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Emily Xintong Yan is an architectural designer and researcher passionate about space, design and their fables.
Her work are driven by an intuitive desire to investigate and storytell. Her ongoing research projects are genre-bending pursuits, intrigued by the capacity of humanism and spatial sociology. Her paper architecture explores the fictive potential of tectonic forms and embeds philosophies of dwelling inspired by film, literature and dreams. Her narrative style emulsifies fiction and nonfiction, poeticism and history, creative writing and reportage. She is dedicated to a multi-disciplinary practice where architecture, arts, and letters reaffirm our human presence in the world.
She was born in Singapore, raised in China, grew up in the UK and educated in the US. The Alphabet
The Waiting Room
The Utopia
The Garden
The Residence I
The Lighthouse
The Residence II
The Gallery
The Bridge
The Postcard
The Shell
The Archives
The Museum
The Trees
The Place Concept, Design
Archiving the Archives
2021
This project proposes an adaptive reuse of the demolished Georgia Archives Building. Once sited between the Georgia State Capitol building and important interstate highways, the building was remarked for its preservation of history of Georgia and as a neo-classical modernist landmark. However, the building was also an embodiment of injustices serving antiquated ethics shown through extremely low ceilings in worker-occupied spaces, racially segregated bathrooms, a windowless concrete facade.
The adaptive reuse strategy focuses on breaking apart the original parking spaces below ground and implanting new typologies of archival and exhibition spaces. In doing so, the original building above is rendered as a memorial monument for its glory and infamy.
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