YUANYUAN YUKI CAO
PSOA25’ Post-Professional
RISD23’ BArch + BFA



ART

01 Crystalized Planes
02 The Livings
03 Upon Fingertips

ARCHITECTURE

01 Communal Housing for Martina Bustos
02 The Growing Slits
03 Flip Library
04 Atomic Apartment in Vacant Office
05 Futuristic Campus
06 Reinventing Four-sided Courtyard
07 Sea-salt Harvesting Factory
08 Time to Come Home!

FABRICATION

01 Amorphous Brick
02 Systems of Enclosures
03 Vaulting Walls

TECHNOLOGY & URBANISM

01 A City-walker’s Manual For Elderly
02 Re-imagining Tang Dynasty
03 Play!

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Atomic Apartment in Vacant OfficeYear: Spring 2022
Instructor: Laura Briggs
Team:Yuanyuan Cao, Xiaoqi Shen, Rilia Li
Role: Concept development, rendering, diagrams
Site: Shinjuku, Japan
Reconstructing the living and working rhythm

We are trying to solve a two-fold problem with our project.  In today’s world, living alone has been found to increase feelings of social isolation, while living in one place for a significant amount of time is a rarity. To address both of these points, we wanted to create affordable housing that facilitates interpersonal interaction for a mobile population. By studying the two extremes of crowded and vacant spaces in cities, the project utilizes geographic and population density-based analysis software and looks for vacant spaces in urban gaps, such as office buildings, schools, etc. In addition, the project took into account the needs of the solitary population for proximity to public transportation, basic services, and city centers. 











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PSOA25’POST-PROFFESIONAL/RISD23’BARCH+BFA
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