Selected Stories
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 Environment consulting
Tomaquag Museum
2021
The Tomaquag Museum is the only Indigenous Museum in the state of Rhode Island. With the museum’s mission to engage and promote Indigenous cultures and spiritual values, the museum approached BKAD with the decision to incorporate environmentally friendly and sustainable building practices in the design and operation of the museum’s renovated building. BKAD developed comprehensive strategies using
design decisions and material choices to accomplish the organization’s core values and goals for grant applications.
Briggs Knowles A+D
Team:
Laura Briggs, Partner
Emily Yan, Design Associate
Jeff Geisinger, Daylight consultant
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