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Fan(Emma) Bai

2019-2025 Selected Work


Fan Bai is currently a Master of Architecture student at the University of Michigan, driven by a deep passion for architectural representation. Fan’s work delves into innovative approaches to visualizing architectural concepts, using intricate drawings, compelling videos, and other visual mediums to bring ideas to life.

Beyond architecture, Fan is captivated by visual and digital art, always seeking ways to integrate these techniques into architectural design. Fan’s aim is to push the boundaries of visualization and create immersive spatial experiences. Additionally, she is sensitive to color, which informs her design approach and allows her to create visually striking and emotionally engaging work.


          

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09 PINK TOY STORY

09/2024
Academic Work


Type: Innovative Design



 This is a final paradise, a haven lingering in memory and dream - a place once alive with children’s laughter but now silent, as they’ve grown and drifted beyond its reach. The chessboard lies toppled, the echo of small footsteps grows faint, and toys rest in forgotten corners, their vibrant colors dimmed by time. The objects remain, steadfast, while time quietly slips by. Will the grown children ever return? If they do, will the toys still be waiting, patient as ever? When the children are gone, do the toys come alive, moving through silent days with lives of their own?


Then, one day, a pop-up book slowly opens, and a world born of imagination rises into view. Here, there are no walls to contain joy, no boundaries to dim imagination. Balloons dance through the sky, leaving trails of color like a child’s brushstrokes across a canvas of clouds. The clouds themselves stretch and reshape, bending into playful forms, and droplets of color fall to the ground, forming footprints of a childhood unforgotten. It’s a world woven from pure happiness, a place where the heart’s only purpose is to revel in simple delight.


But will those who’ve grown older still be captivated by such a world? Will they feel the magnetic pull of joy, still as irresistible as it was in childhood, or will they wander on, leaving the toys, the colors, and the memories to wait in silence once again?





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