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Wai Yan Oo

Wai Yan Oo is an architect from Myanmar, currently based in Japan. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Thanlyin Technological University in 2019 and pursued his Master of Engineering at I-AUD, Meiji University, as a MEXT Scholarship recipient, graduating in 2021. After gaining experience through several internships during his studies, he joined Kengo Kuma & Associates in 2023 after passing the design examination.

Alongside his professional practice, he co-founded and develops Phase Architects with Stella (Kyal Sin Moe), exploring architecture through competitions, independent projects, and collaborations. Through Phase, he has received international recognition while also engaging with younger architects and students through studio workshops and educational activities.

His approach to architecture is rooted in the belief that architecture is a symbiosis between society and nature. He believes that we protect what we love, know, and feel connected to. Through architecture, he seeks to create an emotional bridge between people and nature creating places where society and the natural environment can coexist, interact, and belong to one another.

Kyal Sin Moe

Kyal Sin Moe is an architect from Myanmar. She graduated from Thanlyin Technological University with a Bachelor of Architecture and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) as a KMUTT Scholarship recipient.

Her interests lie in small-scale architecture, where she explores how modest interventions can create meaningful relationships between people, space, and their surroundings. Alongside practice, she is deeply interested in architectural education and research, with a particular focus on learning through making, experimentation, and dialogue.

As a co-founder of Phase Architects, she works alongside Wai Yan Oo in developing projects, competitions, and independent explorations that seek to question conventional approaches to architecture and discover new possibilities through a more human-scaled practice.

" We believe that architecture is a symbiosis between society and nature. We inspire the architecture from the lifecycle and biogeochemical cycles to emphasize the principle of variability, adaptability, flexibility, continuity, and sustainability."

"We believe that people only protect what we love and who we know and are emotionally connected with. We are trying to make an emotional bridge from human to nature by creating a place where nature and society can be together."