Guangyan Luo

MA 2020.9 -- 2022.6 Royal Academy of Art

BA 2016.9-2020.6 Northeast Forestry University, Environmental Design

Guangyan Luo was born in Tai'an, China. His projects and work cover architecture, interior design, exhibition design and art. During his postgraduate studies, he became interested in the reuse of buildings and chose the Reuse platform. The platform is essentially repurposing and repositioning of what already exists to achieve a completely new context.

His graduation thesis Flow Architecture and Toyo Ito got a distinction. In the thesis, he reinterpreted the classic works of Pritzker Prize winner Toyo ITO from the perspective of flow architecture and proposed new ideas on the development of space design in the post-epidemic era.

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Guangyan Luo is an active, enthusiastic and ambitious interior designer. It can be said that he completed his graduation project with his love of British maritime history.

He loved to explore Britain's sea history and culture. During his second year of postgraduate studies, he developed a keen interest in Britain's maritime history. He visited almost all the important dockyards in the UK including Portsmouth, Chatham, Greenwich, Cornwall and Dog Islands. There he saw aircraft carriers, HMS VICTORY, HMS M.33, the Mary Rose, the Warrior1860 (the Finest ship of war in the world) and other important ships of historical value. He learned about the economic development of Britain, the history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and the emergence of important historical figures during that period, such as the monument and bronze statue of Nelson in Trafalgar Square.

During his visits to these museums, he also learned how to design a more attractive and enriching museum experience. The way of supporting the hull, the method of making the canoe, the choice of materials, and so on, all gave him a lot of inspiration for his project.

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When I first went to this place, I became interested in the hidden, dark spaces of this building. Most of these spaces are hard to see; dark and hidden, like the space under the stairs.

Among them, I chose Post Wing to continue my research. It has the thickest walls compared to the rest of the building and several safe deposit boxes for storing mail and money. In my view, it's the most hidden space of this building.

DESIGN STRATEGY

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INITIAL CONCEPT – I took inspiration from the shipyard and extracted some design vocabulary, such as crane, steel structure bracket, cantilever, teak floor, iron railings, etc. I used these elements to design and reinforce the main route. The beams of the structure can support the hull, and they can also move up and down depending on the needs of the museum.

I extended the underground space to make the main road more powerful and more rhythmic.

The red part is my change and addition to the original building. I added two walls and raised the existing one to emphasize the main road.

The museum contains three important exhibits, the last surviving fishing trawler Mincarlo, the statue of Sir Peto and the Lighthouse.

When we walk down the street, people are attracted by the tall walls, the huge Mincarlo slices, and the huge slogans.

When people walk into a museum, the first object they see is the statue of Sir Peto. The road above the WING is filled with water. I added some water jets to the structure so that people can experience the feeling of sailing on the sea, the hard life of a sailor on the sea.

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When we walked to the front of the post office and looked back, we could see all the ships from the first to the third floor. We can also vaguely see a section of Mincarlo.

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It's an immersive audio-visual environment where we can hear the sounds of the sea, and the shouts of the crew on the Mincarlo. Mincarlo is sailing again! With the audience that loves him.

When we finished visiting Lighthouse, we could take the elevator all the way down to the ground floor. The spaces here are quite different. You can see that I used polished cement with strong reflections and painted them in light blue because I wanted to immerse people in the sea.

As for the choice of materials, my inspiration mainly comes from the local materials used in the shipyard I visited. Like a crane that transports goods. The choice of materials is rough, powerful and rough.

Guangyan Luo

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