About
Yaqi is an emerging spatial designer focused on translating conceptual ideas into controlled spatial form.
Her work explores how spaces shape perception and influence behaviours through layering and guided circulation.
She is interested in spatial systems that appear rational while concealing hidden structures, investigating conditions where order is pushed to its limit to mask underlying instability.
Fractured Order
Exterior view of the clinic, with curved forms derived from musical structure.
This project, set on New Semakau Island, explores how architecture translates psychological tension into spatial experience through Lucien Ward, a psychiatrist concealing forbidden experiments.
The design investigates control as a condition where order is stretched rather than broken. Inspired by Toyo Ito, curved walls guide movement and perception, while vertical layering separates the clinic above from the hidden laboratory below, concealing a controlled system beneath a rational surface.
Lucien Ward—a psychiatrist who secretly continues his father’s research on human evolution through biological experimentation.
The surrounding landscape is gradually contaminated by toxic fog and failed experimental subjects, reflecting the environmental impact of Lucien’s hidden research.
Lucien Ward is a psychiatrist living on New Semakau Island. His clinic is located away from residential areas to provide a quiet therapeutic environment, while simultaneously concealing experimental activities beneath. The nearby Hunting Ground becomes part of this hidden system, where failed experimental subjects are released and observed.
The site is not only chosen for functional reasons, but also establishes a spatial relationship—where the clinic operates as a surface of trust, while the surrounding environment gradually reveals the instability and consequences beneath.
Music analysis of Rothko Chapel, translating restrained rhythm and irregular time structures into spatial tension.
Translation of musical structure into continuous spatial lines and controlled deformation.
Form-finding model exploring two spatial conditions: concentrated tension and distributed tension derived from musical structure.
Section revealing a stratified system where abandoned ruins and a composed clinic form a surface of trust, concealing a hidden experimental layer below, accessed through controlled and hidden circulation.
Floor plans showing controlled circulation and spatial organisation, separating public clinic areas from concealed experimental zones.
Interior spaces are organised into three distinct conditions:
Abandoned Area — fragmented, deteriorated environments that conceal and frame the clinic above.
Clinic — controlled, calm spaces that present order and trust to the public.
Laboratory — hidden, highly controlled environments where experimental activity takes place.
Together, these layers construct a spatial system where perception shifts from stability to concealed instability.
Loi Euzen
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