WY-TO is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Paris and Singapore with a decade of built environment experience that focuses on holistic society improvements through purposefully planned spaces and everyday interactions.

First founded in Singapore by Managing Director and Head of Design, Yann Follain in 2010, WY-TO has since grown its multifaceted studio to Paris with Co-founder and Paris’s Director, Pauline Gaudry in 2012. Our diverse portfolio is enriched with each country’s heritage that has shaped and synthesised our design approaches in various creative fields. Supporting this is the fundamental belief that Design must serve a cause.

Secretary of Docomomo SG (Documentation and Conservation of the Modern Movement) and Provolk’s Founder, Jonathan Poh, joined in 2020 as WY-TO Singapore’s Director. Together, we lead people from all walks of life to an inclusive cultural understanding. Through well-tailored environments, we achieve and set better living quality standards in metropolitan and rural projects.

Inspired by each studio’s exchanges, day-to-day encounters, and the ever-evolving landscape, we constantly refine our creative, practical, and ethical design ideologies. Our intuitive concepts with distinct human-centric themes seek to educate and unify everyday interactions, regardless of background, religion, gender or age group.

Grounded by research-proven methods, WY-TO continuously goes beyond and harmonises form, function, and design.

We believe that empathetic, and honest long-lasting design solutions are possible without undermining relevant needs in large cityscapes and other less urbanised contexts.