YUMING BAI

Design, timber engineering and fabrication, held together.

Chickadee workflow, from architectural drawings to a prefab-ready model

Chickadee

A Grasshopper plugin that turns architectural drawings into code-checked timber structure.

Aerial view of the timber deck with pergolas, planters and people gathering

All Hands on Deck

A 1,530 m² timber deck shaped by 220 survey responses, with a greenhouse reading nook.

The WikiHouse pavilion lit at dusk in a Dashilar courtyard

WikiHouse Pavilion

A CNC plywood pavilion assembled in seven hours by twelve volunteers.

Rendering of the student activity centre at dusk, with people walking towards the entrance

Student Activity Centre

A beginner's software course, taught through one exam-brief design for a student centre.

Storage modules along a courtyard wall, with a passer-by in motion

Prefabricated Storage Modules

CNC-cut plywood cabinets, dowel-jointed and installed in a hutong courtyard in a day.

Two children reading at a low plywood table with an animal-shaped chair

dotMake Furniture

Children's furniture, beds, tables and chairs, developed for production at dotMake.

Courtyard of the Yuan Village homestay, timber cladding and a flowering tree

Yuan-Future Ideal Village

Silver Award homestay concept: three courtyard buildings, each tuned to a different guest.

Bao House parked in a Beijing street at dusk, its white foam skin glowing

Bao House

A 2 × 2 m cube on a tricycle, skinned in spray foam expanded through a fabric mould.

A tabby cat standing at the entrance of a white gabled shelter on a garden bench

Woof and Meow House

A flat-pack winter shelter for stray cats and dogs, in folded PP sheet and foam.

Physical model of the visitor centre, white terraced roofs set among model trees

Botanical Garden Visitor Center

A 26,000 m² visitor centre whose stepped roofs ease a large volume into a park.

Rendering of gabled brick school buildings around a courtyard with a flagpole

Hope Primary School

Classroom blocks and a staff dormitory for a township primary school in Gansu.

Boutique interior with curved timber-batten walls, white display islands and cloud-shaped light ceilings

SSEEROOM Boutique

A women's-wear boutique wrapped in a curved timber-batten screen wall.

Faceted white tree columns with pink low-poly canopies above a dining area and a timber play house

Mitty Jump Playground

A 1,050 m² children's playground in a Beijing mall, built from folded low-poly forms.

Aircraft fuselage set among play equipment under a ceiling painted as sky

Kids Dream

A child-size city of shopfronts, a fire station and an aircraft under a painted sky.

Rendering of a yellow giraffe slide beside a red play house and a blue faceted hill

Aili Playground

An indoor children's playground in Hefei, built around faceted hills and bold colour.

Rendering of stacked red, yellow, blue and white play blocks with cut-out cross and circle openings

Hani Playground

A 550 m² children's sports hall in Shanghai, built up from red, yellow and blue blocks.

Aerial rendering of the complex, a cluster of timber-clad buildings with grey pitched roofs beside a road

Zhongjihai Lake Commercial Complex

A hotel, apartment and retail complex in Lijiang, massed as pitched-roof volumes.

Rendering of the hospital with a sweeping planted roof rising between wooded hills

Xinhui Maternity Hospital

Concept design for a maternity and child health hospital, massed as a green hill.

Rendering of the hotel tower with green facade bands beside curved low-rise buildings

Hotel SLTR

Undergraduate graduation project: a high-rise hotel with a Voronoi green facade.