08/2025: SAF Design in Depth — New Futures for Empty Offices: Mike Jobes
Siyu believes architecture lives at the intersection of art and science. It is grounded in creativity, logic, and human experience. With a background in art and a multicultural lens, she sees design as a bridge that connects culture, environment, and technology to elevate everyday life.
To Siyu, architecture is both a vessel and storyteller. “While designing a building, I love to picture the kinds of events that might have happened there, and all the memories that are to come in that space.” She is passionate about inclusive public space, enhancing the relationship between people and place. Siyu believes these spaces provide poetry, dreams, and possibilities, while engaging with the community and its people’s past, present and expectation of the future.
With dual strengths as Project Architect and Project Manager, Siyu enjoys the full design arc: testing ideas through drawing and modeling, refining them with the team, and bringing them to life in the built world. For Siyu, collaboration across disciplines is essential to meaningful, successful work—sharing knowledge, learning from others, and designing with intention.