PORTFOLIO SU GU 2018-2020
Su Gu
Burgemeester Patijnlaan, Den Haag, 2585CC, Netherlands
+31 6 25573662 gus1@student.unimelb.edu.au
SKILLS Drawings Hand-drawing Rhinoceros AutoCad Grasshopper
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Editing / Graphic / Production Illustrator Photoshop InDesign Enscape Adobe Premium Model Making Microsoft Office Languages Mandarin English German
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TRAVEL
Northern Europe Central Europe
Northern Europe
Central Europe Cyprus Greece Greece
Cyprus
China
China
Australia
Austral FIji
EDUCATION 2020
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (2018. 03- ) Master of Architecture Melbourne, Australia DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (2020. 02- 2020. 07) Spring Semester Exchange Program At the Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment Delft, Netherlands
2018
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE (2016.03-2018.12) Bachelor of Environment major in Architecture Melbourne, Australia
2017
UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART (2017.01-2017.02) Winter Exchange program Stuttgart, Germany
2017
TAYLORS COLLEGE OF SYDNEY UNIVERSITY (2015.01-2015.11) Foundation of Design (Science Stream) Sydney, Australia
WORK 2018
HUASEN ARCHITECTURE & ENGINEERING DESIGNING CONSULTANTS LTD. (2017.11-2018.01) Full-time Internship Kunming, China
VOLUNTEER/EXPERIENCE 2020
2018
2017
CO-GROUND CAFE (2018.07- ) Cafe Assistance/Barista Melbourne, Australia OPEN HOUSE MELBOURNE (2018.07.29) Tour Guide for AIA Hub 41X Melbourne, Australia MELBOURNE WRITERS’ FESTIVAL (20117.08-2017.09) Venue Support for Multiple Programs Melbourne, Australia AND Speaker Series Association (20110.03_2018.10) Event Host Melbourne, Australia
2016
The B Envs Peer Mentoring Program (20116. 08) Peer Mentor Melbourne, Australia
REWARDS 2020
MELBOURNE GLOBAL SCHOLARS AWARD (2020) Offered to high achieving students who undertake overseas programs Melbourne, Australia
2019
BUFFER FRINGE PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL (2019.10) Selected Work from Installation “Displacement” Exhibited. Nicosia, Cyprus
2015
GOVERNMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES (2015.10) 2015 NSW International Student of the Year Award Finalists (School Category) Sydney, Australia Rotary Distinct 9876 Model United Nation (2015.05) “Highly Recommended Speaker” Sydney, Australia
CONTENTS 01. EVOLUTION THEN-NOW-THEN
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02. Convolution and Liminality: The Entropic Selfs in Impermanence
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03. A u RCADIA
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04. CONSTRUCTION DESIGN
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05. ARCHITECTURE APPLIED TECHNOLOGY
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06. MISC
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01 EVOLUTION then-now-then
Delft University of Technology (M.ARI) Year 2/Semester 1/2020 Studio: The Why Factory Group Work Tutors: Prof.ir. Winy Maas, Javier Arpa, Lex te Loo, Adrien Ravon
The Why Factory (T?F) aims to analyze, speculate and construct future scenarios that design could bring on a planetary scale. This studio produces a catalogue of (im) possible world of 19 scenarios (with 6 selected ones are detaily designed), from universal to specific and global to local. It explores various ranges of “urgencies” and “disasters” from “then to now”. Manhattan was selected as the site where all future changes will be taken in place. By manipulating, categorizing and analysis mostly related “parameters” to the urgencies, different future scenarios and evolutions are speculated and developed, thus, build a world from “now to then” (2020-2200).
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ATLAS OF TIMELINES (SELECTED)
cement production steel production
threatened species
steel co2 emissions global co2 emissions
solar energy generation
INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMO
GDP per capita difference international migrant stock
cement co2 emissions non renewable energy
human population
temperature anomaly
global wealth inequality
agricultural land use
extinctions
people in poverty
water withdrawels
inequality
solar irradiance
population density
median age
precipitation anomaly
energy consumption hunger
death rate population growth rate
bird biodiversity loss marine biodiversity loss
vegetation index
biodiversity loss index
water shortages
pv cost
OVERLAPPING URGENCY
global average income share of global income %
terrestrial biodiversity loss
2020 URGENCY TIMELINES OVERLAPPING
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water scarcity unsustainable energy biodiversity food scarcity
carbon emissions overpopulation migration crisis inequality
threatened species
cement production steel production
steel co2 emissions global co2 emissions solar energy generation extinctions
GDP per capita difference international migrant stock
cement co2 emissions non renewable energy
human population global wealth inequality
agricultural land use
people in poverty
water withdrawels
inequality
solar irradiance
population density
temperature anomaly
median age
precipitation anomaly
energy consumption hunger
death rate bird biodiversity loss marine biodiversity loss
vegetation index
biodiversity loss index
2020
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carbon emissions overpopulation migration crisis inequality
water shortages
terrestrial biodiversity loss
population growth rate
pv cost
global average income share of global income %
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water scarcity unsustainable energy biodiversity food scarcity
ONG URGENCIES
Atlas of timelines, maps, calculations are researched and reproduced throughout the whole studio. The relationships among “parameters� (index and notions that relates to the researched topics) which cross diverse disciplines are also studied. Proposed future scenarios are speculated based on these scientific research and data collecting and analysing. A tool and a methodology to generate, visualize, measure and compare the impacts and performances of those different futures is developed (Evolution Tweaker ).
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Immortal(c)ity
Timberland
Moving up
Moving up city in 2200
URGENCIES
Solar City
Accessibility Biodiversity Built-Up Footprint Density Ecological Footprint
Food demand Waterlands
Freshwater Scarcity Health Migration Crisis Natural Disasters Overheating Resources Wealth
Urbaniframing
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PARAMETERS
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Transportation Speed Migratory Birds CO2 emissions per capita Use of Office Space Building Height Cement Production Steel Production Ecological Footprint
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CO2 emissions per capita Agricultural Land Use Population Growth Freshwater Withdrawals Death Rate Light Distribution Migration Flows Rainwater Anomaly Albedo Landuse Coverage Solar Energy Production Waste Production Global Average Income
tonnes / year
Liv. PI. Index tonnes / year hours a day metres billion tons million tons gha/capita
km2 number of people m3 people/1000 W/cm2 number of people mm index km2 TWh million tonnes euros
MOving up city in 2200
HOW CAN WE... How can we improve the accessibility of our planet? How can we increase biodiversity by adopting birds in settlements? How can we improve working conditions when people are increasingly working at home? How can we live in greater density? How could we build in a more sustainable way? How can we decrease our ecological footprint by bringing urban settlements with ecosystems? How can we stop exploiting our planet? How much urban forest do we need to offset our CO2 emissions? How can we feed everyone? How can we supply the freshwater demand by rainwater? How will immortality impact the city? How do we imagine lighting in the future? How will future migrations affect the cities? How to stop natural disasters? How to decrease atmospheric CO2? How to stop the planet from overheating? How to provide enough renewable energy for the whole world? How can we build a future solely reliant on solar energy? How can we end our waste production? How can we reduce the wealth inequality?
SCENARIOS Bird Planet Timberland Skycities Moving up Urbaniframing Waterlands Immortal(c)ity
Solar City Equaland
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Waterlands in 2200
Solar city in 2200
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Skycity in 2100
Urbanifarming in 2100
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02 Convolution and Liminality: The Entropic Selfs in Impermanence University of Melbourne (M.ARI) Year 1/Semester 2/2019 Studio: Housing Home, and Content(s)
Individual Work Tutors: Colby Vexler and Pricilla Heung
This project is a critical reflection and evaluation of what normalized conceptual relations among selfs and home; home and neighbourhood, publicity and domesticity might mean in the current days. Looking at the domestic realm through a cultural and philosophical lens (Deconstruction of Jacques Derrida), home is defined as a liminal place of self-finding. The housing typology as the shopfront housing on a small-scale main street is selected and located on a designed abstract urban site. Three different moments which depict three crucial stages for self-finding at home (public “I” and private “me”; ever-changing identities and a true undefinable “self”) are speculated and designed.
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min 3.5 mm ground floor to ceiling height
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D-D
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E-E
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Section, Unpacking
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Longing for a home, is to long for a self. Living in a home, is to live through the in-between. Home is a liminal space, where the fixed notion of contemporary identity, categorizations and valueladen hierarchies in subconscious binaries are deconstructed. Home is the collection of a sentimental nostalgia, the romance of one’s own fantasy, the fantasy of not one but many persons-or perceptions of our self. Home is the moment or that phase, when time suspends into a fluid state, that flows out of the limitedness of isolated identities, flowing into the infinite numbers of selfs in any path can lead. On the small-scale main streets in a city center, shopfront housing is the most collective place where the normalized conceptual pairings are pulled apart and become convoluted: subject versus object, inside versus outside, individuality versus collectivity, publicity versus the intimate privacy of domesticity. Although housing typologies are subject to physical material codes and guides, controlled by strict urban planning schemes and infrastructure; home, the malleable actant, eases itself freely on the site through shared architectural or housing elements and suggested traces absent or present. It departs from the urban tissue and then return back to that origin. Here, the metaphysical states of stativity are dismantled; the boundary between normalized conceptual relations: home and street, neighbourhood, and programmatic zoning are dissolved--Hence, here, home becomes a transitional space, celebrating the articulation of multiplicities and the rich self-identities; Here, the meaning lies only on the exploring process of becoming; Here, there is no home nor self can ever be reached, but signifying and substituting traces that inscribed in the deconstructed system of difference and moments of a chain.
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Entry:, Unpacking At this first moment, the notion of a conventional home as an enclosed sanctuary is unpacked on the basis of my first posing. From there, the possibility is offered me of asking again: again about what has been given me from the past, about my primordial belief of home and self. It is a phenomenon of ambiguity and disorienta tion, a threshold of liminality and potentials---the conventional static datum as a ground is dismantled, celebrating incessant and interconnected flows of changes.
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Edge: Inviolable? Self-finding is not always a process of intimacy, but a tracing of dialogue with “me”, others, social institutions and structures. One cannot be aware of his different selfs by merely exposed to one realm. I am riskily costumed as an exhibitionist through large openings along perimeters, exposing, myself to various others. My personal ambivalent sense of self, public identities, others’ perceptions of me and how I see myself from others’ eyes suddenly convoluted and collected.
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Centre: entropic absence and presence ...In this position, the voyeur in the bathroom has become the object of another’s gaze. My self is at a reciprocal transitional stage, a stage of object and subject, of narcissistic self-love as a human and natural actants. It creates subtle interconnections, providing multiple extending entrances to another time and space---when we are getting lost in this ever-changing and convoluted phase, seizing no clear image of our self or home---or maybe there is no such an existence: but an entropic absence and presence, in the impermanence in between.
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03 A u RCADIA University of Melbourne (B.ENV) Year 3/Semester 2/2018 Individual Work Tutor: Matthieu Bégoghina
The design brief is to create a new learning complex, a sports centre and a general admin for University High School, which was located at the intersection of Royal Parade and Story street, Parkville. “AuRCADIA” is a reinterpretation of the word “Arcadia”, which used to describe a poetic shaped space associated with bountiful natural splendour and harmony. My project, similarly, aims to design a
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space which is harmonious with the nature. Moreover, the world “AUR” equals to “OUR”, creating a sense of belonging to the project. Based on the site analysis, talks with the users and learning theory (constructivism), “AuRcadia” is designed to be an environment which stimulates active learning through exploring and discovering, being away from busy and noisy city-life, yet with high interaction with nature.
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STRATEGIES
Framing
Forrest-like landscape
Seatings
Hammock
4. Corridors between old and new school
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Exploration
3. Second floor common are
Underground/on the ground/above ground
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“Danial and Rewards“
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Ground floor plan
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First floor plan
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Second floor plan
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1. Sitting area 2. Changing room 3. Toilets 4. Medical room 5. Fitness Studio/Gym 6. Storage Room 7. Staff office 8. Rest area 9 . Classroom 10. Staff Office 11. Garden area 12. Reception 13. Cafe & Kiosk Parent waiting 14. Cafe kitchen 15. Outdoor sports 16. Students lockers 17. Outdoor seating 18. Bike storage 19. Fire escape 20. Common learning 21. Hammock 22. Small meeting room 23. Staff offices 24. Staff Meeting Room 25. Staff Prep & Storage 26. Parent Meeting Area 27. Cleaners room 28. Staff Prep& storage 29. Senior common room 30. Roof garden
Second B-B
Second A-A
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04 CONSTRUCTION DESIGN University of Melbourne (B.ENV)
Year 2/Semester 1/2018 Construction Individual work Tutors: Aleks Baltovski
This sectional model of Elizabeth Blackburn School of Science (EBSS) detaily examines the construction methodologies, material sciences, design intent and detailing strategies that applied to construct an educational building in real practice. Full sets of architectural and engineering drawings are studied prior to translate the 2D drawings into axonometric and 3D representations. From the foundation to the waterproofing strategies, models are made with a hands-on experience, further enhancing the understanding of the relationships between design intentions and feasibility of the construction.
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1: 20 sectional model
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1. Concrete wall and footings connections 2. Eexterior wall cladding details and brick venear system 3. Roofing and drianage details 4. Roof cladding and waterproofing details
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05 ARCHITECTURE APPLIED TECHNOLOGY University of Melbourne (M.ARC)
Year 1/Semester 1/2019 Construction Group work Tutors: MELISSA MALIK
The project brief requires a design and series of documentations of a skyscraper on a 50 m x 50m square lot in 22 Latrobe street, Melbourne. Our proposed skyscraper translates our design propositions (creating a welcoming gathering space for the general public in Melbourne in a minimal and efficient way) into a practical architectural proposal, presented by series of documentations and models. Economic feasibility, programme-based technical requirements, Assembly of different construction systems, environmental design, building enclosure and materiality, current industry practice and innovation in architectural technology are carefully designed and considered. Key envelope details are divided into three parts (podium, tower and crown). Each one of the members will study one detail in particular (me as podium), developing new details based on a particular set of technical and programmatic requirements while communicating and keeping the design disciplines as a group.
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art installation
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06 MISC Selected Individual Artwork (from 2010-2020) https://issuu.com/suuuuuuuuuuu/ docs/painting_portfolio https://issuu.com/suuuuuuuuuuu/ docs/su_gu_815638_drawing_folio.2
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THANK YOU SU GU 2018-2020