Yiling & Yuchen are architects based in Naarm/Melbourne who are interested in spatialising the narrative of people and context. We design beautiful experiences that are specific, refined, and joyful, embracing the individuality of every project.
Yiling & Yuchen are architects based in Naarm/Melbourne who are interested in spatialising the narrative of people and context. We design beautiful experiences that are specific, refined, and joyful, embracing the individuality of every project.
Everything comes in doubles
Everything comes in doubles
Albers
House
Photography by Tope Adesina
Florals by Soya Florist
This renovation transformed a modern apartment interior into a painting by Josef Albers. Inspired by one of their favourite artists, the clients dreamed a “living in a painting” – a vision brought to life through playful colour-blocking and a hint of whimsical surrealism.
Albers
House
Photography by Tope Adesina
Florals by Soya Florist
This renovation transformed a modern apartment interior into a painting by Josef Albers. Inspired by one of their favourite artists, the clients dreamed a “living in a painting” – a vision brought to life through playful colour-blocking and a hint of whimsical surrealism.
Painting by Josef Albers
Painting by Josef Albers
Painting by Josef Albers
Upside-down exclamation mark
Upside-down exclamation mark
Everything comes in doubles
Everything comes in doubles
Albers
House
Photography by Tope Adesina
Florals by Soya Florist
This renovation transformed a modern apartment interior into a painting by Josef Albers. Inspired by one of their favourite artists, the clients dreamed a “living in a painting” – a vision brought to life through playful colour-blocking and a hint of whimsical surrealism.
Albers
House
Photography by Tope Adesina
Florals by Soya Florist
This renovation transformed a modern apartment interior into a painting by Josef Albers. Inspired by one of their favourite artists, the clients dreamed a “living in a painting” – a vision brought to life through playful colour-blocking and a hint of whimsical surrealism.
Painting by Josef Albers
Painting by Josef Albers
Painting by Josef Albers
Upside-down exclamation mark
Upside-down exclamation mark
Curator's
House
Paintings by Nick Mullaly
Designed around the client’s expansive art collection, this interior renovation treats the artwork not simply as decoration, but as an organising principle for the house itself. Continuous chamfered forms create layered perspectives throughout the home, with each corner concealing and revealing another artwork.
Curator's
House
Paintings by Nick Mullaly
Designed around the client’s expansive art collection, this interior renovation treats the artwork not simply as decoration, but as an organising principle for the house itself. Continuous chamfered forms create layered perspectives throughout the home, with each corner concealing and revealing another artwork.
Layered views
Layered views
A house that frames art
A house that frames art
A house that frames art
Finished sample piece
Finished sample piece
Finished sample piece
Fata
Morgana
Woven by Saffron Lily Gordon with the Australian Tapestry Workshop
Photography by Tom Hvala
Fata Morgana is a tapestry piece that explores the cultural narratives of place. Designed to be placed in the Bundanon Art Museum, it is inspired by the history of the area, and uses the strategy of trompe l’oeil to pull the viewer’s eye into a fantasy landscape.
Fata
Morgana
Woven by Saffron Lily Gordon with
the Australian Tapestry Workshop
Photography by Tom Hvala
Fata Morgana is a tapestry piece that explores the cultural narratives of place. Designed to be placed in the Bundanon Art Museum, it is inspired by the history of the area, and uses the strategy of trompe l’oeil to pull the viewer’s eye into a fantasy landscape.
Detail
Detail
In the process of weaving
In the process of weaving
The tapestry becomes a trick of the eye breaking the walls of Bundanon Art Museum
The tapestry becomes a trick of the eye breaking the walls of Bundanon Art Museum
The tapestry becomes a trick of the eye breaking the walls of Bundanon Art Museum
The creature from Arthur Boyd's Curved body, Skull and Black Creek (1983) drinks from the Shoalhaven River.
The creature from Arthur Boyd's Curved body, Skull and Black Creek (1983) drinks from the Shoalhaven River.
The Singleman's Hut, reportedly built as a dwelling for an Aboriginal employee in the 1870s.
The Singleman's Hut, reportedly built as a dwelling for an Aboriginal employee in the 1870s.
Behind the Hut is a scene of cultural burning, representing the work of the Mudjingaalbaraga Firesticks team at Bundanon.
Behind the Hut is a scene of cultural burning, representing the work of the Mudjingaalbaraga Firesticks team at Bundanon.
Architectural and natural elements coincide and merge to display the history of the area.
Architectural and natural elements coincide and merge to display the history of the area.
Arthur Boyd's Runaway Bride flees the scene, while KTA's Bundanon Art Museum floats in the distance, the fata morgana that holds the artwork together.
Arthur Boyd's Runaway Bride flees the scene, while KTA's Bundanon Art Museum floats in the distance, the fata morgana that holds the artwork together.
A door from Bundanon Homestead opens as if leading to yet another fantasy scene, while one of Boyd's creatures lurks in the background.
A door from Bundanon Homestead opens as if leading to yet another fantasy scene, while one of Boyd's creatures lurks in the background.
A Home in
the Woods
Nestled in the bushland near Ballarat, this house was conceived as the first in a series of dwellings for a future artist commune. Designed to emphasise outlook onto nature, it acts as a retreat and a sanctuary.
A Home in
the Woods
Nestled in the bushland near Ballarat, this house was conceived as the first in a series of dwellings for a future artist commune. Designed to emphasise outlook onto nature, it acts as a retreat and a sanctuary.
A home in the woods
A home in the woods
A house that winds down
with the levels of the site
A house that winds down
with the levels of the site
A house that winds down
with the levels of the site
The
Tower
Sited on a steeply sloping piece of land, this zig-zag plan was designed around the idea of the cloister, winding down with the landscape. Rising above it is a tower orientated toward the Dandenong Ranges, lending the project a quiet sense of medieval romance and adventure.
The
Tower
Sited on a steeply sloping piece of land, this zig-zag plan was designed around the idea of the cloister, winding down with the landscape. Rising above it is a tower orientated toward the Dandenong Ranges, lending the project a quiet sense of medieval romance and adventure.
A glimpse into the tower & living quarters.
A glimpse into the tower & living quarters.
A glimpse into the tower & living quarters.
FMK
Photography by Danjerinel Bay
FMK explored how architectural criticism might become more accessible through popular digital culture. Structured as a ‘dating app’ for buildings within Melbourne’s CBD, the project encouraged users to swipe, rate and reconsider the buildings they pass every day.
FMK
Photography by Danjerinel Bay
FMK explored how architectural criticism might become more accessible through popular digital culture. Structured as a ‘dating app’ for buildings within Melbourne’s CBD, the project encouraged users to swipe, rate and reconsider the buildings they pass every day.
A scroll of comments collected
A scroll of comments collected
Asking the public about
Melbourne – some responses
were about architecture,
others not so much
Asking the public about
Melbourne – some responses
were about architecture,
others not so much
F*** Marry Kill, a project about
a dating app for buildings
F*** Marry Kill, a project about
a dating app for buildings
Buildings in Melbourne ranked from most loved to most hated
Buildings in Melbourne ranked from most loved to most hated
Buildings in Melbourne ranked from most loved to most hated
A red carpet opening night.
A red carpet opening night.