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Projects

Yellow Invitation

The Yellow Invitation is a circular library and community hub along the Gowanus Canal, designed as a social condenser for exploration and community engagement.

Cube Village

This project proposes lightweight modular structures atop existing buildings in Regent Park to revitalize Toronto’s largest social housing community.

Civic Sail

The Civic Sail is a proposed 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 movement and mechanism principles of the Medina umbrella, developing a new modular unit capable of creating dynamic shading and adaptable space.

Evolving Commons

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

Utopian Fragment

The project explores a system that grows across and around existing urban structures, transforming them into dynamic, inclusive habitats.

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.

© 2026 by Rachel Ran Yan

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