selected works architecture & art yuqiao guo
Education Harvard Graduate School of Design Cambridge, MA
Yuqiao Guo yguo@gsd.harvard.edu (857)997-4513
Pomona College Claremont, CA
Master in Architecture I, Candidate Toyo Ito Studio, Fall 2017
2019
Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Analysis
2015
Architecture Intern
winter 2017 summer 2018
Experience Atelier DL Beijing, China
- in charge of a Winter Olympics village renovation masterplanning project, produced whole set of document from intial analysis and overall planning to architectural design drawings - participated in the Maldives New Island Development competition, in charge of Grasshopper script and drawing site plans - drafted construction documents for a boutique hotel project
Architecture Intern
spring 2018
Dali, Yunnan, China
- drafted construction documents for Manjiang Hotel project, helped build final model using Grasshopper -led a design team in the schematic phase of Fuxianhu project
Design Discovery
Administrative Intern
summer 2017
Architecture Intern
summer 2016
Woodshop Technical Assistant
2015 - now
Office Intern
fall 2014
Landscape Architecture Intern
summer 2013
Zhaoyang Architects
Cambridge, MA
Akihisa Hirata Architecture Office Tokyo, Japan
Fabrication Lab, Harvard GSD Cambridge, MA
China Construction Engineering Co. Beijing, China
Park Pride Atlanta, GA
- assisted the director with administrative and logistical planning - designed and helped produce graphic materials for the program - helped organize training sessions - assisted in the final phase of Ota Museum and Library project - participated in a number of competition projects - crafted detailed models - oversee proper and safe usage of woodshop machines and tools - provide technical guidance, perform maintenance tasks - participated in the design development phase of Dar es Salaam International Trade Center project - participated in the conceptural design and development for two community park projects - led graphic design and content representation
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Table of Contents Lost & Found Archive
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Animating Urban Ground
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Light Series
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Boston Millenial Club
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Skyward Monolith
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Approaching Omishima
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Perimeter Plan
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Double-spiral Ascension
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Career Discovery Work
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Atelier DL Work
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Art
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Lost and Found
An Archive and Museum for Found Objects Studio: Utopia/Dystopia: Living Post-Work Instructor: Annabelle Selldorf Option Studio | Fall 2018 | Harvard GSD By 2048, the overflow of commodities and information, enabled by technology and mass production/digitization, operate under the disguise of being highly customized and permanently preserved. In reality, however, things, our relationship with things, and our experience of things, become increasingly homogenous and generic: they cannot really be “lost�, and thus escape our touch and our memories. In an effort to save the lost connections with objects that were once held dear, a group of private collectors purchased a lot in the then economically declining Framingham and established an archival space. Throughout the years, the space gradually expanded into a public institution, a joint archive-museum, where found objects are collected, categorized, and archived. In the meantime, it maintains the civic function of receiving and returning found objects within the greater Boston area. The architecture is a collection of spaces, each of which elaborates a particular relationship with the objects housed within and amplifies certain qualities out of them. The architectural circulation would unfold into personal narratives and impressions. The complex could be experienced linearly, in parallel, or in clusters. Each space could be directly accessed, while the intertwining of passageways nevertheless announces the passing of another. Apertures and open spaces not only give the space its tempo, but also folds the architecture into a volume that is nostalgic of itself, that invites one to look back at where one begins the journey, or to catch a glimpse of a space one already experienced, in a different light. The museum/archive contains the melancholy of objects lost, the history and memories they embody; it also cultivates the journey of getting lost, tracing one’s own footsteps, and finding oneself again.
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volumetric study model
conceptual section model
unfolded conceptual section
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corridor
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Animating Urban Ground
An Analogy of New Domesticity Instructor: Mariana IbaĂąez Core IV Studio | Spring 2017 | Harvard GSD Collaboration with David Solomon
Aldo Rossi’s La Città Analoga tells the tale of a city through imagerial allegories. Suspended, fragmented, and collided in a static realm, elements nevertheless allude to time, history, and memories of a place. The prompt challenges us to envision a future domestic pattern in Boston. Instead of prescribing an idealized mode of operation, we speculate an animated urban ground where multiple narratives co-exist, durations overlap, forces clash, incidents reenact, and scales interchange. Through such cacophony of elements emerges a clear allegory of urban ground, where historical remnants at times inundate modern scenes, urban grids reform and reorganize around temporal functions, domestic spills out into the public, quotidian procedures assume fleeting theatricality. Here we propose a way to read and imagine a city which, through its ambiguity and multiplicity, offers ground for the congregation of eccentricities and morphing relationships. It is an inherently political ground, hinting at the future of democracy.
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Collage Animation In an animated collage of historical and existing urban elements, we overlap various scales, register durations non-linearly, inverse figures and ground, and turn flat surface into space. From this process, curious and improbable organizations emerge.
Urban Element Collage Diagram Extracting from the existing urban fabric, we collage the abstracted elements in a series of studies to understand their relationship, definition of boundary, interchangeability, and generate a repertoire of compositions.
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site plan
exploded axonometrics
grid site model
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typical floor plan
section
mid-rise apartments
Site Section
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section, ‘plug-in’ superblock
large unit plan
small unit plan
view of semi-interior communal space
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Forward Motion Reverse Voyeurism
Instructor: Robert Pietrusko Mapping: Geographic Representation and Speculation | Spring 2017 | Harvard GSD Collaboration with Yue Shao
From Light Vases, Flowers Spill
from light vases, flowers spill.
Instructor: Mitsuhiro Kanada Tectonic Tradition in Japan | Fall 2017 | Tokyo University of Arts
yuqiao guo 2017, tokyo
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Boston Millenial Club the Faceted Fishing Pond
Instructor: Jeffry Burchard Core II Studio | Spring 2016 | Harvard GSD
The Millenial Club, situated in the core of Boston downtown, is a reflection on the lifestyle of young people in the city. The architecture fragments and mixes social programs such as a fishing pond, a ballroom, and private screening, into a highly charged sequence. It also frames the act of millenials taking over physical space in the city by positioning the building itself as a faceted, gem-like statement, making a critique of the gentrification of a historically working class neighborhood.
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Skyward Monolith
Desert Monument as Contemporary Doha Skyscraper Instructor: John May Core III Studio | Fall 2016 | Harvard GSD
+204’ typical hotel floor
Studio
+108’ typical hotel floor
Garden/Cafe
Terrace
+92’ sky garden & cafe Special Exhibition Gallery
Equipment
Auditorium Business
+52’ auditorium & business
+18’ courtyard & gallery
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+410’ Therapy Pool
+332’ Hotel/Studio
+306’ Diving +294’ Fitness
+222’ Hotel/Studio +210’ Garden/Cafe
+186’ Theater
+102’ Hotel/Studio +90’ Garden/Cafe
+54’ Conference
+36’ Gallery
-18’ Lap Pool
-36’ Mechanical
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Approaching Omishima Instructors: Toyo Ito & Jun Yanagisawa Fall 2017 | Harvard GSD & Toyo Ito Associates Collaboration with Foteini Bouliari and Jungwoo Lee
Located in the Seto Inland Sea, Omishima belongs to an archipelago of scenic isles, and is home to Oyamazumi Shrine, one of the most sacred religious sites in Japan. The tale of Omishima is condensed onto the pilgrim approach to the shrine, which witnessed the centuries of prosperity and glory, but nowadays experiences rapid abandonment and decline. Focusing on the pilgram path, we muse upon a new rural narrative that connects the island’s history to the future, invites outsiders to rediscover the island under a new context, and preserves the nostalgia of a forgotten fantasy. Based on in-depth research of Omishima’s thirteen distinct villages, and current condition of the approach, we propose the transformation of the approach into a miniature reflection of Omishima, repurposing abandoned structures as museums and event spaces for each village, as well as re-vitalizing the open space as clusters themed around agriculture, culture, and crafts, to celebrate and sustain island tradition. vehicular traffic
vacant lot houses
shrine approach cyclists’ path parking lot bus stop
大三島 Omishima
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amphitheater
mural workshop
weekly island crafts market
orange grove
Crafts
agriculture cluster entrance
boat making workshop
Culture
Agriculture
meeting space for the local agricultural association
residence and open gallery for urban and local artists
workshop for craftsmen
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井口 Inokuchi
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瀬戸 Seto
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甘崎 Amazaki
Renovation proposals for the Agriculture Cluster and its four village museums. Activating the ground with agricultural activities and programs, we seek to engage locals and visitors in understanding the history, and participating in the future of Omishima’s farming tradition.
口総
Kuchisubo
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Perimeter Plan
Wrapping Student Dormitory Instructor: Megan Panzano Core I Studio | Fall 2015 | Harvard GSD The project resolves the tension between a continuous enveloping facade and interior circulation logic, by allowing the architecture’s boundary to drive spatial formation. The student dormitory has an energetic formation unified under a consistent tempo, which also correspondes with a diversity of internal plan typologies.
ground floor plan
2nd floor
section A-A
3rd floor
section B-B
4th floor
5th floor
section C-C
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Double-spiral Ascension Instructor: Andrew Witt Digital Media II | Fall 2016 | Harvard GSD Collaboration with Peiying Ban
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Sort original geometry, extract stairs from walls by culling surfaces with zero z-axis normal.
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Divide original curve at one-third point, extrude curve segment, select surface edges of staircases and find mid-points, run curve closest point and determine if distance between curve and staircase is zero.
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Extend selected staircases to the new boundary set by step 2, project to c-plane to get floor plate.
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Copy floor plate vertically, offset original curve inward and trim the upper floor plate.
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Extend edges of walls toward an offset boundary.
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Trim off floor plates with the extended walls.
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Residence for Two Interwoven Domesticity
Instructor: Francisco QuiĂąones Career Discovery | 2014 | Harvard GSD
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Long Room Tall Room Interwoven Domesticity
Instructor: Francisco QuiĂąones Career Discovery | 2014 | Harvard GSD
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Maldives New Island Development
14m
12m
Internship Atelier DL | winter 2017 | Beijing, China Project Type: Competition Participation: participated in Concept Design, wrote Grasshopper script for building structure, helped prepare 3D file for rendering, drew site plan and first floor plan.
商业购物中心
空港企业服务中心 4632m²
国际贸易中心
商务旅游配套
1935m²
2940m²
商业购物中心 4565m²
会展中心 1227m²
会议交流
交通枢纽
2106m²
852m²
60°
14m
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60°
10m
25m
50m
10 12F 45m
8 5F 20m
6 12F 45m
7 11F 40m
9 8F 34m
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7F 31m
1 5F 20m
3 66m
5 5F 22m
10m
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50m
规划用地面积:58368㎡ 建筑基地总面积:49109㎡ 首层总面积:25150㎡ 建筑总面积:101468㎡ 综合建筑密度:51.2％ 容积率:2.07 1. 会议会展和交流中心 2. 文化广场 3. 观景塔 4. 商业购物中心 5. 交通枢纽 6. 中高档商务旅游配套 7. 国际贸易中心 8. 空中花园 9. 商业购物中心 10. 空港企业服务中心
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2020 Winter Olympics Village Masterplan Internship Atelier DL | winter 2017 | Beijing, China Project Type: Commission Participation: in charge of the Concept Design and Schematic Design phases, conducted site analysis, proposed site strategies, designed four buildings with drawings.
文化中心 ／ 图书馆
民宿 餐厅
葡萄种植 P
民宿
民宿 接待 中心
食堂
民宿
P 酒店 澡堂 民宿 P 艺术
戏水 溜冰
民宿
画廊 民宿 婚礼
森林
婚礼场地
酒店
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Artwork multi-media
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