Cheng guo march

Portfolio of Guo Cheng Applying for M.arch1 Program USC School of Architecture work selected from 2010-2013

Contents 01 Twisted Light

Three-dimensional construction 1st year studio/Mar.2010 Instructed by Lecturer Yang Jun

02 Soak in branches Home Space Design May-July.2011 Personal Work

03 Easy Removal,Easy Life Stationary Design 2012-2013 Personal Work

04 Drawing Scenery Freehand Drawings 2010-2013 Personal Work

05 Vanishing Raindrops Poem visualization and caligraphy Oct.2013 Personal work

06 Traquility

Photography of the creation-oriented tour of Hong Village Jun.-July.2012 Personal work

01 Twisted Light

Three-dimensional construction 1st year studio/Mar.2010 Instructed by Lecturer Yang Jun

The task is to design a three-dimensional construction without any limitation on craft or material. Through simple but pithy procedures I try to form an aesthetic atomosphere which present the ambiguous boundary between the plane and the curve.I also introduce the element of light into the construction.As Louis Isadore Kahn stated:to design space is to design light.Playing a role of formation , transformation and creation, the light bring another ambiguous space into the project.

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02 Soak in branches Home space Design May-July.2011 Personal Work

抙 Wood:stretch tree

branches

Fire:divergence

Earth:transform

Metal:convergence

Water:conhension

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The WuXing,also known as the Five elements,is defined as a fivefold conceptual scheme in ancient china. Chinese believe that it will not only affect the fate of a person, but also make the universe circulate at the same time.WuXing forms its general pattern based on the exact birth hour.However, the name of a person will somehow influnce the whole pattern,which allows parents to give a meaningful name as a blessed gift to help their children make up for the weak part of their inherent WuXing.

My last name,Cheng,which means the luxuriant orange tree(related to the wood element) in Chinese helps me form the basic concept for the House Design project.

I conclude that name is an enternal spiritual sustenance because it reflecs of the user’s inner aspiration.While the house, is always known to be a permanet shelter for one’s physical body.The value of support and protection resonates between them.

Light

skeleton

facade

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Generating interaction Overcoming interaction

Since the water element has a gernerating interaction to the wood element,the abstract pattern of water is then introduced to the detailed design based on the skeleton.Variation of the skeleton and the detailed design is interactive.

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03 Easy Removal,Easy Life Stationary Design personal work 2010-2013

High-density City

delete and lower

Peaceful Village

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Cramped Cubicle

expand

Capacious Space

Traditional Stationary

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The removal of the rigid limited space could always gain the sense of easy and light-hearted.By analyzing the possible method of removal,I get the idea of the stationary design.

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POST-IT DESIGN Introduction

Students say that they get frustrated and anxious when they write down all the items need to be down on the post-it based on a credible investigation.So I redesign the post-it by introducing the removal method,by which they can peel off an entry when they finish one particular thing.

CRAMMED,ANXIOUS, and EVENTUALLY UNDONE

1000-meter training Masterplan!

Deepen it! Give a call to Professor Yu. Watercolour Read Epicure ,chapter 2 site analysis Historical Reservation Thesis group-discussing translation assignments 3:00p.m 2203 Complete sections of Project 1 Attend the meeting at 5F,BuildingC. Think about Museum exhibiton of the lanscape pop art design, core around it. volunteer applying.

What Traditonal POST-IT BRING US

Conceptural Sketch

DONE

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adhensive back

DONE

thin plastic film

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common writing paper

Detailed Dsign

Different color indicating differnt day of week seasoned the post-it with vitality and legibility,from which people can analyze and tell the most efficient day of themselves and then give their assignments a better arrangement.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

DONE

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ERASER ENVELOPE DESIGN Introduction

Eraser is an frequently-used item in achitecture student’s life.We always come to a dilemma as to cut or just throw away the envelope when the eraser needs to be used further.By introducing the easy-removal mode,the new design enve lope is sure to bring much convenience.

Original eraser

Abc

After use

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Cut the envelope ?

get time wasted

or Just throw it away?

get soiled eraser

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A new easy-removal envelope

smart and clean Peel-off it when you need

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04 Drawing Scenery Freehand Drawings Personal work 2010-2013

River-watching Pavillion,Chengdu Rotring isograph 0.1mm,2011

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Always taking my pen as my singular camera, I have recorded a great number of splendid buildings on the way. Both the wooden-structure Chinese pavillion and gardens of southern yangtze selected in this page transfer a sense of hamonious intergration into their surrounding environment as well as a exquiste aesthetic feeling.

Humble Administrator’s Garden,Suzhou Rotring isograph 0.1mm,2012

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05 Vanishing Raindrops Poem visualization and caligraphy Oct.2013 Personal work

imaginary scene of the poet who retreats in the forest Ink pen sketch,2012 In my youth I listened to the rain in the singsong girl’s boudoir as the dim flickering light of the red candles casted on the silk curtain.

In my middle age I listened to the rain in the passenger’s boat.

The cloud were low and the river was vast, that cried in the west wind were the geese left.

Now I listened to the rain in the monasteries, as my temples has become grizzled.

Whenever I suffer joy and grief, confront unions and seperations, traquil as ever were my emotions.

The raindrops keep dripping, on the steps until morning.

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Youth age Ink pen sketch,2013 I develope my design in three period according to the poem,trying to meet the atomosphere in the poem througn the abstract graph.

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Middle age Ink pen sketch,2013

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Old age Ink pen sketch,2013

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Chinese caligraphy of the poem Ink pen,2013

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06 Traquility

Photography Records of the creation-oriented tour of Hong Village Personal work

This series is a part of what I recorded during the summerdays in Hong Village.Hong Village is a historic conservation area for Hui-style buildings.The whole village reserves traditional Chinese lifestyle.The wooden-structure and the brick-structure dwellings with their background landscape convey a sense of traquility.

Tree shadowďźŒHong Village,Anhui Province,2012 Lotus,moon gate,lantern

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Corbiestep,Hong VillageďźŒAnhui Province,2012 One of the most important charactistic in Hui-Style buildings,also called the horsehead wall because of the shape.

Tree shadowďźŒHong Village,Anhui Province,2012 Landscape around the Hong Vilage

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Thank you!

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