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Academic Works 2012-2019
Ge Guo Columbia University M.Arch gg2691@columbia.edu
01 Versatile Living (Winner of 2019 Buell Paris Prize) Flexible and versatile housing
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02 Risen Art Laborer Housing for art laborer
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03 Housing Prototype Synthetic design of housing system
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04 Innovative Study Center Activity center for left-behind children)
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05 Pleating Wall Public Library as Spatial Infrasturcture (2018 Spring)
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06 Sharing Platform Underground sharing exchange platform (2017 Autumn)
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OTHERS 01 Natural Instrument (Second Prize of Buell Center Paris Prize 2017) A Pier of natural sound
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02 A prison A house for criminal and his guard
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03 Corner House Conceptual to physical
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04 Circulation of Play Circulation design
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05 Pausing Theatre Movie theatre design
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06 To Disarrange Physical translation of a word
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07 The Multi-faced Corner of Fantasy
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Versatile Living
(Winner of 2019 Buell Paris Prize) -Housing Design as “In-Between“
Columbia 2018 Autumn ARCH4002 Architectural Design 2 Location: New York Program: Housing Instructor: Ilias Papageorgiou Group mate: Qi Yang
Fixed Service & Flowing Living The project inverted the traditional method of designing the housing project. Instead of designing several prescriptive units and aggregate them to the architecture, the four fixed housing elements were deisgned first. They are: courtyards as lightwells that bring in the light and view; circulation cores that bring in accessibility; service cores that offer water and electricity; and structural shear walls. Then the space flowing in between this landscape of elements can be divided to become our possible units. The elements are carefully placed in the site with a rhythm so that the circulation cores and service cores can also work as space divider for the interior layout. Through designing this way, every unit is unique and have abundant natural light, service and cross ventilation. Because all the space is with good quality and has necessary service, they are friendly to myriad activities. In that way, the architecture is versatile.
Model, 1:200
Typical Plan
Model, Circulation Path, 1:100
Detailed Model, 1:50
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Risen Art Laborer -Housing for Art Laborers
HKU 2015 Spring ARCH3046 Architectural Design 5 Location: ShenZhen, China Program: Housing Instructor: Tao Zhu Individual To rise the art laborers in Dafen village both in life quality and social status. To solve the conflict between increasing paintings demand and poor living environment of the labors. To mediated between generic tower and new vertical street tower.
Guo Ge 01 Risen Art Laborer
Fake Painting Industry Dafen village is famous for its fake painting industry in China. Located in Shenzhen, it enjoys good transpor tation resource and labor resource. In 2005, the sales volume of paintings in Dafen village has reached 0.2 million. In 2015, the amount has surpassed 6.9 million. The paintings are sold in a rather cheap price to the hotel, restaurant all over the wor ld. Meanwhile, the status of the ar tists there is low and so are their living condition. Most of the buildings are three -storeys high and ten people living in one room is quite a common phenomenon there. To meet the need of the fast development of Dafen village, high-rise buildings are going to be built. How to maintain the low-rise living style and habit in highrise building is what this project is going to discuss. At Dafen Village, painters taking their afternoon nap in the 12th corridor on the 3rd floor. Overlooked by the determined eyes of Van Gogh portrays. (Photo taken by Haibo Yu)
24:00 Sleep 22:00 Dinner
6:00 Start working 19:12 Sold one large painting
Selling
Exhibiting
Drawing
Living
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16:56 Finish second painting
Living
10:23 Sold three paintings
16:09 Chat with other painter
15:15 Start working
14:00 Lunch
A day of an art laborer
Vertical Street Studio The painters in Dafen village occupy the narrow streets between bungalows to do their paintings. The different scale of street accommodated different activities. The exhibition, production, selling, sometimes living all happened in the street. The project is trying to maintain the horizontal living style for the ar t laborers in Dafen village. Considering the future development of Dafen village, more high-rise building is going to be built, the proposal suggest a new highrise building prototype. The new prototype allows all living and working activities happen in one building, the street is a place for painting, selling, and exhibiting. The street also invite public into the building.
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Guo Ge 01 Risen Art Laborer
Dafen Tower
Market (“fake” art)
Dafen Museum (“real” art)
Activity Plaza
Urban Bridge The tower elongate the Dafen museum and transform the h o r i zo nt a l g a l l e r y i nto ve r t i c a l gallery, as a way of both attracting people up and maintain the e x h i b i t i o n f l o w. T h e t o w e r o n the other hand connects long bar shaped market to create a bridge between so called “fake“ar t and “real“ art. The building hopes to allow for dialogue between different kind of art.
Main Road
Entrance (Both Dafen Museum and Dafen Tower)
Massing model, 1:500
Massing model, 1:500
Floor slab model, 1:200
Floor slab model, 1:200
Structure model, 1:200
Envelope model, 1:200
Model, 1:100
To Merge The models explore the ontology of the building itself. The building is bridging the Dafen Museum and fake painting market, the building merged together to connect and to create a vertical high rise building. The building itself composed of a generic tower and a new street studio tower. The project discuss how the two buildings can merge together in the aspects of program, structure, facade, floor slab, and space.
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Guo Ge 01 Risen Art Laborer
Vertical Gallery
Section, 1:100
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Generic v.s. Street life The circulation is used as open studio and a place for showing and selling. Artists live inside the building and work in semi-public space or open street, for the buyers to appreciate the paintings and also their daily life. In this way, the paintings have more layers of information for the buyers. The paintings are not seen as pure labor work, but art. The architecture creates a tension between vivid street life and a common generic tower.
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21F-Duplex Level Plan
9F-Public Gallery Level
1F-Shophouse Level Plan
22F-Duplex Level Plan
20F-Duplex Level Plan
2F-Shophouse Level Plan
1F Plan, 1:100
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Guo Ge 01 Risen Art Laborer
Load-bearing wall(split to columns)
Track
Core
Circulation as tie beam
Transitional Structure Split load-bearing wall-The structure is transform from load-bearing wall to peripher y columns because of different space need of people. For people living in downstairs, a rigid division of shop house is needed, however, for people living upstairs, a free plan of unit layout is wanted. Slab-Folding slab to form weaving space-As new housing for artists, the space is weaved corresponding with the lifest yle. Workers can easily change their states from bedroom to studio to gallery. Tie beam-A wrapped circulation slab is also tie beam for the whole building.
Structure model,1:100
Duplex with viewing studio(125 ㎡ )
Free Plan (Periphery Column system)
Suit with “street” studio(85 ㎡ )
Space Division (Load-bearing wall system)
Suit with indoor studio(35 ㎡ )
Structural Reinforcement (Side-column system)
Unit in Transition The building provides three types of unit for the art laborers. Suit with indoor studio, Suit with “street” studio, and Duplex with viewing studio. The load-bearing wall system gives medium size unit space division; the Side-column system gives small size unit structural reinforcement, and the periphery column system gives large size unit free plan arrangement, allowing for different unit types. All the units are different with indoor/public outdoor/private viewing studios, based on the preference of the dwellers. 6
Guo Ge 01 Risen Art Laborer
Vertical Artist Compound The tower is composed of three different compounds for different types of living. The living in extension of Dafen museum is vivid, the living in generic tower is convenient and the living in generic tower enjoys best view of the village.The project aimes to rise the art laborers in Dafen village both in life quality and social status; to solve the conflict between increasing paintings demand and poor living environment of the labors; and to mediated between generic tower and new vertical street tower.
Final model,1:100
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A, Concrete load-bearing wall B, Vertical service system (ducts, power wires, pipes) ďż˝$ C, Concrete beams D, Concrete slab (with horizontal service system) E, Horizontal ducts, wires, pipes F, Steel handrail G, Wood space frame H, Roll-up door I, Translusent membrane J, Translusent insulation K, Rotatable panel L, Structural envelope M, Lift rail N, Lift car
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Housing Prototype -Housing prototype based on precedent study
HKU 2014 Autumn ARCH3045 Architectural Design 4 Location: No site Program: Housing Instructor: Yan Gao Team member: GuoGe & YangQi Conception 50% Model 50% Drawing 50% About a critic of building typology in Hong Kong About reconciling the conflict between the lack of communal space and high housing price in Hong Kong About a building system
Guo Ge 02 Housing prototype
Kanchanjunga apartment, Charles Carreo, India
Rethinking Public Space The project beings with the analysis of Kanchanjunga apar tment by Charles Carreo. The study discussed the building in the realm of construction and tectonic. The space and the program arrangement is carefully analyzed. The design tried to learn from and critic this building to make it better fit Hong Kong. The design is also a housing project.
Study model of Kanchanjunga apartment, 1:100
Separate v.s. Continuous Public Space
Housing Synthesis The design learns from Kanchanjunga apartment to make the whole building a synthesis. Different elements in the building, circulation, unit, public program, core, structure, facade all function interrelated with each other. One change of factor often result in the others changing because of the bounding of different elements.
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Guo Ge 02 Housing prototype
PROTOTYPE A -Massing Strategy
Dissolving the Solid As a critic of building typology in Hong Kong, the project propose to exteriorize the interior service core (circulation space), to save the humid and dark space and provide new communal space for people living in Hong Kong. The models discover the massing strategy.
Massing model,1:200
Generic tower
Split core
Wrapping cir
rculation
PROTOTYPE B -Circulation & Public space
Inserting Public Space Public program as joints of compounds and each compound has equal accessibility to the public program. The circulation connects all the public programs together. Public program is defined as knot or pausing moment of the circulation as the program merges into the linear circulation. How circulation penetrate through the public program is decided by the public program’s publicity.
Warping circulation-
Circulation as balcony-
shop
gym
Circulation as program-
Passing circulation-
party room
reading room Concept model,1:100
Circulation connecting public program
Unit
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Guo Ge 02 Housing Prototype
PROTOTYPE C -Circulation & Structure
Circulation as Brace The main structure of the building is two cores and two load-bearing walls. Circulation space can also ac t as “tie beam” of the building. The “u” shape cross section ensures stable structure performance. The beam is supported by load-bearing wall and core, while providing support for the u-shape circulation at the same time.
Outward structure
Inward structure
Inward&outward structure
Structure model,1:200
Public program A-Lobby (1F)
Public program B-Gym (3F)
Public program C-Party room (6F)
PROTOTYPE D -Circulation & Unit
Diverse Units For unit type, instead of using the whole flat as basic unit, the room is used as basic module. The grid system create different scale of rooms which can accommodate different programs. Because of the shape of circulation, pitched-roof space is generated and it is a double height living room.
Unit-45 ㎡
Unit-85 ㎡
Unit-125 ㎡ Assembled model,1:100
Public program D-Shop (10F)
Public program E-Party room (11F)
Public program F-Study room (13F)
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Guo Ge 02 Housing Prototype
PROTOTYPE -Synthesis
Section AA’, 1:100
Synthesis The building system is ultimately a cohere n t d e s i gn , w h e n e ve r y t h i n g co m e s to gether. The three factor(circulation, public program, unit t ype) is tightly correlated with each other. The location of circulation decide the type of public program, and the area ratio of the unit space while it influenced by the corresponding facade. The public program decide the shape of the unit and ultimately the facade of the building itself. The circulation space also serves as tie beam for the stability of the structure to take ver tical and lateral load. The circulation, public program, unit, structure, facade and service core is interrelated with each other and altogether form a synthesis design proposal.
Section BB’, 1:100
PROTOTYPE
Sectional model,1:50
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Innovative Study Center -Activity center for left-behind Children
HKU 2014 Spring ARCH2048 Architectural Design 3 Location: Shanghai Program: Education Instructor: Yuyang Liu Individual About providing a space suitable for both academic study and left-behind children’s activity About a new methodology of exploring urban relationship in an opening area About the balance children’s educational need and student’s academic need
Guo Ge 03 Innovative Study Center
Reality v.s. Imagination The conceptual drawing is the speculation of current factories. The inspiration comes from children, the imaginary drawing is in the eye of a child, how she would perceive the factory and the world around her. The imagination is surreal, but some of the ideas carry through the design process.
Steel factory
Flour Mill
Storage
Communal workshop
Bungalow
Movable exhibition
Playful studio
Transportation
Suspended circulation
Structure exposed office
Flour Mill
Studio with slide
Factory+ School + Children = Innovative Study Center
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Guo Ge 03 Innovative Study Center
Site analysis
Intersection with market
Program linked by floating circulation
Confront the waterfront
Playground for Children
Three Courtyard
Open public space toward water
Site map, 1:100
Massing model, 1:100
Site map, Oil painting, 1:200
Massing model, 1:200
To Compose The building’s solid and void relationship within its urban context(river, road, market, ware house...) is explored. The left space is tested to have the most proper usage for the children and the students of the center. Based on the merit of different geometry, the geometry carries the program. The layout of the geometry ensures proper circulation and program arrangement so that the building can function well within itself.
Studio
Cad-lab
Children’s play room Exhibition
Workshop
Lobby
Children’s video room
Exhibition Children’s small library
Meeting
Children’s playground
Leisure space for students
Resting space for visitors
Children Visitors Students
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Guo Ge 03 Innovative Study Center
Ground floor plan, 1:200
1F plan, 1:200
2F plan, 1:200
Move playfully between Floors The space of the studio is round, with a slide connecting different floor, for more convenient communication within the building and a more playful experience for the students. The openings of the studio creates frame for the beautiful views.
Visual Connection The space in the cafe is created for the visual communication between students and the playing children. The children can interact with architectural student and the students can observe the activities of the children to get more inspiration. 16
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Pleating Wall -Public Library as Spatial Infrastructure
Columbia 2018 Spring ARCH4002 Architectural Design 2 Location: New York Program: Library Instructor: José Aragüez Individual
Functional/Compact Space Spiritual/Loose Space Servant Space
Dynamic Lighting Condition
Space of Verticality Different from the pancacke model, the narrow and high vertical space let people experience the space in its full height. Different thickness of the wall accomodate various activities.
Long Section
Short Section
Site Plan
Converge/Diverge The converging and diverging walls create diversified spatial quality, create contrast between “norm“ and “event“. The space of verticality gives a sacret feelling thus add value to the program of library itself.
Main Itinerary- Unfold Section
Form-Program Relationship
Vertically Occupying the Wall Activity are attached to the thick wall. Stairs, working desks, furnitures, and bookshelves are inbeded in the wall. The vivid activities were happend vertically on each side of the wall, with the warpping wall being the navigation and “event“ system.
Spiritual/Functional Space The space was divided into two space, one is functional and the other is spiritual. The functional and compacted sapce was used as reading rooms with various area, and the spiritual sapce emphasised more on unique sapatial experience.
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Sharing Platform Columbia 2017 Autumn ARCH Core1 Location: 14th Street, Manhattan Program: Lost & Found Instructor: Tei Carpenter Individual
Place square content.
Free Circulation Flow and Sharing Space
Sequence of the Flipping of Site Model
HOME-MADE FOOD SHARING
BIKE & UMBRELLA SHARING
STORY SHARING
WORKSHOP
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Nature Instrument Second Prize of Buell Center Paris Prize 2017 Columbia 2017 Autumn ARCH Core1 Location: 14th Street, Manhattan Program: Pier Instructor: Tei Carpenter Individual
Instrument Study and Space Typology
NYC Sound Pollution New York City has long been a home to noise pollution. At the Eastern edge of the Manhattan, where people can get close to the river and to nature, the average noise level is higher than anywhere else on the island, reaching 80 decibel (dB), because of the FDR Drive. By introducing a nature sound space in East River Park , at the end of 10th street (elongated from Topkins square park and looking to the East river state park in Brooklyn), the project provides a space of acoustically immersive experiences where people can focus on specific kinds of sounds of nature . The cavities of the pier capture and echo with four natural sounds, based on the site condition: the sound of sea gulls, the sound of rain, the sound of wind, and the sound of wave.
Guo Ge 04 A Prison
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A Prison GSD 2014 Summer Architecture Design Studio 12 Location: Boston Program: Housing Instructor: Taraneh Meshkani Individual
3F
Height
Angle
Openings
Material
Architecture of Surveillance The guard needs to see the criminal all the time, the criminal should not n o t i c e t h e g u a rd o r b e i n g a w a re o f him being watched. The architecture i s a b o u t v i e w. D u r i n g i nve s t i g at i o n , the regular view for human being is 45 degree right and left, 45 degree down and 30 degree up. Based on the understanding of human habit, how the height, angle, openings, material, wall thickness, circulation pattern and light can influence the interrelationship of the criminal and his guard is explored. Wall thickness
Circulation
Light
Section, 1:100
Model, 1:100
Light Chimney The light chimney introduces light into enclosed cell of the prison. The celestial light comes from the sky lights up the cells as salvation for the prisoners. The prisoners are not only watched by guards, but also by god.
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Corner House HKU 2013 Spring ARCH1026 Architectural Design 1 Location: Guangzhou Program: Housing Instructor: Thomas Tsang Individual
The Corner House, Unfold Section, 1:100
Guo Ge 06 Circulation of Play
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Circulation of Play GSD 2014 Summer Architecture Design Studio 12 Location: none Program: Circulation Instructor: Taraneh Meshkani Individual
Move Playfully How many possible ways are there for a person to go from one place to another? With an intention to bring more happiness, the project tries to exhaust typologies of playful movement for people. The space and installation are designed according to human body interaction. Finally, a matrix with a playful circulation is created.
Maze of Play Based on the conception, the following process tries to design the sequence of human experience. Different types of circulation are designed by modules to allow them to be composed freely. A circulative routine is designed inside this maze of play. In the maze, to move is not simply working, but fully body interaction with the environment.
For swaying
For climbing
For sliding
For jumping
For climbing
For sliding
For jumping
For swinging
Model, 1:200
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Guo Ge 07 Pausing Theatre
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Pausing Theatre GSD 2014 Summer Architecture Design Studio 12 Location: Boston Program: Theatre Instructor: Taraneh Meshkani Individual
Void of Pausing Moment The project explores the possibility that architectural form can be defined by site. Based on the data collection of the frequency of pausing moments on site, the void is generated accordingly. The fluid canopy works as public space and the curtain screen at the same time.
Unfold Section, 1:200
Higher topography for public shows
Pausing moment created by building, topography, rooftop and light
View from open market
Model, 1:100
Process model, 1:200
View of the open theater
24 Open Cafe with greenery
Pausing moment created by building, topography, rooftop and light
Guo Ge 08 To Disarrange
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To Disarrange HKU 2012 Autumn ARCH1025 Intro to Architectural Design Location: None Program: None Instructor: John Lin Individual
Controllable
Uncontrollable
Inserting a brick
Knocking down a brick
Subtracting a brick
Interfering the Order The project uses layout of bricks and drawings to explore the idea of “to disarrange�, one interesting conception in architecture. The way of disarrange is a dialectic thinking between making a controllable interference and the uncontrollable outcome.
Section, 1:100
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Guo Ge 09 Ballet
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Ballet HKU 2012 Autumn ARCH1025 Intro to Architectural Design Location: GuangZhou Program: Installation Instructor: John Lin Team: WangYing, Stanley (group leader)
Models, 1: 200
Dance of Bricks The project is trying to use bricks to capture the motion of “Chaine� in ballet. The circle arrangement of brick is a imitation of the spin in ballet, and the bricks shift gradually to make the gentle and elegant motion of Chaine.
Interaction with Children The brick oval is pushed back and forward, creating circulative and different levels on the top. The form gives the installation sense of movement. The concept model is constructed on site with local workers. We lay cement and bricks in person. The result is satisfactory. Children start to occupy the leaning occupy in different ways out of our expectation.
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09 A Corner
The Multi-faceted Columbia 2017 Autumn ARCH Core1 Location: 14th Street, Manhattan Program: Corner Instructor: Tei Carpenter Individual
Place square content.
The Multi-faces of the Corner
Up and Down, Inside and Outside
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