Runyan Guo's portfolio Jan 2024

PORTFOLIO

Name : Runyan Guo

E-mail : runyanguo@gmail.com

Tel : 7657607588

Major : Master of Architecture

School : University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Roomie Finding App Design

Date: Fall 2023, October -December 2023

Course: DTX 495

Professor: Jake Fava & Ch’nel Duke

Student Team: Runyan Guo & Gabby Brunner & Kymira Parker & Lucas Eggert

User Research

Through user research we found:

UIUC students need an efficient method to connect with potential roommates.

UIUC students need a way to find compatible students to live with.

UIUC students need a way to find students who share similiar housing preferences with them.

“HOW MIGHT WE” Statements

HOW MIGHT WE alleviate the stress of finding a roommate for UIUC students?

HOW MIGHT WE assist UIUC students with finding a roommate they are compatible with?

HOW MIGHT WE assist UIUC students with finding a roommate and preferred place to live?

IDEA

Make an app where UIUC students can find roommates they are compatible by taking a personality quiz and connecting them to other people they have similar personality’s/interests with.

IDEATE: WIREFRAME SKETCHES

Screen 1- Housing Preferences

Choices in relation to housing Type, location, price

Screen 2-Personality Quiz

Multiple selection options per question

Screen 3-Profile Matches

Silimar User Interface to popular dating apps

Social Media Influencer Project

Date: Fall 2023, October -November 2023

Course: ADV 491

Professor: August Schiess

Social media influencer project is a project to give you the opportunity to identify and analyze an influencer who has a big impact on social media, especially Instagram or TikTok. We can learn a lot from these influencers who have established their brand and strategies to reach many people.

They have to be one person.

They are not a celebrity or politician - meaning they didn’t have an established platform before starting their presence on Instagram or TikTok.

Their follower count is at least 25K.

Their account is active.

Quang Hung is a digital creator influencer. He is a student from Vietnam. He is focusing on studying. He shows some comfortable handwriting study notes and gives people a good feeling that could give a sense of distress.

Most audience demographics are high school students, and college students from all over the world now. They want to learn how to make notes beautiful and also want to get a peaceful distress from his posts. At the same time, followers also want to know what brands of stuff he uses in each posts, like notebooks, pens, colorful pens, rulers, stickers, etc.

Account: Quang Hung @ Instagram

Content: Digital creator

Follower: 27.9K

His content changes according to his personal experience.

His notes cover the area of chemistry, biology, physics, math when he was in high school.

Posting schedule: 4 times per week.

His unique style is having a top overview photo of his notes and putting some pens around it

It looks very casual, and makes followers feel relaxed, feel the study is a relaxing thing. He has a fixed shooting angle.

There’s a consistent layout of his posts, so when you open his profile, it’s very easy to remember him and recognize him.

He goes to Australia to study after he graduated from high school. He is a freshman now, and he shows notes about English (IELTS).

Also, he has some interaction posts like giveaways. He will pick followers from the comments to give away notebooks, pens, watches, etc. Those are the stuff related to his account contents.

The most loved post:

-Easily and readable diagrams, relaxing handwritten style, a shared common study background

-Techniques, lighting, subject:

-a top overview photo of his notes and putting some pens around it.

-Notes are organized well vertically within the page frame. Name, titles, subtitles, diagrams, highlighting to show important notes.

I followed his unique style is having a top overview photo of his notes and putting some pens around it.

Having one hand holding a pen.

Having some diagrams.

It looks very casual, and makes followers feel relaxed, feel the study is a relaxing thing.

Having a fixed shooting angle.

There’s a consistent layout of his posts.

Social Media Content Calendar

Date: Fall 2023, November -December 2023

Course: ADV 491

Professor: August Schiess

Student Team: Runyan Guo & Kaylee Patthana & Anahi Munoz & Kristina Bell

Client: Art Mart, a shop in Champaign, Illinois

About: They are committed to modern living, selling a little bit of everything: deli, bakery, wine, housewares, groceries, toys, gifts, and catering

As an established business in town, Art Mart has a reliable customer base. However, they are working to build stronger ties with a more diverse community. They would specifically like to create a space, on social media and in the store, that is welcoming and affirming to everyone, while showcasing the variety and quality of their products. For an upcoming cheese and wine tasting event, they would like to exclusively feature products from minority-owned businesses. They would also like to invite community members to the event. Using social media, create a campaign that aims to build a warm, welcoming, and engaged online community, attract minority-owned businesses for the event, and invite event attendees with open, authentic, and affirming content.

The one-week content calendar and campaign should take place in June, with the wine and cheese tasting event scheduled for June 30. They would like to increase their follower count by 200 people and find 10 businesses to participate in the tasting.

Muncie Mixed Use Center

Date: Spring 2021, March -May 2021

Course: ARCH 302

Professor: Josh Edwards

The Muncie Forward mixed use development aspires to catalyze a shift to a more equitable and sustainable future. Avoiding shifting and diminishing educational resources, food deserts and limited access to fresh and healthy produce, shifts from a manufacturing based to technology-based workforce. The site for the project is a vacant (parking) lot bordered on the south by Main Street and on the west by north Mulberry Street on the West. The Muncie Civic Theater is directly to the east of the project site.

In this design, the main key word is sold framing void. Both solid and void are served as programmed space. As the solids came together, voids emerged. To reinforce the idea of façade, vertical windows and horizontal windows came up. Changing the size from the façade, “Solid frames void” idea came out. Also, through pushing windows back or forward, void and solid created.

The programs include an auditorium, several classrooms and admin offices, printer room, child care room, a market place, four story tall leasing office, workforce equipment room, health space, gym space including locker rooms and yoga rooms.

A courtyard inside of the building with a pond provides visitors a comfort vibe to go outside. Also, the roof of each floor is also a outdoor space or roof garden for the upper level. There are some open and shaded sitting area, and path on the roof garden.

WATER LINE

COLD WATER

WATER LINE

HOT WATER wall

COLD WATER

HOT WATER mechanical system

lighting and ventilation diagram

West elevation

North elevation

Education Center

Date: Spring 2020, March -May 2020

Course: ARCH 202

Professor: Rod Underwood

There’s a community school and church near the site. And the site is surrounded by a long river, like an isolated island. Local communities can hang out around the site. In this community can meet the basic needs of life, shopping, schools, restaurants, banks, etc. Moreover, the main road of W Smith St crosses the east-west direction of the middle of the community. There is a small bridge on the east side, but this does not become a formal, main passage.

In my design, my conceptual approach is combining repetitive volumes to form a new space. A growth of building and site grow and enlarge as you move from point to point. I define the space by the room, each space is independent and yet connected to create the whole. Wooden circulation creates the space for users to make a choice. The internal height of the building space is also changing, creating a dynamic spatial beauty. The space below the building is a garden maze, a good place to play. The building rises and falls, echoing the idea of the maze. The contrast between the virtual and the real formed by wooden circulation makes the building light and transparent. The entire building is an open space, and undefined boundary line with entrances and exits on both East and West sides. The main entrance is on the South side and is connected to community by a long bridge. The bridge is over the river.

first floor

second floor

two-story garden maze

circulation glass floor

site plan

-For people of different age ranges, architecture gives them different feelings; for young children, here is their space for growth; for students going to school, here is their learning space; for working people, here is their a space to relax after work; for retired people, here is a place for their friends to chat.

-I think we need a road that directly connects our venues and communities.

structure

West elevation

North elevation

East elevation

South elevation

animal education & interior education

lobby 2

lobby 1

Amazon’s Tree

Date: Spring 2020, February -March 2020

Course: ARCH 202

Professor: Rod Underwood

In this age of conglomerates, two industry giants, Barnes and Noble and Amazon.tree, are joining forces to create an extension of the Barnes and Noble - coffee shop idea. Their new joint venture will be the combination of a specialty book/information source which will have (as they say in the add) has “every piece of information in every language every written” about the growth and cultivation of plant materials in a combination of written and electronic forms. Contingent with this informational resource will be the real deal! A source for virtually any plant, suitable to the climate, that you might want to cultivate. Exotic plants would also be available for “personal - homeowners” controlled climate greenhouses.

site plan

floor plan

east elevation

west elevation

interior rendering

Kindergarten Design

Date: Spring 2020, April -July 2020

Student Team:

Runyan Guo & Nian Shi & Jiali Wan

circulation diagram

typical local air circulation diagram

2nd

front view

west elevation

east elevation

Gilmer Chapel

Date: Fall 2022, August -November 2022

Course: ARCH 571

Professor: Paul Hardin Kapp

In this design studio, students will design a rehabilitation and an addition to the Gilmer Chapel, a small historic rural chapel, located in southwestern Virginia. This project will entail the design of a small kitchen, full bathroom, storage, bedroom, and well pump/water tank space. The project will encompass a one hundred square foot addition(maximum).

The renovated building is lead by a gravel road surrounded by trees to the entrance. It has one open bedroom, an open kitchen, a dinning area, a living room, a half shaded terrace ajacent to the living room, and one ADA bathroom. The bathroom on the Northeast as the addition for the project.

This is a section view cutting from the living room facing the back wall. It shows the sofas in the living room. At the same time, the line cutting through the bathroom, which shows the wash sink, toliet and the window on the wall.

Lighting & Luminaires

Date: Fall 2020, November -December 2020

Course: Environmental Systems

Professor: Tom Collins

Student Team: Runyan Guo & Paige Wojcik

My teammate and I came up the idea together. I made the majority pictures part, like the dimensions images, elevation images, and the brochure board.

Classical Column

Date: Fall 2019, November -December 2019

Course: Digital Design

Professor: Richard Tursky & James Kerestes perspective(zoom out) perspective(zoom in)

Sketches/ Water Color

Sketches of ancient towns in China

Sketches in SketchesEurope in Europe

City: Suzhou, China

City: Hangzhou, China

Magazine Cover Design

Date: Spring 2021, April 2021

Course: Computer Applicances

Professor: Renmei Xu

TIME

THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE U.S.

RISING OF THE VIROUS CASES INFLUENCES THE INDUSRY IN EUROPE

BY MICHAEL JOKED DELAYED FRENCH OPEN

BY JENNIER STOCK A LUXURY TOUR OF YOUR BACKYARD

BY JOSH NICK VACCINE SLOTS ARE AVAILABLE BY MIKE

Soup Can Label Design

Date: Spring 2021, April 2021

Course: Computer Applicances

Professor: Renmei Xu

Student Team

In this Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup we begin with good, honest ingredients in chicken without antibotics and egg noodles. It has no articial flavors and is low in fath & cholesterol. Delicious goodness in every bite.

Campbell’s Soup Company like many soup manufactures is experiencing a decline in sales of chicken noodle soup due to the economy. The current label does not feature the product. They also suggested that the new design eludes the unsubstantiated claim that there are medicinal qualities to the soup.

Pink as the background color to appeal young generation.

List of nutrition facts and directions to make cooking easy.

Simple, modern circular look in the center to appeal to customers.

Same promise as past looks.

this Campbell’s Chicken Noodle soup we begin with good, honest ingredients in chicken without antibotics and egg noodles. It has no articial flavors and is low in fath & cholesterol. Delicious goodness in every bite.

Similar to past labels overall to make finding new look easier.

Campbell’s

Campbell’s

Chicken Noodle Soup

Campbell’s Chicken

Chicken Noodle Soup

Noodle Soup

Mix Soup + 1 Can of Water

MICROWAVE: Microwave ovens vary. Time given is approximate.

HEAT, COVERED, IN MICROWAVABLE BOWL ON HIGH 2 1/2 TO 3 MINUTES. CAREFUL. LEAVE IN MICROWAVE 1 MINUTE, THEN STIR.

STOVE: HEAT, STIRRING OCCASIONALLY.

CAUTION: METAL EDGES ARE SHARP. RECOMMEND USE BY DATE ON CAN END. PROMPTLY REFRIDGERATE UNUSED SOUP IN SEPARATE CONTAINER.

Cell Phone Design

Date: Spring 2021, April 2021

Course: Computer Applicances

Professor: Renmei Xu

Student Team

Attaches To Wrist Folds Open

Apple recently introduced a new version of the iPhone; however, the phone design is similar to the last version. To complicate matters further, several other competing manufactures have released phones that are very similar to the iPhone. To remain competitive, Apple is looking for a new and innovative design for the next version.

Graphic Design