Kailin Guo-Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN WORKS

Ka i lin Guo 2017 TO 2022

PORT FOLIO

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CONTENTS

City Within

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Modern Villa

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Gateway Junction

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Com-Bonding

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Moon River

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Midst of Wood

Firefly

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Playground

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CITY WITHIN

Multi-media School and Innovative Learning Urban Grid and Infill at Atlanta, GA

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Urban Fabric The project focuses on emphasizes on the existing urban context to engage with the urban fabric o create a city within the city.

Regulating lines from both park and surround-ing buildings form a integrated systems that allows pedestrians to interact with the building from all directions.

Exchanging Ideas The form of art is unlimited. The media school encounters both traditional and new art forms and teaching methods. With various ideas even arguments, the project creates spaces that encourage student to communicate celebrate the difference and learn from each others.

Student Engagement One of the strategies is to switch programs across floors between the old and the new.

The shift allows students to have more opportunities to enagage with other students who have different majors, which could spark meaningful conversations that celebrate the diversity of humanity and art.

Activity Connection The buidling is vertically connected in various locations, especially across major activities. When activities overlaps each other, open or double height spaces are created, allowing thresholds and communications between levels. The space also promotes better ventilation and light coming into the building.

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN

UPPER FLOOR PLAN

TRANSVERSE SECTION PERSPECTIVE

LONGITUDINAL SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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MODERN VILLA

Marc Steel Factory Redesign Adoptive and Reuse Design at Birmingham, AL

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The major idea of this project is defining spa es by the density of the movement. The community park in front of the marc steel building is formed into three spaces. The northern one has a connection to the residential ommunity. Therefore, it has the most shading and sitting sp e. The one in the center is designed as a fun entrance for people to experience elevation chan es as they enter the building. The one on the south side is designed to create the edge condition and a g thering space for the community. The square module and the tree are placed on a 4 by 4 grid to provide

elevation chan es and sitting e es. The module along the residential building eaches into the garden space between every 5 units. Trees are planted on the stairs to divide public and private space.

For the facade of the building, it follows the same 4 by 4 grid which is broken by entrance and windows. The usage of the material is simple; concrete, glass, and metal are the palette or this project. The concrete and steel are also used as a decorati e element to emphasize apertures and to add more interesting p tterns as the building a e.

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

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Workshop

Courtyard

Residential Building

Stepping Park

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GATEWAY JUNCTION

Multi-function Gateway Building Campus Redesign and Replan at Auburn University, AL

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Parking

Visitor Center & Offices

Human Science

Cosam & offices

Agriculture

PEDESTRIAN FLOW

SYSTEMETIC & SITE DIAGRAM

GREEN CONNECTION

Main Traffic Flow Transit Flow Comer Hall Views of Comer

VEHICULAR FLOW

15 Activity Engagement The new master plan created mutiple di ect acesses to South College street, allowing bette engagement with the city. The open space has a oriantation owards the campus to provide privacy and engage with camps activities

Vertical Connection The vertical onnection mainl locates at the main street leading to campus. Entrance and core of each wing exists to form the gateway. As well as the brige, allowing to create double height threshold leading to the main campus.

Felixble Space Academic programs mainly locates along the street edge. The double-height felixble space orient towards the courtyard to have interactions with acitivities

East Facade The design of east facade reflects the elixible space of each wing. The transparency of the glass curtain walls allow pedestrians to have visual connection with activities h pening on the ground floo .

West Facade The design of west facade reflects academic programs. The usage of glass focuses on the public ground floo to engage with the street.

The brige connects both wings is transparent to allow ongoing view towards campus. Brick as a material of the solid facade blocks noises from the street.

SITE PLAN PROPOSAL

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

Laboratory Office Service core Classroom Double height space

UPPER FLOOR PLAN DIAGRAMS

Fire stair

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COM-BONDING

Community Bonding Through Shared Space Adopti e and Reuse Design at Birmingham, AL

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Public Shared Space

Connection With the Park

Residential Shared Space

Vertical Connection

ConnectionThe shared space is created by substracting the connor where streets meet to activate the street as well as creating more opportunity for people to engage.

The substraction of the residential building is used to form the outpost in the park. To contin-ue with the regulating line, it creates dialogue between exterior spaces.

On the residential level, every floor has a shared balcony on the edge, and they all share the liberary located in the center.

In each unit, the kitchen is placed in the middle to reinforce connection between people.

The building is connected vertically through the liberary as well as the balcony that steps down on each level to form a since of a community as whole.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SOUTHTOWN

FIVE POINT 1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2010s

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF BIRMINGHAM

UPPER FLOOR PLAN

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MOON RIVER

Innovati e and Creati e Resturant Adopti e and Reuse Project at Opelika, AL

LONGITUDINAL SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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Textile and Sculptural

Totality and Contrast

View and Light Control

The form of the design is inspired by the history of Opelika which was heavily involved with the textile industry. Two parallel curve lines could be seen as continuous rivers represent the historical-cultural aspects of Opelika and the reborn and changes that are happening now. Sculptural cylinder booths interrupt the form to create a natural flow of the circulation.

The bar, as the main concept of this design, focuses on the totality of the form which folds around to become the sterotonic concrete wall that leads to the second floor. On the other side, the wall is made of steel and glass to contrast the massiveness of the concrete wall as well as letting light in and drawing attention to the kitchen.

The cylinder booth is made with thin concrete that goes all the to the ceiling to achieve privacy but having one and a half feet gap to allow light in. The light fixture is also designed to create an intimate setting. It is the reflective view of the table that drops down to space which encourages customers to enjoy the moment and each other’s company.

The Art of Cooking & Light The open plan kitchen locates in the center-back of the restaurant. To emphasize, the importance of cooking, the skylight that goes down to the kitchen is creating a double-height space for ventilation as well as bring light in. The second floor is also designed around the kitchen so that costumers can look down and enjoy the art and the process of cooking.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

25 SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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SITE PLAN

FRONT FACADE

TRANSVERSE SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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IN THE MIDST OF WOODS

The Landscape Aesthetics of Pavilion Wood Competition at Auburn University, AL

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Intereacting

Supporting

Engaging

Green Connection & Sound

Activities in different ranges cross-interact with each other in the midst of woods.

Walls are the sterotonic element which structures of the roof to reduce any use of columns.

Walls are used to seperating traffic and space as well as hang art to engage pedestrians.

Trees are placed around center of events and resting areas to help people engross the peace nature has to offer.

The major intention of the design is to creat spaces for cultrural acti ities to happen without the influn e of the traffic The position of the woodden walls are followed by the regulating lines of the road which a ects pedestrian perspec vely from different directions. The wooden wall system is constructed with six inches wood collums that have varies hieghts to let the light come through and engage with pedestrian.

To be abke to contrast stereotonic of the wall and the tectonic of the roof, the roof is completly open in the middle and the only supoorts come from the roof to aviod any use of the colum.

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MOVEMENT GROUND PLAN

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ROOF STRUCTURE ISOMETRIC

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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Multi-function Student Center Form and Space Through Light at Auburn University, AL

FIREFLY

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North Donahue

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Biring Light In

Experiencing Nature Urban Fabric

Noise Blocking

Water Production

Green Connection

The lanterns and skylights are used to bring nature light into the building.

There are multiple accesses to engage with nature.

The connection to the exterior helps break up the space and block noises from all directions.

The rain water is colletected to nurture the vegetation inside the lanterns.

The green carries into the site to blend into the context.

The Interior of the building is designed to relate the building to the urban street.

The major intent of this project is to bring nature and light in with the courtyards that are placed inside the building. The outside facade appears to be dark and enclosed which contrasts the experience when people enter the building, like the fi efl in the darkness. The open space of this project is arranged by the entrance contains triple and double height space with the courtyard space along each side as one going through a green uran street. On the other hand, the back of the building is defined y the end of the skylight focusing more towards the control of the light that directly influen es the cooking and studying space. The structure of the is concealed by joining with the columns of the interior courtyards. The structure columns define the ourtyard space.

The roof lines up with the walls and the skylight as well as the courtyards to form the drainage and production ystem.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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SITE PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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PLAYGROUND

Modern Learning and Collaborative Space Elementary School at Montgemory, AL

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To that end, anyone thinking of renovating existing classrooms or creating new classroom spaces would want to make sure their designs reflect current trends in education. Modern schools focus on creativity and critical thinking, so interior architectural designs need to reflect those principles. Spaces that allow for a wide range of activities, such as working through problems in large groups, discussing books in small groups, or quietly focusing on projects independently, are needed.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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SSECOND PERSPECTIVE FLOOR PLAN

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