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
Video, Game Utopia@Gund
2025

Interrogating the drama of “work” in the choreography of space, what if we deconstructed the Gund? Reality mediated by augmentation and simulation has replendished our collective imagination of what is real and unreal. Hyperreality, in Jean Baudrillard‘s terms is “a real without origin or reality”, a territory that disappears through the cartographer’s abstract representation. Preceding Baudrillard’s theory is the Situationists Internation who broke up the map of Paris to rewrite the psychogeography of its landscape. In an attempt to map our shared workplace, we looked to a simulated environment more akin to our impression.
Collaborators:
Chuchu Qi
June Kim



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