PORTFOLIO Yunzhu Guo
Selection of Academic Works | 2007-2013
To design is to bridge human with the external world. Nearly every human engagement is a response to the external world and this response is no less significant than the effect of the environment on human beings. As there lies an unbreakable relationship between human and their surroundings, I believe that there will always be a bridge where they eventually converge. What follows is an expression of who I am as an individual and an impression of the work I produce.
As I started architecture study at Tongji University, Shanghai, primary training on construction, social investigation and space organization contributed to my former understanding with a professional and systematic perspective. House Building Studio, for instance, shed light on my sense of human scale and material, when I participated in the group project of ten people building a 1:1 room model using solid wood. Then, a research into Shanghai traditional residential-- Shikumen revealed me the mutual influence between human individual and the society as a whole. Moreover, the design of Performance Centre inspired me with the consideration in comprehensive perspective including human needs and environment, based on what we worked out more than five schemes highlighting programmatic diversity and density. Altogether, these basic yet extensive studios fostered my initial interpretation of how architect could redefine the interaction between environment and human thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. To get a broad view of built environment, I chose to further advance my study in Bartlett, UCL in MArch of Urban Design, during which I developed my design skills through a process of ‘research through design’. It takes advantage of architectures’ traditional concerns in spatial experience, construction logics, morphology and physical form, while a broader view compared with architecture due to its connection to disciplines such as urban geography and landscape design. Urban is associated with humanities, culture, science, and the world of business and government. The variety of issues that urban designers have to address forces me to never confine myself to the current knowledge, and meanwhile strengthens my original determination to find the bridge between human and external world in a more complex environment.
I regarded the built environment as a process of inclusion. That means the city is free for intervention, creation and manipulation and only by this way, greater value of buildings and public space especially in social, communal and culture level can be achieved. And I am willing to contribute myself to this exciting process.
EDUCATION
University College London
The Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built Environment,London Candidate for March in Urban Design Sep.2012 - Sep.2013
Tongji University (TJU)
College of Architecture and Urban Planning,Shanghai, China Bachelor of Architecture Sep.2007——Jun.2012 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
YUNZHU GUO
The Bartlett, UCL Master of Architecture in urban design |2013 E: guoyunzhu@hotmail.com M: 07784375380
SOFTWARE Autocad/Revit/Rhinoceros/ G ra s s h o p p e r / S ke tc h- u p / V-ray/Adobe Suit LANGUAGES Native in Mandarin
Fluent in English(IELTS 7.0) Ground-level in Japanese
Lin Tung-yen&Li Guo-hao Consultants, Shanghai, China Intern architect Advisor: Fei Wang
Project participated: 1.Jinan Hanyu Financial CBD -Participated in the urban design process including site analyse 2.principle and circulation research -Detailed Exhibition gallery facade design 2.Commercial Complex Lhasa, Tibet -Material and detail research -Typical plan design Jun. 2012-Sep.2012
Atkins Consultants,Shanghai,China Intern architect Advisor: Dachun Lin , Eddie Cassidy
Project participated: Yilong Bay Resort, Sanya -Coordinator of team members from diverse disciplines, including architecture, planning and landscape -Involved in site analysis, design analysis -Villa conceptual design, drawing, modelling and rendering Sep.2011—Dec.2011
Tongji architectural Design Institute, Shanghai, China Part-time Intern architect Advisor: Fudong Dai(Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering)
Projects participated: 1.Shanghai Nobel Centre(China disabled sports training centre) -Coordinator of site analysis and master plan -Involved in conceptual design period including hand made model and rhino model 2.Zhenjiang Urban Complex -Involved in facade detailed design and apartments plan design -Coordinator of presentation power-point and report booklet Fre.2011—June.2011
CONTENT
01 Against Domestic City Urban Strategy for Athens 02 Continuous Fragments Performance Complex Design 03 From Old To New Folk Museum 04 Link Landscape Design for Zhenru,Shanghai
Against Domestic City Urban Strategy for Athens
One year urban-design studio, Bartlett, UCL 09/2012 - 06/2013 Site: Athens Instructor:Yannis Aesopos, Ross Exo Adams
To approach any city today requires a precise,critical and constrained position, critical both with respect to the material we research, but also to our own methods as urbanist. The studio choose to understand this city through an archaeology of its urbanisation. After the research about ‘public realm’ and ‘public sphere’, the prevailing privatisations-spatial domination,policing and surveillance- of the civic life of Athens has led to the decline of its public space. And polykatoikia, turns out to be the crucial factor in the urbanization process in Athens. In this way, I choose polykatoikia and block as the basic element to intervened in my proposal due to the complex role they played in the city.
In terms of the questions of “what is the urban” and “what is urbanization”. The phenomenon of urbanization and its related problems have their implications not only in Athens, but also in other cities of the Mediterranean. It is essential to begin with a deep understanding about them in the context of human history so that we can open our thought toward a project, or more importantly, release ourself from the traditional problem-solving mode of thinking. Athens in this sense, is a good paradigm with conditions and qualities that reveals these broader issues for our research.
The research started with the term of ‘public’. Since 2008 crisis outburst, planned public space have turned in to symbolic stages of violent acts, and soon been tightly controlled by government. According to Hannah Arendt’s definition of the public, the status of public space in Athens finally turns out to be a crisis of public realm. Tracing back to history, modern Athens originated from Acropolis. The triangular pattern has deeply influenced urban fabric and is taken as a city centre. Around it, the constructions of polykatoikias spread out endlessly, filling up and overcoming the natural constraint of surrounding mountains. More natural land is transformed into urban territory.
And especially due to Antiparochi - a legal but unofficial mechanism which facilitated the construction of polykatoikias on private land by a constructor, in lieu of some apartments to the land owner,there are no designed public spaces in Athens. That is because the essence of Antiparochi is an exchange between land properties and built dwellings, in this way it has being worked as an informal master plan gave priority to private development over the public space, promoted polikatoikia as residents appear in quiet small scales and made them spread all Athens especially in the decades of 1950s and 1960s, transformed Athens into a large metropolis. As a result, there are no mediation between the polykatoikia and the city. By a kind of interlude between the streets, the public space of the city, and the polykatoikia, the private buildings become public elements, blazing their social value beyond the actual buildings. From this angle, Athens can be described as a city without public space, it constructed in a private way and goes through a ‘private urbanization’.
The unique city fabric can be understood deeper after reviewed the history of urban forms, from traditional closed-off to the Swidish punctiform dwelling distribution. The community is not only the spatial relationship, but also begin to take part into the production process of the city. The community is rather than an existing form but an outcome of the city debelopped.In this way, a proper urban form is more related to the city grid and the circulation, which means the community forms are always changing.
In this way, I choose polykatoikia and block as the basic element to intervened in my proposal due to the complex role they played in the city. The privilege of Polykatoikias can be read as both the cause and the effect during Athens urbanization process. On one side, it has met the massive demand of living space, stimulated domestic space expanding infinitely which also caused the lack of public space in Athens afterwards, on the other side, except the spatial consequence , we can also find that the built polykatpikia itself has becomes residue during this process of urbanization as well. My hypothesis can be concluded as a reconfiguration of the urban block, an intervention in the polykatoikia in order to suggest the possibility for a new public within the domestic realm. The main concept is to break through current closed-off block, connecting its interior to the surrounding streets and injecting public programmes throughout. By the insertion of new dwelling part, the roof space also becomes a potential for commonality as the possible interaction between the old and new. The gesture of the wall cutting through the block indicates the public has been permitted into what was formerly the domestic realm, which opens up a new procedure against domestic city. And this is a system that can be repeated in the whole city context, in order to propose a new potential public sphere in Athens.
Strategies
Intervention in urban scale
Conceptual drawing
My proposal started with a series of test of the block typology. And the main concept of this project is to break through current closed-off block, release the abandoned space continued with streets and turned it into public use. What’s more, by the insertion of new dwelling part, the roof space also becomes a potential for commonality as the possible interaction between old and new.
Exploded axonometric
Detailed axonometric
i 1:1000 ground floor plan. ii 1:2000 communal space plan. iii 1:2000 apartment floor plan. iv Section
Gap of the block
Inter-space between existing and added Ground courtyard used by teenagers
ZHENRU URBAN DESIGN
2-Week Competition, 07/2009 Site: Zhenru Shanghai Collaborators: Chen Jingcheng, Zhao Junliang Instructor: Wang Zhijun
In2007,the government proposed the construction of four sub-centres in Shanghai. As the sub 窶田entre of the north west corner, Zhenru intended to improve the quality of public environment by iconic structures . The site is surrounded by housing, schools, office area,historic Zhenru Tower and the Shanghai West Railway Station in construction. The potential users from all these places should be taken account into the design, considering their behaviours and schedules. The design also responds to the spatial node nearby.
Master plan
guardrail
seats
seats
street lamp
Bird-view & Facilities
Concept
By the idea of connection, we designed a Linear Structure in the liner park as a landscape ridge in this area. 1. The Structure includes pedestrian overpass and continuous rising ramp. 2. Pedestrian overpass connects the parks and poured between both sides in vision and function. 3. Continuous rising ramp shows the past and now in Zhenru by landscape sketch.
Construction
Liner structure is consists by the free curve of the pedestrian overpass and the ramp’s broken line, which forming a changing landscape line in three dimensional. 1. The shape of the Pedestrian overpass is a topological deformation by the pool’s curve line which builds a continuous curve with the shape of the pool. 2. Island tilts from the land. The structure forms a continuous rising ramp at the begin of the path by sinking and end up by sightseeing stand after a circle around the island.
road
road grass slope
sculpture
bench
bridge
The sightseeing stand and the sculpture
The relief of the tilted island
The old photos of Zhenru beside the island path
The film frame makes people to enjoy the modern Zhenru
road sunken plaza
grass slope
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users pupil youngster intellectual resident tourist
FOLK MUSEUM
8-Week Three Year Studio 11/2009 - 12/2009 Site: Weihai Road, Shanghai Site Area:1650 ㎥ Instructor: Xu Feng
This site was in the central of Shanghai surrounded by typical housing buildings. In the upheaval of Shanghai development, new constructions and the preservation of old historic building seem mutually exclusive. I attempt to make the museum as the mediator of past and present. After carefully research of the traditional linong buildingsďźŒI intend to reproduce the traditional spatial signature and material detail by modern ways.
Scenario
Shikumen,or literally"stone gate"is a typical style of housing in shanghai,prevalent in the 1920s.As a cultural blend of the elements found in east and west, it originally developed from terrace houses adapted to Chinese conditions. The style once composed 80% of local residences, and bred the spirit of Shanghai's middle class. However, given the city's massive development,Shikumen residences, once so prominent, no longer meet residents' demands. With few exception listed for protection,many have been demolished to make way for new buildings. The site of the museum is right adjacent to the preserved Shikumen blocks located downtown.
Current situation
PRIVATE OLD
NEW PUBLIC
Model
Concept generation
The brick box
The glass box
Full of the site
Patio
Patio in the two boxes
Interpenetration of two boxes
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Spatial analysis
Functional Functionalspace Space
Shikumen（石库门） Shikumen( 石库门 )
Sky-lit Circulation
Sky-lit circulation Longtang( longtang（弄堂） 弄堂 ) Amplified patio
Patio( 天井 )
Floor Plan 1. lounge/ticket 2. cafe 3.classroom 4.auditorium 5.office 6.meeting room 7.dispaly hall 8.exhibition 9.patio 10.lounge 11.view corridor 12.storage Section
steel plateplate steel Heat insulation sheet heat insulation sheet OSB
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rafter 60*90
rafter 60*90
steel plate square timber square Timber steel plate
marble slice
Facade & material
Based on the traditional Shikumen brickwork, I use the same material but make some subtle changes of the way. Concerned the function the building, I use marble slices instead of the brick partly and extrude some of the bricks from the wall, which makes people whenever in the building or out can have a better perception of the faรงade material.
stone
mortar
1:20 Facade detail
Model photo
PERFORMANCE COMPLEX 8-Week Four Year Studio 05/2011 - 10/2011 Site: Hongqiao Road Shanghai Collaborator: Cao Hanxiao, Luo Jing Instructor: Yuan Feng
The site located at the edge of central Shanghai. In 2009, the government decided to stimulate the whole district commercially and culturally. After carefully pre-studies, we intend to respond to the specific programmatic and spatial needs of users. Then, by three systems, we created a regional centre that combines a logical and efficient organization with organic experience, intuitive orientation and exciting spatial relationships.
Shuicheng Road Housing
R=1km
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Shanghai Zoo
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Housing Housing University Park Hotel Gallary Sports Center Hou Hotel School
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Housing
Restaurant
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Golf
Downtown Shanghai
Gubei Road
R=4.5km
University
University Exhibition
using
Park
School
Housing
Housing
Hotel
University
University
Housing
Site Analyse
The site shows great potential in its central location in Changning district and complex public surroundings need analysis aims to distinguish and integrate the diverse function and space needs of users; on-the-spot investigation reveals the constrains of the site;barriers make the site monotonous. Then,systematic and programmatic design are based on the former analysis. By breaking down the barriers and introducing specialized systems,diverse experiences could be possible.
Panorama of site
HONGQIAO ROAD
GUBEI ROAD
ELEVATED HIGHWAY
SITE
PROBLEMS PROBLEMS
SITE
1.Narrow walk, no no street street life life 1.Narrow walk,
2.Heavy 2.Heavy forest, forest, no no access access
Trees alongside the road are not Trees alongside the road are not accessible, blocking the north and south accessible, blocking the north and south sides of the site. sides of the site.
3.Elevated 3.Elevated highway, highway, no no view view
Elevated highway in the south side bock Elevated highway in the south side bock the view of the site, thus lower down its the view of the site, thus lower down its attraction. attraction.
4.Solid 4.Solid buildings, buildings, no no people people
Solid buildings on the west side block Solid buildings on the west side block people from entering the site. people from entering the site.
SOLUTIONS SOLUTIONS
Pedestrians can hardly stop their pace, Pedestrians can hardly stop their pace, making the street lifeless. making the street lifeless.
Strategic Design
Slicing
By slicing the continuous interface, the building can process two different scales. For the city, people can enjoy a complete form, as well as for passengers pass by, it can be sensed as a man's scale, which makes wandering become full of changes.
Flow interweaving
Combine flows taken by different transportation points in order to make this area as city hub by connecting passageways in all directions.
2.unblock east and west
3.interweave south and north
Roof system Semi underground system
1.site
System analysis
Function system
Flow interweaving step
4.optimize the main path
System model Integrate the function semi system and sliced outer roof structure.
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Public space
1:4000 theatre ground floor plan
1:4000 theatre first floor plan
Theatre interior
Theatre section
OTHER WORK
The ancestral hall lies in a beautiful and small village along Nanxi River named Gu Ci. It was built by a renowned family, the Gu family, to commemorate their ancestors. The delicate structure and ornament here is an epitome of Chinese traditional temple. The plan of the building follows the Typical Chinese axis. By the water and plants nearby, the temple enjoys a natural and quiet surrounding with good scenery. The mapping and Drawing of Gu Ci is part of regional research aiming to preserve endangered ancient buildings. Also, it shows to me the grace of Chinese traditional architecture.
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