Emily Xintong Yan
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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 House for the Blind
2021

The experience of blindness is not only the loss of vision but also the acquaintance and re-acquaintance with other ways of sensing, knowing and appreciating the world. Perception of vision is the condition of sight; the perception of the celestial is the condition of insight. The loss of sight should not hinder seeing the divine. The relationship between the sky and earth is reciprocal, for knowing the earth is knowing the sky and knowing the sky is knowing the earth. The spider makes its home by entangling a strand of thread into a intricately structured web. Atop its cobweb, the spider reposes and  catches changes in its surroundings. The web acts as an extended and reconfiguable auditory sensors.


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