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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 Light-Haus: inhabiting the shadow2024

“Correlations: an education center in Hudson, NY”: The presence of light has been tirelessly correlated with the procurement of knowledge. Thanks to the lighthouse illuminating the hudson river, the unknowing seafarer interprets the pattern of projected light to understand the location of shallow shore. At the core of the projected light is a center unilluminated by itself. It is from the shadow, it observes the beyond. This project proposes to project the shadows upon the visitors seeking education in order to see a greater light.
While at ‘T’ Space Architecture Residency






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