Shuang Yan
Shuang is an accomplished architectural designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Holding a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley, with a background in New Media, Shuang has garnered valuable professional experience with contributions to esteemed firms such as Richard Beard Architects, SmithGroup, and Aidlin Darling in San Francisco, and Scenic Architecture Office in Shanghai. Her impressive portfolio includes winning multiple national and international competition awards and active participation in international exhibitions.
Beyond her architectural expertise, Shuang is a versatile creative professional, currently serving as a Creative Designer. Previously, she worked on innovative projects at the UC Berkeley XR Lab, garnering recognition from various publications. With a skill set spanning immersive technology, human-computer interaction, and visual design, Shuang brings a unique and interdisciplinary approach to her creative endeavors.
Architecture Affect Humans
By Perception
Sense - Human - Cognition
Humans receive external information through the senses. They process that information and form thoughts based on those interactions. Architecture plays an intermediary role, as substance of contact with people, triggering a specific cognition and thought process.
Perception
When the human enters architectures, human perception is influenced by senses, sight, hearing, touch, and smell. Those senses are awakened through material texture, light intensity, spatial density and so on. Wood creates sense of warmth; the shaping of light produces solemnity; open space creates sense of relaxation.
Experience - Architecture - Purpose
The only way for architectural design is to provide specific sensory experiences designed to exert changes upon human perception, thus achieving a certain purpose. Architect must focus on the most basic aspects of architectural design, to probe its intermediary role and to broaden its methods of affecting perception.
July 2020, Working While Living featured in From the studios: 10 new architectural student projects on Archinect.
May 2020, Reborn By Renovation won 2020 AIA COTE Top Ten for Students.
May 2020, Hanging Above Canal featured in Berkeley CED Circus 2020.
December 2019, Symbiosis Within Urban won the 1st Prize in 3rd International Shopping Plaza Concept Competition 2019.
September 2019, Re-Assembling Archive is exhibited at Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Exhibition.
September 2019, Working While Living exhibited in ARCH and LEAP First Annual Student Exhibition in UC Berkeley.
March 2019, Working While Living featured in Berkeley CED Circus 2019.
October 2018, Walking Along Time featured in Space And Body published by Tongji University Press.
March 2018, VR Project - In Between featured in Berkeley CED Circus 2018.
May 2017, Home Above Market and Faith Of Book published in Everyday Life And Beyond by ArchiCreation Magazine.
September 2016, Home Above Market published in Design Method And Architectural Form Home Above Market III by Tongji University Press.
June 2015, Walking Along Time featured in Teaching Plans Of Architectural Design published by Tongji University Press.