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Featured Projects

Yellow Invitation

The Yellow Invitation is a comprehensive design for a circular library and community hub along the Gowanus Canal, conceived as a social condenser to foster exploration and community engagement.

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Civic Sail

The Civic Sail is a high-rise design for Qingdao’s waterfront, conceived as a new civic landmark that reclaims the city’s skyline from colonial architectural symbols.

The Umbrellas

This project builds on the studies of movement and mechanism principles of the Medina umbrella, developing a new modular unit capable of creating dynamic shading and adaptable space.

Cube Village

This project proposes lightweight, modular structures atop existing buildings, aiming to rejuvenate the neighborhood in Regent Park, Toronto, while respecting its architectural fabric.

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Evolving Commons

This project explores a multi-objective optimization (MOO) workflow to inform the early-stage design of a performance-driven community hub.

Utopian Fragment

The project explores a system that grows across and around existing urban structures, transforming them into dynamic, inclusive habitats. Initiated from vacant office spaces, the system progressively expands along building exteriors, forming a responsive new urban layer.

Other Projects

An evolving archive of personal explorations in robotics, materials, visual art, and AI. These projects extend my architectural thinking into other mediums, where experimentation becomes a way to test ideas about form, making, perception, and emerging technologies.

Contact

Rachel Ran Yan

rachelyr97@gmail.com

https://www.rachelyanarchitecture.com/

Toronto, ON

Tel: 647-202-1697

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