
August 8, 2024
Qing Yin’s Passion for Storytelling Informs Her Design Process


The desire to exhibit the structure’s interior may be related to Yin’s passion for storytelling. Before switching to architecture for her master’s, she had been an undergrad art student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where she produced a series of remarkable studies of rooms. In A Piano Piece on the Sea, comic-like sketches illustrate the concept of a cruise ship that gives spatial form to Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp Minor. In her Botanical Garden Design for a 2022 UCLA studio, colorful hand-drawn perspectives evoke the experience of visiting a scalloped, biophilic building that overflows with plant life.
“Architecture, for me, every project is a story,” says Yin. “What we want to achieve is to tell this story well. The comics communicate to people who don’t have an architecture background. It’s like a storyboard in film design: to show them as a first person how you step up into the space to the final stage.”
Yin completed two internships in Los Angeles, exploring different building scales and types, from small residential projects to larger commercial ones. She’s already had the chance to work on a skyscraper during an internship last summer. “It was interesting for me,” she says. “I’m not sure what scale of building I’m comfortable with, so I want to explore more to find out what I feel best in.”
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