Siau Xi Yu
About
Xi Yu's approach to interior design is shaped by her interest in theatre and exhibition spaces.
She is drawn to designing environments that unfold through a sequence of experiences and transitions that guide attention and shape feelings.
With a curious mindset, Xi Yu explores spatial sequencing transform spaces into immersive experiences engaging both senses and imagination.
Opaline Circus
The Opaline Circus is set within the City of the Disgruntled, where wealth is built on exploitation, and entertainment becomes a way for the powerful to consume violence without direct confrontation.
The Opaline Circus functions as a glamorous social destination for the rich but behind this extravaganza, lies a hidden world of labour, control and neglect.
The building reflects and operates through this dual condition of what is publicly performed and what is deliberately concealed.
Axonometric diagram
Animal loading area—visible to the public eye. It is accessed by the common corridor.
The back of house areas hidden are behind the circus stage and accessed from the rear. The lift that loads the circus acts into the main theatre is located at its core.
An open space on the second floor allows patrons to mingle between the bar area below and from this waiting area space, where patrons are guided to the main circus theatre.
The animal exhibition space
Common corridor that leads to the exhibition area and animal viewing area
Animal viewing area along the common corridor
Sectional perspective
Minchae Kim
Shraddha Giria
Yin Phyo Aye Julia
Cao Yaqi
Alicia Lim
Ong Cui Yi
