Lei Guo's Portfolio

Lei Guo Email: guole@umich.edu Phone: (+86)13016481670 (+1)7348814878 Wechat: Renee-dy Address: 2222 Fuller Court, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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Project1: Irregular Shape & Traffic Hubs

Theater Design

individual academic work Completed by Lei Guo,10_2018

Project2: Urban Symbiosis: a custom community module Super High-rise Building for Makers

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individual academic work

Completed by Lei Guo,08_2018

Project3: Inside Outside Relationship Theater Design

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individual academic work Completed by Lei Guo,12_2019

Project4: Healthy Residential Living Environment

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RESPIRATORY HOUSE team academic work

Completed by Lei Guo, Xinyue Sun, Motong Liu, Zhiyu Liu, 12_2020

Theater Design Irregular shape & Traffic hubs

Site Analysis & Research Background of Wuhan

Site area :16320 Total building area:22000 Green rate:52% Volume Rate:1.3 Project Location:Wu Han,China

Administrative Region

The reach of the nearby theaters

Bus routes near the site

Green fields near the site

Building Function Distribution near the Site

Introduction: The project address I chose is located in China, Hubei Province, Wuhan City, the bustling area of business, Hanzheng Street.

Initial Idea of Site

In this project, I was committed to solving the adverse effects of large-scale public buildings found in the survey on the travel of people around the site. Moreover,I left as much green space as possible in the public space of the city for the public to gather and have fun.

At the same time, in order to reflect the cultural symbols embodied in the theater in a city, I tried to adopt a smooth, flexible and varied three-dimensional shape design method.When designing the shape of the building, I took energy-saving technology into consideration.

In the early twentith century, with the opening of Hankou port, the establishment of concession and the opening of railways, Hankou business center gradually moved to the Yangtze River shore. Hanzheng Street is a small commodity market, for the development of Wuhan was put on a thick and heavy in colours.

Problem & Solution

Plan Generation

Programming Arrangement

1. Considering the influence of the surrounding environment, public transportation and other factors, the vertical stacking of each function to the ground or underground, and the setting of the overpass to realize the separation of human and vehicle.

2. In order to facilitate people’s travel in the surrounding residential areas and commercial centers, the site is divided into two floors vertically, and the shortest paths and exits are set. At the same time, new atrium strengthens vertical direction line of sight contact.

1. Business and residential areas.

2. The intention of people to travel

Curretn Situation: Frontage houses are densely arranged, public green space is few, only scattered street trees.

Solution: Build small slopes, plant trees, and provide public rest area.

1.The theater obstructs traffic around it.

2.Traffic on the road blocks people from entering the theater.

3. Itinerant neighborhoods need to make a detour to their destinations

4. The intention of people to travel

3. An underground garage is set up to divert people and cars.

Curretn Situation: There is no connection between commercial buildings.

Solution: Create a semi-open space between buildings as a medium for people to walk through, and the buildings on both sides to interact with each other.

5. Optimize the travel path into a graceful and smooth arc, forming the main road.

4. Footbridges can separate the routes of people and cars.

7. A preliminary outline of the theatre is formed by fitting the road.

Curretn Situation: People need to take detours to cross the road, and they will interface with travelling cars.

Solution: Build an overpass to seperate people’s cars and speed up traffic.

6. Select the important commercial and residential buildings as entrances

8. A small atrium was partitioned around the bend of the road.

5. The theatre is too high to block out the sunshine for passerby.

6. Change the height of the building.

Form Generation

Plot size is roughly 65650m2 and is located between Han Zheng Road and Tian Xie Drive.

The public building should provide covenience for people’s normal activities.

The architectural outline conforms to the southwest, northwest and north wind.

Cut the building area according to the flow of people to provide enough public space.

Site Plan N

Uplift of the ceiling excess sunlight without glareto protect the theater from strong sunlight and heat.

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The protruding part can shield the rain for customers.

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Ventilation &Waterproof Analysis

The non-edge part of the building is internally ventilated, i.e. the ceiling is provided with ventilation.on.

The upper part of the designed building skin has an upwardly turned casing and holes for ventilation.

The 3D curved surface protruding from the building skin can be used as a rain shelter.

The bottom of the building’s skin is provided with a casing that is turned upside down to change the flow of rainwater.

The glass skeleton structure on the top of the building allows more sunlight to enter, illuminating the cafe.

The part of the building’s skin case that is turned up is translucent glass, allowing more spot light to enter the room.

First Floor Plan N

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There are 4 entrances on the first floor of the building, of which the northwest entrance is the main entrance and leads to the exhibiton hall of the Mass Art Center. The entrance to the multi-purpose lecture hall is located in the southeast, while the entrance to the northeast is the entrance and exit of the theatre staff. The first floor serves as an activity area for the mass art center, with rooms such as

Acoustic Analysis

The theater has a total of 1054 seats, of which 856 are in the lobby, and 198 are in the lobby. The sound in the theater is transmitted straight into the human ear through the medium. At the same time, secondary reflection is used in the theater to increase the intensity. For example, the wall surface is made of sound-insulating reflective material, and the top is provided with a multi-faceted flap for reflecting sound, which increases the reverberation time of the sound and ensures the sound effect and clarity inside the theater.

Plan Basement 1

Perspective View

Second Floor

The building consist of seven floors, including two underground floors, three floors above ground, and two layers of the mezzanine.

Among them, the negative second floor is the parking lot, and the negative one is mainly composed of the theater surrounding and the catering shops. The ground floor is a mass art center for the public to understand and learn about art. The main entrance of the theater is on the second floor of the ground, and the area of the seat is on the third floor. The top floor of the entire theater is a coffee shop. At the same time, the theater section has 4 floors for the backstage area for staff and entertainers.

Perspective View

Roof Structure Detail

Maker Building Design Urban symbiosis: a custom community module Site area: 19200 Total building area: 216000 Green rate: 43% Volume rate: 11.25 Project location: Bei Jing,China

Background Analysis

Site Analysis

Travel distance from home to office

Travel time from home to office

Maker living conditions

Living space per person

Per capita housing area

Maker income distribution

Building Storey Height Map

Residential Area Map

Urban Road Network

Public Traffic Map

Green Space & Open Space

Business Building Map

Introduction: This project, according to the 2018 UA CUP mission list, is designed to meet the rapidly changing functional needs of the city through prefabricated modular unit designs.

Firstly, the project strats with a rigid and detailed series of analysis and researches.In order to make better use of the surrounding environment of the site, the point selection system is used to screen the locations of different functional modules.

Through the deeper analysis of the special work group of Maker, it is found that the work and life of the maker was different from that of the ordinary office worker.Thus, unit modules of makers at different stages should satisfy their different requirement.

Therefore, some special office buildings, such as third-party investor offices, model rooms, lecture rooms, etc., in different public spaces are inserted into the buildings according to different stages of entrepreneurial requirements.

Maker Behavior Analysis

Design Strategy

Traffic Space Generation

Stigmergy Introduction

The coordinated movement of flocks of birds, pulsing and spiraling in unison, often inspires awe in us.

Though these groups may appear almost divine, they are governed by a set of underlying principles that determine how individuals in a swarm or social network behave. This concept is referred to as stigmergy.

We can embody a simple set of rules which is genetically imprinted in a “farmer” ant. When it finds food, it

Pulling up a box at the venue backup as a maker building.

Choose the location with the largest flow ofpeople as the entrance of the building. They are also the starting point for ants to leave. Use the point selected by the selection system as food.

Start the ant system, and the ants will follow the principles of stigmergy to get around obstacles and get food.

Bake the path where the ants ran.

Use a line segment to connect the path formed by the point set and adjust it according to the practicability.

Transfer the polyline into a tube and put the elevator in it.This is the main traffic space of the building.

Method of Selecting Points

Unit Module Office Area

Residential Area

Inspiration Room

Public Area

1.Office module Based on the previous survey results of the maker group, I divided the offices at different stages of entrepreneurship into three categories. The number of people at each stage, the open nature of the office, and the functional facilities are different. Among them, there are offices of 6, 10, 14 and 36 people. In the early stage, the office was mostly 6-10 people, and the office was 10-14 people in the medium term and 14-34 people in the later period.

2. Residential module I classified the homes into single rooms, double rooms, standard suites, and triple suites based on the survey of the singles situation of the makers. The single and double rooms are matched according to the needs, and then the public areas such as the living room, bathroom and kitchen are arranged, thus forming a group apartment. Group apartment is classified as Couple room x6, Deluxe suite for 3 people, Single room x11, Triple suite x4.

3. Public area I classify the public area into three groups. They are placed in two high-rise buildings, and the largest group used by everyone was placed above the road. Specifically, the three groups are composed of restaurants, bars, tea rooms, outdoor leisure green space, small

Public Space Analysis

1st Floor Plan

25th Floor Plan

53rd Floor Plan

Scene View

Public Space View

Office Space View

Residentail Space View

Theater Design——“In the House” 20% of Circulation area Corridor Widths:6’ Egress Stairs (number):4 Egress Stair widths:8’ Egress Door widths:4’ Accommodations for Accessibility Elevators:6 Ramps:1 Doors:4 P r o j e c t l o c a t i o n : A n n A r b o r, Michigan

Introduction: " In the House" is a theater project located in Ann Arbor where Power Center currently stands. It values welcoming everyone to the house, not just the audience who comes for the performance. The rich public spcae inserted into the building makes it possible that the visiors outside can also perform their own "plays", such as reading, socializing, eating, or drinking coffee while the audience inside is enjoying the wonderful show.

In this project, the relationship between architecture forms and environment is the first consideration. Different kinds of space sequence has various influence on surroundings. Moreover, how to integragate and compromise the circulation and space between inside and outside space is an important part.

Meanwhile, the stage design for Frozen is shown to explore the specific inner theater space.

Physical Model

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Lobby View

Section Plan

RESPIRATORY HOUSE Healthy residential living environment Total gross floor area: 489,180 sf Total building area: 169,460 sf Green rate: FAR: 2.89 Project location: West Jefferson Avenue and West Grand Boulevard, Detroit, MI

Introduction:

Since the implementation of the “make a greener, more sustainable city” proposal of the City Hall, Detroit has been creating a much more livable urban environment in recent years.

To keep up with Detroit’s transformation and enhance the bond between residents and the natural environment, new forms of green living are much needed. Therefore, a respiratory is born as the green, pleasant living environment. The Respiratory House intends to introduce natural elements into the community, allowing the site to “breathe” through green space. Many kinds of respiratory architecture forms can be used to provide residents with good sound, air, thermal, and moisture comfort. With the extensive gathering design strategy, the respiratory feature may not just be limited to be used in the site but can also be adopted by other neighborhoods, even the whole city.

The significance of Respiratory House is that it no longer defines the form of residence as a rigid box, but a system that can be adjusted autonomously. While the new living form improves people’s living environment, it also contributes to the sustainable development of the city.

Video: https://youtu.be/x3FGZYs40_k

Site Situation

Massing Generation

Facade

01 Site Analysis

02 Noise Barrier

03 Public Space

04 Adjust Building Height

05 Entrance Consideration

06 Parking Consideration

07 Facade Flow

08 Public Green Space

Green Strategy

Street Scene

Green House

Retail Street

Retail Street

Pavillion Courtyard

Retail Street

Site Plan

1st Floor Plan

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Elevation & Detail

Section

Movable Panel Schematic

Balony Scene

Green Balony Detail

Unit Typology

1B1B_a

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1B1B_b

2B2B_b

2B2B_c

The unit typology of Respiratory House emphasizes the idea of the green balcony, which is a creative solution to deal with the heat island effect, street noise, and the lack of green space in the neighborhood. The green balcony conveys a living notion of living in harmony with nature.

The liberal polygonal outline of the building results in 6 different shapes of the unit, including 1b1b, 2b2b, and 3b3b(loft), in order to accommodate a wide variety of lifestyles. Each unit has at least one balcony with a triangular planting pot and a breathing green wall, which allows residents to grow different plants and create their unique balcony garden. Considering that the project is located adjacent to East Jefferson Avenue, one of the busiest streets in Detroit, residents are facing noise and pollution problems. The plants on the balcony can produce more oxygen and improve the indoor air quality for residents. And the balcony will act as a noise buffer zone for the unit, improving the indoor sound quality. Additionally, the green balcony can make up for the loss of backyard space for the apartment residents and allow them to easily get in touch with nature and develop their different green lifestyles.

Loft

Prophet

The Prophet located in the New York Central Park projects its foresight about climate change through its physical actions. She will either sink into or push back up out of the water below projecting current scientific predictions of the impact of climate change. Fibers in the stalks of the character are in synthesis with those of the site in communication the site and character act together in the mentioned movements. The manipulation of site is made to further echo the melting condition of the glaciers at the poles while the Prophet acts as its own glacier slowly sinking further into the water if no action remains to be taken in reversing climate change. In the science fiction novel “New York 2140” the author, Kim Stanley Robinson, reimagines the city as one that has been overcome by water due to climate change. This future imagines New York as a “Super Venice” where people ride boats in the streets and walking paths have been elevated so that people can still travel by foot.

The character “The Prophet” will act according to future scientific predictions sinking into its own ocean unless climate change is grappled with and altered.

During this silent act of expression, it will also act as a protective friend to all beings who wish to interact and learn. The Prohet will also be able to communicate in other ways. Anyone choosing to experience the structure would be able to ascend into the stalks and look out over the water.

Lei Guo Email: guole@umich.edu Phone: (+86)13016481670 (+1)7348814878 Wechat: Renee-dy Address: 2222 Fuller Court, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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