Liwei Guo- GSAPP Graduation

P O R T F O L I O

Li-wei Guo Columbia University GSAPP / MSAAD

ARCHITECTURE IS RENDERED SOCIETY

Liwei Guo Columbia University GSAPP / MSAAD UNI: lg3149 Email: lg3149@columbia.edu

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FORMAL AND INFORMAL STUDIO

INFORMAL MARKET Phu Hoang:2020 Fall Studio

EVERYTHING MUST SCALE STUDIO HETEROTOPIC TRANSIT Micheal Bell: 2021 Spring Studio

THE LEAST WE CAN DO STUDIO

PLANTING LAB Emmett Zeifman : 2021 Summer Studio

GENERATIVE DESIGN

GENERATIVE DESIGN GSAPP Electives

URBAN MICRO-CLIMATE RESPONSIVE PANEL RETHINGING BIM GSAPP Electives

QINGPU PINGHE BIBLIOTHEATER SEMINAR OF SECTION GSAPP Electives

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INFORMAL MARKET FORMAL AND INFORMAL STUDIO

Phu Hoang:Fall 2020 Studio Columbia University GSAPP Team: En-Ho Chan, Liwei Guo, Eleanor Liu Site: Flushing,Queen 2020.9-2020.12

This program tends to help chinese immigrants to face the potential climate crisis in 2100. Many of them sell food by vendors and markets.When sea level rise due to carbon emission, they are hard to keep their business. When looking at the small business, we focus on the unique food supply chain system in Chinatown that is different from others in NewYork city. The wholesalers sell to each produce market in Chinatown neighborhood. We are trying to help them and their children to maintain their livelihood by creating a mixed-use produce market and community center; and to reduce the carbon footprint by cutting the long distance airline from Miami and create a railway system by transporting vegetables to our program.

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INFORMAL MARKET

INFORMALITY IS TRESPASSING PROJECT 1

INFORMALITY IS TRESPASSING

Space and capital are two interdependent components underpinned the metropolis’ conundrum concerning foray against public space by private entities. In Guangzhou, where regulation remains vague, merchants with limited economic power take promoting business through expanding private space to the sidewalk for granted.Whereas the regulatory climate in the states leaves small business owners in Flushing without proper instruments to facilitate social bonds, forcing them to seek exposure by communicating with the public through a plethora of accessory signs, trespassing the virtual boundary of public space.

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Accessory sign in Flushing

Sidewalk in Guangzhou

Accessory sign, therefore, is an abstracted notion of the tapestry of activities prolonged from the sidewalk in Guangzhou.Accessory sign and sidewalk business are both antitypological not only for their detachment from institutional rein but also for the symbiosis developed in the absence of a top-down, rigid framework that is deemed as the cornerstone of the modern economic system.

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INFORMAL MARKET

HETEROGENEOUS TRANSIT PROJECT 2

As the sea level rising in 2100, some urban road transportation will be cut down. But the current railway system in New york city will be affected less. Facing the potential climate crisis, we are working on designing a community center transit to reconnect the food supply chain, supporting Chinese immigrants with their business and life. We hope to replace the long-distance food source from Miami with new transportation, which will reconnect urban and regional community gardens and greenhouses through railways to form a food supply network.

Chinese Immigrants & Food Supply Chain

We start our program with designing heterogeneous conveyor system which is the anti-type in our program. Compared with general staircase and circulation, our informal convey system could be regarded as a combination of function and transportation.

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INFORMAL MARKET

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We were looking at three perspectives of informal urbanism- Hacking,Non-Binary and Trespassing.

We have extracted three behavioral fragments from Project1, focusing on the characteristics of Street vendor, Food Cart and Signage.

To support more chinese immigrants in Queens, our Site is located in downtown Flushing which is the most concentrated area of local business with various Chinese snack shops, retail wholesaler, and food carts on the sidewalk.In order to connect our program with the railway network, we will take an old restaurant next to the railway on the 40th street.

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Green House System Bas

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Greenhouses will be created on the top of industrial buildings, factories and shopping malls like auto repair and Macy’s that are next to the and regional community gardens and greenhouse

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railway and our building will distribute cheap cooked food to the other immigrant communities. Green House System will reconnect urban es through railways to form a food supply network.

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INFORMAL MARKET

Daytime

The solid part is made of Polycarbonate envelope with internal CLT panel, while the void part is made of glass with steel structure. In the daytime, the chair and table will be stored away. The food carts will show on the building facade to attract consumers on the street, this activities can be served as a dynamic signage.

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Night

At night, the signage will be lit up. The faint light will come through the transparent material, and the study. Room in the box will provide a small and independent space for language learners.

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INFORMAL MARKET

Conveyor of Books and Foods

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Foods Conveyor Food conveyor system connects with railway and urban road transportation for food resources loading. The goods from outside of the building will be transported to storage through the food conveyor. For food consumption, the conveyor connects different rooms like cinema, library, language school in the building with food carts and food transportation bents.

Books Conveyor Book conveyor system connects the library, language school, and restaurant on different levels through conveyor and book cart. The horizontal book transportation bent in conveyor will also combine with bookshelves where users can choose what they want to read.

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Different types of functions are expressed in different colors, and their functions are permeable to each other. This means that you can not o you can put the book in the conveyor

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only read books in the fixed library on one floor, you can pick up a book on any floor and read it, and buy fried rice in the Food cart nearby, r, it will go back to the library by itself.

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INFORMAL MARKET

Section Perspective The section of the building highlights the vertical space of the building, containing a small multifunctional hall and atrium.

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INFORMAL MARKET

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Vendor Hall

The perspective drawings show how the shuffled column used in interior space .

Book Corner

The shuffled column grid will provide signages on the facade several anchor points in different directions.

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INFORMAL MARKET

LOADING

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Book Loading

Book Consumption

Food Loading

Food Consumption

CONSUMPTION

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HETEROTOPIC TRANSIT EVERYTHING MUST SCALE STUDIO

Micheal Bell: Fall 2020 Studio Columbia University GSAPP Individual Work Site: Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, Nevada 2021.1-2021.4

In order to increase consumption of batteries, some truck stops are expected to be a Transit that connects renewable energy consumption and battery manufacturing.

Electric trucks will be a part of factories.I started my project with designing a trailer which is a potential part integrated with automatic factories. The trailer will participate in Re-use of batteries, so it can be a movable battery recycling point collecting exhausted batteries and bringing them to the factory. Robotic trailer logistic systems will liberate labors from loading and reloading. The trailer will also become a batteries warehouse where recycled batteries charge. The solar and wind will generate electricity to charge the products and truck. My truck stops are connected with factories, and truck drivers and workers in factories can interact with each other in my building simultaneously, occupying this heterotopic space or heterotopia which is mentioned by Michel Foucault.

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HETEROTOPIC TRANSIT

Impression Of Truck Stop& Fueling Station

FUELING STATION

MOTEL

FAST FOOD RESTURAUNTS

RETAIL

Truck Stop ? Heterotopia !

Based on Michel Foucult’s great concept of Heterotopia, Heterotopic spaces have power to juxtapose several real places and explacement simultaneously. New truck stop will be a heterotopic space which is a combination of highway, automatic factory, electric vehicles, people with different cultural backgrounds and renewable energy stations. This transit will be separated into 3 layers, vehicles, robots and humans. The space on the factory for humans not only will be a truck stop, but will be a cluster with restaurants, motel, office building and roof garden. Motels and showers in a modern truck stop will change as well. Discarded trailer will be transformed into rooms like hotel rooms and showers, In this heterotopic space, new activities will be brought in old devices. Restaurants and retails connects with recharging piles provide open space for people with different cultural backgrounds. Compared with a normal truckstop with separated service stream lines, my design encourages visitors to interact with others in the restaurant.

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Site Anaylsis

My truck stops are connected with factories, and truck drivers and workers in factories can interact with each other in my building simultaneously, occupying this heterotopic space or heterotopia which is mentioned by Michel Foucault. So I would like to choose Gigafactory in THRO as my site.

My truck stop is planned to connect Gigafactory with battery production and recycling network on the parking lot in front of the gigafactory.

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HETEROTOPIC TRANSIT

Truss as Skylighting

Truss as Skylighting

Truss as Skylighting

Truss as Skylighting

Truss as Skylighting

Truss as Skylighting

Some part of the truss will not cover with solar panels, allowing sunlight to light the space under the truss. And the slope in the truss will provide a good place for a mini cinema and mini library where truck drivers can take a break. The trailer conveyor will be a heterogeneous art gallery, the migration of machine-like performance shows the beauty of the machine. The Elevator will also become a food conveyor, which delivers the foods and snacks vertically.

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Vehicle Perspective

Dinning Table with Food Conveyor

Truss as Skylighting

Some part of the truss will not cover with solar panels, allowing sunlight to light the space under the truss. And the slope in the truss will provide a good place for a mini cinema and mini library where truck drivers can take a break. The trailer conveyor will be a heterogeneous art gallery, the migration of machine-like performance shows the beauty of the machine. The Elevator will also become a food conveyor, which delivers the foods and snacks vertically.

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HETEROTOPIC TRANSIT

HETEROTOPIC TRANSIT

The truck stop tends to save more resources by materials recycling and structure optimization.

CLT is an ideal material for building an environmentally friendly truck stop. Sustainably managed forests convert CO2 into biomass through the process of photosynthesis. CLT contains biomass and its panels and any other individual elements are recyclable, they are able to be sent back to the manufacturer for reuse and recycling. To minimize the weight and volume of structure by generative design, the mechanical system will be optimized. Maintain the stability of the structure with less materials, saving more resources by calculation.

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Section shows spatial relationship between vehicle, convery, factory and human. The truss on the top serves as a heterotopic truck stop, con interact with drivers in my building. The elevators connect truss and kitchen, bringing the foods and people at

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nnecting Gigafactory with wooden structure. This part also provides some additional office room for staff in the factory, encouraging them to t different speeds. People can order what they want by cell phone, getting their food through a food conveyor.

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PLANTING LAB THE LEAST WE CAN DO STUDIO

Emmett Zeifman:Summer 2021 Studio Columbia University GSAPP Team:Liwei Guo, Eleanor Liu, Zhongwei Wang Site: West Windsor, New Jersey 2021.6-2020.8

Education motivates our design. The private schools are dominating the Werst Windsor, that’s probably because Princeton University is there, but the absence of public schools is still obvious. Based on all the data we have, we believe that there is a need for a community college that not only promotes education but also helps with bridging the gap. Considering the average education level in the region is still higher than others. we think that having a graduate school is also reasonable. Therefore the community college and the professional climate school would be our focus. To better serve its community, the school we believe should also provide another pathway to achieve the goal of education. So, here people can also receive skill training and become climate technicians. Therefore our school will have two main parts which are climate community center and climate school. The Planting lab is expected to serve climate school and the community. A natural and public friendly space shared by the community. This design’s goal is shafting from constructing the social to facilitating socialites. This is the least we can do.

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CLIMATE SCHOOL DESIGN PROJECT 1

Regional Transportation Infrastructure

Our site is connected to NY and Philadelphia with NJ transit. It is easy to get to the site by train in 1 hour from NY and Philadelphia. And the train also connects to Princeton. People in the vicinity of Princeton Junction mainly rely on cars. In the future, we envisage that public transport will reduce reliance on Car Usage. At the same time, the existing organizations in New Jersey will encourage the spread of clean energy, and transportation will be electrified. We hope our site will be a Bike and Pedestrian Friendly Community in 2035.

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Site Research

Around our site, there are many good public schools in New Jersey. Asian students account for 70%. The tuition fees of the schools are also more than 12thousand dollars per year. So we speculate the main families in the neighborhood are middle class Asians. This mapping shows education segergation. It can be seen that the red point is Asian and the blue point is white.This is a speclative vision in 2035. We believe that the Asian community will still be the main group in this region, but we hope that some school-centered cluster can present diversity in the future.

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Transportation Infrastructure Study

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Bike Lanes 2021

Bike Lanes 2035

Public Transportation 2021

Public Transportation 2035

Car Road and Parking 2021

Car Road and Parking 2035

More bike lanes will connect the landscape in 2035. According to predict flooded map, the water level will rise in 2035. We expect to expand the range of parks, connecting the lake and ditch, and transform a part of parking lots into a wetland park. The bicycle and pedestrian systems will bring students to the nature, helping them with their mental health. The Context of Community will change in 2035. People gonna move closer to school district, around school, more dense housing will be built. This sustainable housing area with farms will change the traditional sense of suburban housing land ownership. There will be more electrified public transportation in this community to challenge the car-centric community in west Windsor. With the development of Ev cars, the gas station will be replaced by parking lots with charging piles. Because of more sharing bike program and public transportation, the footprint of parking lots will decrease in the future.

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Transportation In

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This is a collective oblique masterplan of the climate school. All of the existing building will be reused for different purposes. College and lib also for research. The Material recycling labs will serve the community and school.

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brary with a big auditorium provide students place to study. The Planting lab with the next to the wetland park not only serve education but Museum and community center provides exhibition and day care for local people.

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Expected Satellite Image in 2035

This is a collective satellite image of our climate school. Lake in our site will connect ditch and pond, becoming a wetland park. Bike and pedestrian system connects community and landscape, you can get to the wetland park from Princeton Junction through this wooden trail. A part of the old residential area and parking lots will be covered by forest. Our climate school will become a forest.

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PLANTING LAB DESIGN PROJECT 2

Program Diagram

Gardening is a big part of our program, helping the students and locals relieve their pressure and broaden their horizons. We will re-use existing buildings as classrooms, planting labs, and mental health centers for local students. For locals people, our program can be a community center where they can get knowledge sharing and cultural exchange.This collective diagram shows the relationship between our climate school and the township. Public transportation connects our site with West Windsor, and bike and pedestrian routes link programs in this climate school. You can see a high-resolution picture on the miro board.

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Gird Plan

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Section of Landscape

Ground Floor Plan

Lab Floor Plan

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In the axon, we can see more clearly that the original structure system was retained and the structure of the first floor was removed. The communicate the boundary betw

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e elevated floor was used as laboratories independently. The landscape ramps can be connected with the waterfront walkway system to ween indoor and outdoor space.

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Interior Rendered View 1

Interior Rendered View 2

Interior Rendered View 3

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Sectional Perspective from main entrance. Public Planting core providing a Lab Planting showcase on every level, has not been c

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closed, semi outdoor space. Private core provide lounge and seating on every level. Top with solar panel and mechanical space.

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Exterior Rendered View 1 Transparent core and elevated ramp system provide the landscape space on the first floor. The walkway system is pedestrian - and bike-friendly, allowing people to enjoy the wetlands along the shore.

Exterior Rendered View 2 The light and transparent laboratory contrasts with the solid and stable core. Rich layers of wetland environment can become the habitat of some birds, enabling natural creatures and human beings to coexist in harmony.

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Renovation Strategy

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CONTROLLED SHELL

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GENERATIVE DESIGN GSAPP Generative Design Course / 2020 Fall Instructor: Danil Nagy Team: Liwei Guo, Wan-Hsuan Kung, Nanjia Jiang, Tianheng Xu, Chen Yang Site: Venice Essay Website Link: https://medium.com/generative-design-course/introduction-d28a5ea9414

This project involves a two-stage optimization process for a compression shell structure that is situated within the exhibition venue of Venice Biennale. The goal of this project is to design a compression shell structure that is generated based on both perceived obstacles (boundaries, columns, and exhibits) and projected constraints (circulation), to articulate a bespoken spatial experience aligned with site conditions. The structure of a compression shell reaches optimum efficiency when it consists of catenary arches. Coupling simulator Kangaroo with Discover, this project takes place on complex site conditions, allowing visitor circulation and existing obstacles to be the driving factors that define the synclastic shell structure.Circulation simulation, which initially specifies the site constraints and visiting experiences as input data, will be also implemented during the optimization process. By quantitatively showing the performance of spatial occupancy and streamline, this visual pedestrian simulation joins into the optimization iteration process along with structural simulation. And we are looking for some interoperable strategies between these evaluation criteria that could be generated in next steps.

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1. The chosen exhibition hall.

2. Subdivide the space.

3. Take away the hot zone space.

4. Take away the space that artwork occupy.

5. Take away the space which is too small and fragmented.

6. Split space into several pieces.

7. Take away the spaces that do not satisfy the ration of occupation in 6.

8. Add the given shell outline .

9. The remain is the selected cold zone with more openings.

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CONTROLLED SHELL

CONTROLLED SHELL

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URBAN MICRO-CLIMATE RESPONSIVE PANEL

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RETHINKING BIM GSAPP Rethinking BIM Course / 2020 Fall Instructor: Danil Nagy Team: Liwei Guo, Sun Ruijing Site: Singapore

This project involves a two-stage optimization process for a compression shell structure that is situated within the exhibition venue of Venice Biennale. The goal of this project is to design a compression shell structure that is generated based on both perceived obstacles (boundaries, columns, and exhibits) and projected constraints (circulation), to articulate a bespoken spatial experience aligned with site conditions. The structure of a compression shell reaches optimum efficiency when it consists of catenary arches. Coupling simulator Kangaroo with Discover, this project takes place on complex site conditions, allowing visitor circulation and existing obstacles to be the driving factors that define the synclastic shell structure.Circulation simulation, which initially specifies the site constraints and visiting experiences as input data, will be also implemented during the optimization process. By quantitatively showing the performance of spatial occupancy and streamline, this visual pedestrian simulation joins into the optimization iteration process along with structural simulation. And we are looking for some interoperable strategies between these evaluation criteria that could be generated in next steps.

Urban Micro-climate Responsive Panel System Design Work Flow

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URBAN MICRO-CLIMATE RESPONSIVE PANEL

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QINGPU PINGHE BIBLIOTHEATER SEMINAR OF SECTION GSAPP Seminar of Section Course / 2021 Spring Instructor: Marc Tsurumaki Individual Work Site: Shanghai, China

Incline + Hole + Shape

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Located in Qingpu Pinghe International school, this building encompasses a Library, reading area, a black box theater, cafe, office rooms, and a two-hundred-seat performance space. Slanted roof and diagonal wall cut the volumes, producing the blue-whale-shape of the building.

Circular windows and skylight are registered on the facade and roof supported by a truss system, providing a good lighting condition for the central reading area. A loop of different reading spaces rises and drops according to the varying heights of the theater volumes below, creating a terraced spatial reading area that is surrounded by books and light.theater and the black box, which require the least natural light and the most acoustic isolation, occupy the lower part and the deep central area of the building.This section combines the spatial and optical effects of inclined section with holed section.

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