SM22_Making+Meaning_Portfolio

Portfolio

Tianyu Guo Southern California Institute of Architecture

TIANYU GUO

Making+Meaning 2022 portfolio

Southern California Institute of Architecture

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Phone Number:(213)549-8592

E-mail: tianyug@usc.edu

Instagram: viiii_tianyuu

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Tianyu Guo is a second-year student at the University of Southern California School of Architecture.

Raised in Jinan and Los Angeles, Tianyu developed an interest in the transformation of light and shadow and visual representation in different dimensions. In her work, Tianyu focuses more on the interaction between people and space, and how the architecture interacts with the surrounding environment. She believes architecture is not only the shelter for people to live in but also an immortal monument of a city’s history.

Outside of the field of architecture, Tianyu is interested in the artistic expression of different creative mediums, such as photography, ceramics, installation, and painting.

1(E)arring: Exploration of Digital Sculpting

2(F)ashion: Exploration of Intelligent Manufacturing

3(G)elato: Exploration of Parallel Realities

4(H)yperspace: Exploration of Three-dimensional Rendering

(E)arring

William Virgil & Kristoff Fink Individual Work Sci-Arc

Hyper detailed design methodology plays an important role in the product design.

Earring as a daily decorated object in people’s life always match peopole’s outfit of the day. Different from the ordinary earrings, in this project, I try to pursue the organic shape of curves in two hard material: metal and glass in order to build the contrast between material and the shape of earring.

Material Experiment

Final Render

Upper: Glass with metal

Lower: Gradient plastic with metal

(F)ashion

Curime Batliner & Le’keem Timothy Individual Work Sci-Arc

The idea of industry 4.0 and intelligent manufacturing is gradually becoming the reality. With the replacement of traditional labor force, robots have become the main labor force in the near future.

Fabric, as the most common source in fashion industry, is always dynamic and creating different pattern. As the technology fastly developed, the manufactruing in fashion industry has changed a lot. However, robot, the product of artificial intelligence, is always regarded as a coldblooded object. With the stereotype of artificial intelligent product, I got the inspiration of this project: giving the high-tech product the soul of hand-made.

Pattern Overview and Detail

Design Overview

Design Detail

Recording the natural flow of the fabric and pattern on it

(G)elato

Kumaran Parthiban & Lilith Ren Individual Work Sci-Arc

Exploring parallel realities of physical and digital through procedural modeling and augmented reality of “Gelato“ as the start, I experiments with the shape, form, and surface texture of Gelato and learn to simulate and customize them as 3D volumes.

Transforming it beyond a simple dessert and re-imagining it as objects at various scales and gradually increasing in complexity as it passes through the multiple mediums.

Adobe Aero QR Code

Photo Stills

(H)yperspace

Work Sci-Arc

Architecture can be manipulated, re-drawn and re-framed, the reality from people’s life can also be re-organized.

Taking the inspiration from glass artwork by Birnur Derya Geylani, I created this glass scene. In the common sense, glass is stable and fragile. However, in this project, I try to reflect the variablity that glass material has.

Julia McConnell & Donwon Choi Individual

Material Experiment

Final Scene Light Study