Chaoqiong Guo_Portfolio by Summer Guo

CONTENT 01.UPS hub

P01-03

location: New York, U.S. Group Work/2019 fall

02.Teamakers house

P04-07

03.Aquatecture

P08-11

04.Art-prison

P12-15

05.Anti-library

P16-19

location: Riga, Latvia Individual Work/2018 fall

location: Dalian, Liaoning, China Individual Work/2017 winter

location: Favignana, Italy Individual Work/2018 spring

location: Kabuchiko, Tokyo, Japan Individual Work/2018 summer

06.Other works

Practice of ancient Chinese architecture mapping Model of ancient Chinese architecture Visual literacy and its culture

PORTFOLIO

GUO CHAOQIONG

Selected works of 2017-2020 A story for time, space, and activities. +1 2678154894 gcq@upenn.edu 3600 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

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01.UPS Hub location: New York, U.S. Group Work/2019 fall/Instructor: Ali Rahim This studio's topic is UPS hub. It will explore design techniques, the history of New York Cities architecture and combine it with an understanding of global capital markets to develop a new Headquarter/ Distribution Center Hub for New York City. The site is on the corner of Washington Street and Houston Street in West SoHo. We are designing a project with three programs, a distribution network that houses trucks, UPS offices and a prototyping space that can turn around working prototypes fast. developing a new hybrid typology for UPS and New York City. The existing UPS hub is uniquely equipped to speculate on the future of the network Hub into a precise and novel architecture and urban proposal that are unprecedented that links local efficiency with global demands.

Concept The goal is to build an office space that can be used by people as well as machinery and logistics systems. The main concept of this project is the studies of the interlocking space. It not only creates an interlocking space created by the floor plates but also interlocks in multi-directions. While the programs are mainly defined as logistic space and office, this form of space allow each program to have its own autonomous function. Several designed logistic pieces are nesting into the space to create connection in between the space. The faรงade is designed as a double layer glass system which allows different types of glass panel (transparent, translucent, opaque) to be installed. Glass type would be defined by the program type which allow the most efficient lighting and shading. In order to support the faรงade system, inhabitable trusses are installed as the main structure system.

Floor Plan

Elevation

Site Plan

Section

For the site strategy, three similar interlocking chunks are connected by the truss system and the nesting logistic pieces. The human space and non-human space are evaluated equally in this UPS hub. The interaction between human and the logistic system has changed the way we perceive scale. Human interacting with automated system should be redefined in this project.

Office space is nested within the logistics system.A double glazed facade lets in the sun. Sunlight enters the office through the external logistics system which could provide a special lighting effect. Each part has its own independent logistics system and truck unloading point. While each part is relatively independent, it also colludes with each other.

02.Teamakers house location: Riga, Latvia Individual Work/2018 fall Ozolini farm is located in latvia. And this farm had been abandoned until 1977, when Brigita started lauku tea here. Lauku tea has been the most famous tea around the Europe since then. They insist of using the traditional way to produce tea. The site is surrounded with forest. The natural environment is also a vital concern. This house is built for teamakers to make tea and receive guests. The spaces and circulation of this house is designed based on a researh of their tea making process. Moreover, the relationship of different people's routes is also important and worth discussing. In this house, there are two routines prepared for teamakers and the tourist visiting here. The relationship between nature, tea peoducing process and the guests is the major focus of this design.

Producing process Ozolini farm

Ozolini farm is located in latvia. In 1977, Brigita discovered the abandoned Ozolini farm and started Lauku Tea. Then Lauku Tea was given European Union Organic certification in 1999, and was chosen to be the tea served to the Queen of England. For a long time, Lauku Tea has been produced in this farm and transport to other countries in the Europe.

Given their traditional way of hand makde tea production, the major processes have six parts. There are two different routines for two types of tea. Withering, frying, rolling, drying, packaging for green tea. Withering, rolling, ferment, drying, packaging for black tea.

green frying

picking up leaves

withering

rolling

drying

packaging

black

rolling

Program

ferment

drying

1 3 4

Site 1

withering

frying

2 5

rolling

teamakers

conbination

ferment

drying

packaging guests

a stone house from 1850

producing routine

drinking

exhibition

shop

section

Building Unit

sell

drink

produce

living

ozolini farm

drying

tea leaves

storage

Brigita holds dear the traditional methods of making tea while creating new opportunities for Ozolini, like hosting international workshares and self-care retreats for women on the farm. A new house for mutiple use is needed now.

Each single building is divided into 4 parts. The top two floors are prepared for the teamakers to produce tea. Every building is arrenged with certain tea making process. On the top floor, every building is connected by bridges so that tea makers could pass their work to the next step.For the gusets, the underground floor is built for them to buy, drink tea and visit exhibition about tea making. The two kinds of people could meet at the middle floor, dinking tea together.

production production rest tea drinking exhibition

Plan The entrances of teamakers and guests are different. For the teamakers they could get into the building through a slope crossing the old stone barn, they can also use the spiral stairs connecting the buildings and court yard. For guests, they need to go down the slope.

under ground floor

first floor

second floor

Section In the countryside of Latvia in the far northeast of Europe, the meadows and forestare cared for by the Lukina family. From the natural abundance of their land, the Lukina family has made herbal tea for two generations. Every petal, leaf, berry and herb is planted, harvested and packaged by hand.

03.Aquatecture location: Dalian, Liaoning, China Individual Work/2017 winter The life on Earth is today plagued by adverse c l i m a t e c h a n g e s , g l o b a l wa r m i n g , t h e increasing toxic emissions, rising population, and scarce land resources. Trying to discuss the possibilities of future stategy, this project especially focuses on the rising of sea level. Expecting to find a possible design solution for citizens to survive int the severe condition. This project's site is at Dalian, Liaoning. Dalian is in the south of Liaotung peninsula, the second largest peninsula in China. Locating in a vaelly, this city is one of the most dangerous cities facing this threaten.Thus, creating living spaces on water will soon become a need to survive. This projest tries to form a Utopia floating o n t h e wate r. C o n s i d e r i n g t h e l a c k o f transportation, a minimized city is created in this floating building. A possible model of living on water is discussed in this design.

Rising Sea level

Parasitism Living spaces play an important role in people's life. The arpartment for people will be classified for different needs and formed by the structure.This building remains the path way to the spaces above the water in those old buildings. This will promise commuters with the most convenient way to work.

Due to global warming, one of the most difficult p ro b l e m p e o p l e fa c e today is the rising sea level. Cities will be gradually overwhelmed.

Liaotung peninsula is the second largest peninsula in China. Dalian is in the south of it. This city is one of the most dangerous cities facing this threaten.

Liaotung peninsula

T h u s , c re at i n g l i v i n g s p a c e s o n wate r w i l l soon become a need to

Living units

Dalian-city

Site This project's site is located in Dalian's Gangwan square. This square is at the sea side, serving as an entrance of the city. When the water level rises, this square is the first place to be overwhelmed. There are multiple kinds of buildings in this area, including historical remains, commercial center and residential buildings. The spaces of cities will continue to change during the process of being submerged.

50m

10m

Overwhelmed by water

30m Overwhelmed by water

Overwhelmed by water

Multi-story buildings wil then be overwhelmed. Those remaining high-rise buildings will be the last places for people to survive.

Predicted Overwhelming Progress Today's cities consisit of buildings in different height. With the water level continue to rise, buildings will disappear in a specific order. Underground buildings will be submerged first like subay station. height

sea level

type

+1m

+3m

subway

temple

+10m

school

+15m

commercial

+20m

+30m

factory

museum

+50m

residential building

+100m

high-rise

time

Community This building works as a mini-city. It connects two bulidings in this area to offer people living here a convinient way to commute between this two original buildings. This building includes many major services of a city, having farm to grow crops, industrial area to produce daily goods, storages, government, commercial center, park, cultural center and living apartments. 5 conveyors in this building link every part of these functions and provide a convinient to transport goods.

04.Art-prison location: Favignana, Italy Individual Work/2018 spring In today's world, many historical remains are in a depressing situation. The culture meaning of these old buildings will be ignored if they are always vacant, having no actual connections with this city's contemporary culture. However, this kind of architectures should become a story teller, representing the history of the city. This project is lacated at Favignana. It is a renovation of an abandoned castle. This castle was used as a prision before. It onws many enriched stories. Therefore, this project focuses on how to exposed this castle's old spaces to the citizens and how to make this building become a storyteller to show the cities' history, combining newness and history at the same time.

Site

Fvignana-island

Original spaces

The castle of Santa Caterina and The castle of San Giacomo are two of the oldest castle here. Both of them were used as prison in the past time.

The castle of Santa Caterina is composed of many small vaulted spaces. Several stairs and a court yard connect them. There are two entrance of this castle. The first entrance is at the first floor. It leads people to the 3 small spaces with low story height. The second one is in the front of the castle, forming the most major trasport space in this caslte with the court yard. All the small rooms are about 2 to 3 meters height.

first floor

second floor

Cutting History The Castle of Saint Catherine was obtained by enlarging a pre-existing tower.At the end of 1400 the Lord of Favignana Andrea Riccio rebuilt the Castle of Saint Catherine in its current form that we know today. During the revolt of 1860, the Castle of Saint Catherine was looted and devastated and now lives in a complete state of disrepair.During the Second World War it was requisitioned by the Navy.

1031

1070

Norman

Bourbon 1600

1860

WW2 1940

third floor

inner space

Most of the old spaces in this Castle are vaulted and most of them are in a very small size. Given its history, cutting the old spaces and expose them will provide people more opportunities to read its story, while creating public spaces at the same time.

first floor

renovation second floor

defense fort

prison

third floor

spaces created

Creating new spaces

original

inside

circulation

The Castle of Saint Catherine has existed for hundreds of years. The outlook if it is a

The inner spaces of this castle are plenty of small vaulted spaces and these spaces are

There are several routine in this castle. There are three major intersections-- two entrances and a court yard.

extra volume

forming

new spaces

These three major intersections need to be enlarged to load new functions. Thus, three

These three Cube Spaces could be used to do boolean operations and form three

New spaces are formed. They can load new programs and provide people a place to

Expose the old space The old spaces in this castle experienced many events, recording the stories of this area. People from different time have different activities here, leaving their trails. Thus, this weather beaten architecture could represent Fvignana's culture. Exposing the old spaces can make people read these fascinating stories of ancient people in this castle and creating new spaces for present use.

Platforms

Section A-A

1.Entrance-exterior

2.Exhibition area-exterior

3.Art salon-exterior

1.Entrance-interior

2.Exhibition area-courtyard

3.Art salon-interior

This castle will become a museum and art center. Artists from all over the world will come here and create their works. Also, guests visiting this island will also have a place to know local history through exhibition.

Plan

first floor plan

second floor plan

third floor plan

Circulation 4

entrance

exhibition

art studio

exhibition 5

exhibition

roof

This castle is located on the top of a moutain. The original passway is not convinient for guests. So a terrace is created around the building. People could walk around and hold big activities here. Compared with past, the castle now has more public spaces that contain more

These three platforms will improve the circulation and reorganize the spaces. Visitors will experience a series of different kind of spaces as well. The new circulation is arrenged on the base of the past circulation. The rooms along the route are mostly serve as enbition room for artworks. People entering this building in the main entrance will have a woderful art journey. 15

05.Anti-library location: Kabuchiko, Tokyo, Japan Individual Work/2018 summer There is a severe phenomenon that few historical elements could been found in people's daily lives and the precious historical remains are just serving as tourist spots like isolated islands, leaving no actual connections with cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contemporary culture. A huge gap exists between history, culture and today's cities. This project's site is located at kabuchiko district, the biggest red-light district of Asia. After the world war 2, Japanese government decided to named this district after kabuki, one of the most famous Japaness traditional drama, expecting that it could revive their traditional culture. However, this place damatically developed into a big red-light district. Hence, this project is focused on recalling the tradition back to today's city, trying to transform an old kabuki theater into a new form being fit in the existing context in the kabukicho.

Traditional Kabuki theater

Site The site is located beside kabuchiko district, the biggest red-light district of Asia. It is named from kabuki, a kind of Japaness traditional drama.

shops entrance

This district is built to revive Japanese traditional culture by playing kabuki, the most important conventional drama in Japan, in this district. Today there is no kabuki theater in this place. The buildings here are narrow and long owing to the scarcity of land in Tokyo. Any building here should develop vertically.

Recomposition

information

restaurant

clubs

market

Transform

traditional theater

modern buildings

transform

In order to make the building fit the city environment, the old spaces could be transformed in to new form by reorganizing the spaces vertically.

Structure

This library is formed from the extracted elements of traditional kabuki theater. The transformed stage and auditorium are intended to evoke citizen's nostalgia for old memories.

Kabuchiko District

The site is located beside kabuchiko district, the biggest red-light district of Asia. What's more, this district is built to revive Japanese traditional culture by playing kabuki, the most important conventional drama in Japan, in this district. It is so tricky that today there is no kabuki theater in this place and it finally becomes such a place so different from the one the government wanted it to be. 17

Function There are four different spaces in this library. Firstly, it serves as a library. On the lower floors, spaces are more open to public. On the upper floors, spaces gradually become private. Meanwhile, there are two theaters on the first and third floor, serving for the whole block, playing kabuki for the citizens. All these spaces and functions are connected by the stairs and elevators.

transport

theater

public area

private area

Circulation

Plan

The stairs work as structure and are also used as transportantion. This stair connects several major spaces in this library, representing hanamichi in traditional kabuki theater. Wandering in this stairs could offer people a journey to wander in this building.

The extracted elements could also be read from plan. The grid and inclined stage hanamichi influence the space not only vertically. In lower floors, the spaces are more piblic. On the contrary, higher floors own better privacy.

Theater for city

cad-block.com

auditorium

stage

entrance

The theater on the ground floor is open for the city. The auditorium apply the traditional auditorium in old kabuki theaters.

outdoor stage

hanamichi stage

main stage

The third floor theater also has a outdoor stage serving for the city. It also has a stage representing hanamichi in traditional kabuki theater. This stage is above the main stage. This theater is rounded by red stairs connecting different stories. The major performance is played on the main stage. 19

06.Other Works Practice of ancient Chinese architecture mapping location: Zuibai pond garden Group Work/2017 summer

Visual literacy and its culture Instructor: Kutan Ayata Individual Work/2019 Fall

Model of ancient Chinese architecture location: Shanghai Group Work/2018 spring