Projects

PhD Thesis: Investigating Stroke Rehabilitation Architecture: Increasing Visual Connectivity and View Quality with a Performance-Integrated Design Approach

This thesis aims to develop and test a performance-integrated design approach to improve visual connectivity and view quality in stroke rehabilitation facility architecture.

ARC-Linkage Walk-quality: A multi-criteria design platform to facilitate active travel

This ARC-linkage project attempts to fill a gap in understanding the micro‑level spatial and environmental factors contributing to walk quality and provide open-access digital tools to help urban design professionals make better planning decisions and help the community plan safer and more comfortable walking routes.

Neuroscience Optimised Virtual Environments Living Lab (NOVELL)

NOVELL Redesign is a healthcare redesign and innovation project focused on transforming stroke rehabilitation environments. The process is user-centred, multi-stakeholder and led by an interdisciplinary team. This project brought a pioneering and rigorous approach to healthcare design. Using a Living Lab framework and a Design Science approach, this project integrates evidence from rehabilitation architecture and neuroscience with cutting-edge technology to produce new, virtual rehabilitation facility designs, which can be tested, evaluated, refined and realised.

Tianyi Yang

Researcher, Educator, Designer

Projects