ABOUT US | 关于我们

Rudy and Baoyan is a husband-and-wife team — an architect and entrepreneur who are passionate about what they do. Through their international commercial projects undertaken through their parent firm Genesis Architects, they take joy in honing their skills and bringing excellence and creativity to the table. In 2014, however, they had an encounter in Africa that shaped how they view and use their talents and craft thereafter. Going to Mozambique to live for a season with the poorest of the poor transformed their hearts and refined their focus to desire to not only achieve architectural distinction, but to do so in order to meet the vast needs of the marginalised and the vulnerable around the world.

Rudy 和宝燕是一对夫妇团队,—位是建筑师，一位是企业家，他们都对自己的事业充满热情。通过他们的建筑设计公司承接的国际商业项目，他们乐于不断磨练自己的技能，并在工作中带来卓越与创造力。

然而，2014 年在非洲的一次经历深刻地改变了他们对自身才华与专业的看法与使用方式。那一年，他们前往莫桑比克，与最贫困的人群同住了一段时间，这段经历不仅改变了他们的心，也使他们的焦点更加明确：不只是追求建筑上的卓越，更是要以此回应全球无数被边缘化和脆弱群体的巨大需要。

What We Do

Living Oaks is a platform to raise awareness of the needs of the vulnerable around the world and share more about their ongoing projects to support them.

So far, some of the projects include building Africa's first oceanfront university in Mozambique: the first university in East Africa to have a full-fledged 75-hectare campus that allows students to pursue subjects such as marine biology and maritime studies, constructing 40 primary schools in war-torn Congo for over 300 children each, a school for blind children who have been abandoned and living under extreme poverty, and erecting an airstrip in an obscure village in Borneo, Indonesia to enable speedy medical evacuations for children living in orphanages and homes there. Beyond architectural expertise, they also run feeding, education, healthcare, employment and other sustainable programmes that have supported over 50,000 people in 10 nations.

In Ukraine, we’ve been a steadfast presence in the midst of one of the most devastating conflicts of our time. Since the war began, we’ve provided life-saving aid, rebuilt homes, and offered trauma care. We’ve delivered food to families in hiding, supported local churches, and equipped teams to care for the displaced.

Amid the destruction, we’ve witnessed extraordinary courage and resilience. This is not just relief work — it’s a movement of healing, restoration, and hope. Together with local partners, we’re not only rebuilding homes but lives, bringing light into places of darkness.

Living Oaks comes from the vision in Isaiah 61 — where brokenness is made whole, and ruins are restored. We are here to stand with those rebuilding, to see beauty rise from the ashes, and to show that even in the darkest times, hope never fades.

Rudy and Baoyan would love to connect with like-minded people who are passionate about what they do and scale up to do more, whether it is in terms of volunteers or other partnerships.