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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 Architectural design
Residence for two musicians
2024
A residence for two musicians, this six-storey townhouse integrates living and work under one roof. With the upper levels being a private Victorian-style apartment and the lower three levels housing music and stylistic experimentation, the building itself symbolizes the duality inherited and lived by the musician couple. The design strategy focused on restoring and reinterpreting the existing brownstone’s architectural character and creating two additional levels below the basement to expand on the spatial, functional, visual capacity. Referencing Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, the sub-basement levels are conceived as immersive cinematic spaces for music and video production. An exercise in total design, the project created an opportunity to design and fabricate everything large and small in the house and created a collaborative alliance between the client and designer.
Trimble Architecture
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