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Yicheng Ren is a New York–based architectural designer working at the convergence of socially responsive housing and adaptive reuse. She holds a Master of Design in Interior Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design from the University of Edinburgh and frames architecture as an active social instrument—translating collective modes of inhabitation and layered historical contexts into spatial systems defined by material restraint and calibrated experiential sequences.
Her work has earned extensive international recognition, including multiple Platinum and Gold distinctions from the Houzee Awards, Better Future Awards, Design Discovery Awards, Muse Design Awards, New York Architectural Design Awards, and London Design Awards. She was invited to serve as a juror for the INSPIRELI Awards in 2025 and the A’ Design Awards in 2026. Her project Tre-Atriums was published in TerraViva Chronicles No. 1 (2024), and Crossing The Pell was exhibited at the Venice Biennale – Time Space Existence in 2025.