75 ARCES 50

Interior Professional Work | 2018

205 West End Studio

1088 Park Avenue

Interior Professional Work

Type

Time

Residencial Renovation 2018 May - 2018 Aug

Time

Residencial Renovation-Furniture Plan 2017 Dec - 2018 Jan

Company

Stuart Megar Incorporated Interior Designers

Company

Stuart Megar Incorporated Interior Designers

Interior Professional Work | 2018

Silerman Rosen Renovation

1001 82ed Street

Interior Professional Work

Type

Time

Residencial Renovation 2017 Dec - 2018 Jan

Time

Residencial Renovation 2018 May - 2018 Aug

Company

Stuart Megar Incorporated Interior Designers

Company

Stuart Megar Incorporated Interior Designers

Interior Professional Work | 2017

Ming Jiang Office

Shun Shan Fu

Interior Professional Work

Type

Time

Office Design and Build 2017 May - 2017 Sep

Time

Luxury Residencial Design 2017 May - 2017 Sep

Company

Ming Jiang Interior Design

Company

Ming Jiang Interior Design

Rendering:

Photos

Interior Professional Work | 2018

The Red Room Achivement, Publishment, Design and Build DIFFA: The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS’s Dining by Design event, held in six U.S. cities throughout the year, recruits event and interior designers to create elaborate dining installations for a fund-raising dinner. For the 21st installment of Dining by Design, designers and manufacturers brought elaborate vignettes to Pier 92 in New York. DIFFA’s annual fundraiser, part of the Architectural Digest Design Show, supports organizations that fight HIV/AIDS. Leaders from Perkins + Will, Rapt Studio, Rottet Studio, Rockwell Group, Gensler, and more, dreamed up wonderful spaces full of glamour, vibrant eye-catching colors, and whimsical settings. Third-year Interior Design student Erin Checkosky and fourth-year Interior Design students Runxue Guo, Anna Harea, and Brandon Perler represented the College and built "The Red Room," a circular setting meant to create a sense of unity and act as a visual representation of the HIV/AIDS awareness movement. Advised by Interior Design faculty member Maureen Crilly and DIFFA-mentor Tyler Wisler, the students designed, fabricated, and installed their entry in roughly six weeks, and with a tight budget. As one of the three schools invited to take part, along with graduate programs from Pratt and Parsons, the team was awarded a $2,500 stipend to complete the project. Limited time and funds meant students had to budget and strategize; this required getting creative with materials, writing to companies for donations, and turning to classmates for help with fabrication processes and installation. The final product is a compact space saturated in a vibrant red and dominated by cylindrical elements—architectural tubing, stools, a round table, and scores of hanging paper lanterns. The students, as written in their description, hoped to create "a celestial aura that emphasizes the feeling of hope and prosperity." The room-defining paint was donated by Benjamin Moore, draping fabric by Carnegie Fabrics, and lighting—which Guo deemed the most important aspect—by Interior Design faculty member John Newman. "I remember checking in at one point and it was a lot of work—it’s not only designing and fabricating, but they're doing a lot of project management," said Director of Operations Lucas Thorpe, noting that the three senior students are also in the midst of completing their theses. "But they still were super positive about it, super excited."

Web Links: https://www.interiordesign.net/articles/14712-trend-of-the-week-cindy-says-give-back/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BgmfLnJlLtX/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=embed_video_watch_again https://sva.edu/features/dining-by-design-svas-interior-design-students-transform-a-space

Interior Professional Work | 2018

ADDRESS

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PHONE

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