Di fang portfolio 2.0 by Di Fang

PORTFOLIO DI FANG

SELECTED WORKS 2013-2016

PROJECTSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; LOCATIONS & TOPICS

AFFORDABLE HOUSING

DESIGN AS POLITICS

MIGRATION 2

POST-CONFLICT URBAN PLANNING

PARTICIPAT DESIGN

TORY

| 2009: CHONGQING | VIII. Page 52

| 2013 XIAMEN | VIII. Page 50

REGENERATION

STREET PROFILE DESIGN

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE 3

URBAN VILLAGE

DI FANG A critical thinker who focuses on urban issues with an interest in multiple disciplines. A doer who is willing to take on challenges with a dedicated attitude.

EDUCATION 2013.08 — 2015.06 Delft Netherlands

Delft University of Technology

2008.09 — 2013.08 Chongqing China

Chongqing University

Master of Science (MSc) Urbanism

• Master Thesis: Exploring a sustainable way of regenerating urban villages in Shenzhen,China (Design as Politics) • Graduated with 8/10 overall, and 8.5/10 for master thesis

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Architecture & Urban planning

• Graduated as Top 5 student out of 60 people in urbanism track.

WORKING EXPERIENCE 2015.07 — Present Rotterdam Netherlands

Urban designer @ Cityförster • Tasks:

http://www.cityfoerster.net/ Project managing, Conceptual designing, Technical drawing, Diagram designing, Graphic designing, Presentation making, Internal & External coordination

• Projects: ‘Build back better-Supporting Spatial Planning in Gaza’, UN Habitat (delivered) ‘Building Facade Painting Design,’ Durrës Albania (implemented) ‘Strategic Planning and Pilot Projects’, Saranda, Albania (delivered) ‘Masterplan of Vietnam Machinery Irrigation college’, HCMC Vietnam (delivered) 2015.11 —2015.12 Shenzhen China

Exhibition @ Shenzhen Hongkong Biennale

http://mycity.strikingly.com/

• Tasks: Researching, Exhibiting, Publishing • Exhibition: ‘New Utopia: The Babel Village’ in My City-Retumu Thematic Pavilion • Publication: <Gangxia Rashomon> 4

2015.03 —2015.06 Amsterdam Netherlands

2014.07 Singapore

Part-time designer @ Play the City

http://www.playthecity.nl/ • Tasks: Developing game rules, Operating game sessions, Graphic designing, Photography • Projects: Play Oosterwold Play Noord

Presenter @ Vertical Cities Asia International Competition • Tasks: Presenting, Exhibiting, Debating • Result: 2nd Prize of the competition

2014.05 — 2015.08 Delft Netherlands

Social media manager @ Webcare Team of TU Delft

2013.01 —2013.08 Chongqing China

Curator Assistant @ Organhaus Art Space

2013.12 —2013.01 Guangzhou China

Editor @ Times Museum http://www.timesmuseum.org/

• Tasks: Assisting in marketing for TU Delft on Chinese social media platform http://organhaus.weebly.com/ • Tasks: Assisting international artists’ workshops, writing and translating report

• Tasks: Layout design, Illustration design • Publication: <Ten Years History of Private Art Gallery in China>

AWARDS & EXHIBITIONS 2015

‘New Utopia: The Babel Village’, exhibited on BI-CITY Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, China

2014 2013

‘Aamchi Mumbai: Fundamentals’, 2nd prize of Vertical Cities Asia International Competition ‘Regeneration of Harbour’, Entry of RIBA international prize

2013

‘Revitalization of Traditional Ferry Transport in Chongqing’, 2nd prize of Students Social Survey Competition, China

2012 2010-2013

‘Conceptual Design: A Bridge of Consumerism’, Merit Prize of UA Concept Design Scholarship of Chongqing University, awarded to top 3 students every year

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

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5 km Wadi Gaza

Al Shoka

Khuza’a

5 km 3 mi

KEYWORDS: post-conflict, street profile, affordable housing

I. BUILD BACK BETTER(UN Habitat) SUPPORTING SPATIAL PLANNING IN GAZA

RESILIENT STREET NETWORK DEVELOPMENT IN KHUZA’A Location: Gaza strip Scale: Urban Planning Type: UN Habitat professional project (delivered) Team:LOLA landscape architects, lolaweb.nl Freem open architecture, freem.eu CITYFÖRSTER Rotterdam, cityfoerster.net Maat Ontwerpers, maatontwerpers.be Date: 2016.01-2016.10 Task: Project managing Diagram designing Conceptual designing Graphic designing Technical drawing Presentation making Internal & External coordination

BACKGROUND Recently, UN-Habitat has taken the initiative to show that a participatory design approach can work in post-conflict situations and has assembled a local team of planners (NTSC) to support the Khuza’a municipality in drafting a master plan, under the motto ‘Build Back Better’. Working in a challenging context, with limited logistics and resources, the team of international experts are helping the local partners develop a new and innovative approach to urban reconstruction that could be tested in Khuza’a and replicated in other areas(Wadi Gaza & Al Shoka) in Gaza.

http://unhabitat.org/building-back-better-supporting-spatial-planning-in-gazas-khuzaa-municipality/?noredirect=en_US 6

PARTICIPATORY URBAN PLANNING In Khuzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a the need of participatory and action planning is clear. An intensive participatory process is part ofplanning the reconstruction of the town.In the next chapter we are exploring innovative engaging methods of participatory planning in the implementation fase - which are found more up in the participation ladder- to get even more public support, inclusive urban projects and active citizens. Through this multiple track an urban vision, co-design projects and placemaking could be created; at different scales, in different time spans with different degrees of participation. Along the way more trust and engagement will be created by inviting people to change their living environments themselves and by showing the process. Towards an inclusive, vibrant and prosperous Khuzaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a.

WASTED PRECIPITATION

I. STREET WITH MULTIFUNCTION Due to the constraints of an existing urban fabric, it will always be difficult to implement the ideal street profile. Regulations therefore should stay flexible and find ways to balance future and current needs. On one hand smart solutions like sharing of space or variation in the profile along the trajectory can increase the capacity even of a narrow profile. On the other hand, reservations for future use can improve the quality of life of the inhabitants by offering temporary facilities or by allowing the private use for an additional transitional time although the property has already been claimed publicly.

LACK OF PUBLIC SPACE IN CURRENT SITUATION

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II. STREET DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME

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Our proposal & main contribution explores how we can develop streets in small steps to follow the needs of today, but be prepared for the future while keeping the investments we make in them. The investments should be made in a smart way and contribute to a bigger picture that will form over time. Our ambition is to provide ideas and principles for a long-term, sustainable and people focused development.

I. STREET WITH MULTIFUCTION Panoramic road The possible future ring road can serve as a promenade in the meantime, allowing for a relaxed stroll along the fields. 6.00

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Play street The profiles of neighbourhood roads can be used as shared space by all participants if the speed of the cars is reduced to 5-7km/h. 4.50 6.50

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PILOT PROJECT: STREET DEVELOPMENT OVER TIME Existing situation • Narrow sidewalk • No setback for shops • No drainage system • No street light 1.50

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Wider sidewalk Frontage area for commerce Water collection Hanging street lights Pocket parks Flower pots New buildings

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Durres

KEYWORDS: urban regeneration, facade design, street 40 km

II. DURRES HARBOUR ROAD FACADE DESIGN 20 mi

Location: Durres, Albania Scale: Urban Design Type: Professional project (implemented) Team: Martin Sobota Di Fang Francisco Monforte Task: Conceptual design, Technical drawing, Diagram design Presentation making Date: 2016.01-2016.06

BACKGROUND Durres, is the second largest city and a municipality of Albania. It is one of the most ancient and economically significant cities of Albania. As Albania regards tourism as a rising national industry, cities prioritizes urban environment improvement to strengthen their competitiveness. The assignment is generated in this context, aims to improve the image of Durres through redesigning buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; facades.

ASSIGNMENT The assignment is to renew the buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; facade along 1km harbour road segment, which connects Durres city centre and the main city entrance. It involves more than 20 buildings of different styles and ages, which calls for a design that can unify the their facades while keeping the original diversities.

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CONCEPT We got inspired by an image of old Durres landscape, and translated the flat illustration into halftone pattern. Dots of different sizes and colours are the basic elements, they are designed to be painted with multiple coloured layers. This aims an elegant fading process of the facades in future years. A grid of dots is carefully designed with the considered building dimensions, which helps to ensure the quality of implementation.

Entrance to Durres

Inspiration: image of old Durres

HALF-TONE PAINTING DESIGN FOR THE WHOLE FACADE

An example of the ‘dots & grid’ system Dx

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Layered painting techniques

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Photos by Francisco Monforte

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40 km

Amsterdam

KEYWORDS: participatory design, city games, workshop

III. PLAY THE CITY Location: Amsterdam, NL Scale: Urban Design Type: Workshop organization Team: Ekim Tan Di Fang Tanya Chandra Task: Developing game rules Operating game sessions Graphic designing Photography Date: 2015.03-2015.06

BACKGROUND â&#x20AC;&#x153;Play the City uses gaming to engage multiple stakeholders in resolving complex urban challenges. Play the City designs physical games as a method for collaborative decision making and conflict resolution. We use gaming as a problem-solving method bringing top down decision makers together with bottom up stakeholders. In the accessible environment of games, freed from the jargons, various ideas, plans and projects meet, conflict and collaborate towards negotiated outcomes.â&#x20AC;? PLAY THE CITY http://www.playthecity.nl/ 18

Model making

Game session, Photo by Di Fang

40 km Shenzhen

KEYWORDS: affordable housing, regeneration, migration, urban village

IV. NEW UTOPIA: THE BABEL VILLAGE

EXPLORING A SUSTAINABLE WAY OF REGENERATING URBAN VILLAGES Exhibited in 2015 BI-CITY Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, China Location: Shenzhen, China Scale: Urban Design Type: Academic (Master Thesis) Mentor: Wouter Vanstiphout Leo van den Burg In support of: Design as Politics Date: 2014.09-2015.06

WHAT IS UTOPIA? In Utopia we see no invocation of a deus ex machina, nor any wishing away of the deficiencies of man or nature. Systems have to be devised whereby men will be able to offset their own continuing wickedness and cope with the deficiencies of nature…. The Utopia idealises not man nor nature but organization….As a mode, or type, of ideal society, utopia assumes the imperfection of man and nature and the validity of institutional and organisational means of producing stable and ordered societies. (The history of Utopia, J.C.Davis)

Yeah, and we have a new intern coming for our workshop.

Hi Fang, letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prepare for the next experiment.

Have a nice day! Yeah, I got inspired and want to finish this painting today.

Hi Kun, already started working?

No problem! I can have a look at your broken bike

Hey Wang, here is your bike, thank you for borrowing me.

Hi, have a nice day! Hi doctor Li, can you come by please? My kid is sick.

Hi morning! Going to work? Morning! Today is my duty day for the community.

Oh ok, once I finish my breakfast!

BACKGROUND “Urban villages (Chinese: cheng-

zhongcun; literally: “village in city”) are villages that appear on both the outskirts and the downtown segments of major Chinese cities, including Beijing, Shenzhen and Guangzhou. They are surrounded by skyscrapers, transportation infrastructures, and other modern urban constructions. Urban villages are a unique phenomenon that formed part of China’s urbanization efforts.

Before 1980

Urban villages are commonly inhabited by the poor and transient, and as such they are associated with squalor, overcrowding and social problems. However, they are also among the liveliest areas in some cities and are notable for affording economic opportunity to newcomers to the city.

1990

There are 5 million people living in 241 urban villages in Shenzhen. Urban villages provide cheap housing, lively commercials, can reached by public transport easily. Especially when there are far less than enough public housing, 70% of migrants choose to live in urban villages. 2000

The forming mechanism of urban villages

2015

5 million people living in 241 urban villages in Shenzhen. 70% of migrants choose to live in urban villages. 23

Distribution of population and location of urban villages

PROBLEM STATEMENT Urban villages in Shenzhen provide housing for 60% migrant workers, however all the current redevelopment plans concerning urban villages are not sustainable at the moment:

Shenzhen Stock Exchange

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1. Mostly ignore the tenants’ benefits, low income migrant workers are forced to move to suburb; 2. Focus on economic compensation for households but not enough social and cultural care; 3. Blindly urbanizes urban villages without considering traditional village culture.

Shenzhen Civic Square

Convention Center

DESIGN GOAL Build up a tool box consists of “Spatial design“ and “Strategy design” for the long term dynamic redeveloping process. Develop a more sustainable way of redeveloping urban villages to balance benefits from different groups (Households, tenants, government, developers), while securing the value of urban villages culturally, socially and spatially.

To Hongkong Site: Gangxia urban village Landmark Metro station 24

CONCEPT

Lianhuashan Park

Babel The story of the city of Babel is recorded in Genesis 11:1-9. Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar. People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they would not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called Babel.

vic Center

Gangxia Village

New-Babel The story of the village of Babel is recorded in Utopia Manifesto 26:1-5. Everyone in the village spoke different dialects. More than 95% of them migrated here from somewhere else. People there sought to cooperate and build the community and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves. People move out and in, new members keep joining during the building process, thus the tower is never finished, so as the whole village. The village is called Babel.

WALL

MASTER PLAN OF BABEL VILLAGE

The wall declares the autonomy of Babel village. AUTONOMY

TOWER OF BABEL The babel tower is a think tank that stimulate knowledge sharing. SHARING

MOVABLE LIVING CUBE

FREEDOM The living cube, transformed from Shipping container, allows free movement.

COMMUNITY CENTRE COOPERATION

The community centre shared by neighbours encourages cooperation.

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The left part of the village is built based on its original fabric. The new morphology should learn from traditional urban village and keep the humane scale of streets, lively commerce on the ground floor, the height of the buildings, and the cozy atmosphere. As cooperation is emphasized as a priority in Babel village, the whole village is divided into smaller units and they are all equipped with common space and facilities, which aim to facilitate social interaction and cooperation between neighbours. For the right part, basically, it is micro regeneration that clean up dense buildings and create quality public space and hierarchy of streets.

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LEFT PART: VILLAGE OF THE FUTURE

COMMUNITY CENTRE - PUBLIC SERVICE

STREET LIFE - WAY TO THE BABEL TOWER

COMMUNITY CENTRE - PUBLIC SPACE

STREET LIFE - WAY TO THE WALL

THE RIGHT PART: VILLAGE OF THE HISTORY

40 km

Rotterdam

KEYWORDS: participatory urban design

V. ROTTERDAM STADMAKERSCONGRES WORKSHOP Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Type: 1 Day Workshop Team: Di Fang Joan Kwong Juste Stefanovič Krzysztof Pydo Tasks: Strategic designing Graphic designing Text writing Date: 2014.12

BACKGROUND The question raised in the “The city makers Congress 2014” is: Beyond thinking in schedules as Bottom-Up and Top Down they propose connectivity: how to increase the level and quality of communication and exchange between formal and informal, large and small, strategic and commonplace? The congress invites municipality officers, investors, architects/urban designers and citizens to talk about several urban development projects in Rotterdam. Through this round-table discussion, we heard fresh opinions from different sides, which brought our understandings of those well-known projects to a higher level. Based on the concerns from different groups, we were asked to draw out a future vision for Rotterdam Laurenskerk area.

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EXISTING SITUATION + STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWING

“I come from Rotterdam Events&Festival

Association, an organization supported by government to select and assist all events in Rotterdam. We are closely linked with utilization of public space, and all urban&architecture development in Rotterdam centre will influence our work as well. Thus, we need connections.”

“Something is wrong with this street. It is

such a wide street but nobody is using it. It is cold and boring. Instead of intermediary company and phoen company, local residents will care more about the environment and make more effort to the neighbourhood. That’s why I bought several buildings here and try to change the functions of them.”

“In a long time, Rotterdam centre is

regarded as an unattractive place. People are moving out from Rotterdam centre and offices are occupying the centre. We want Rotterdam centre to have a better atomosphere and we think more residents will help. Thus strategically we are going to add more housing in Rotterdam centre in future development.”

“Now we already have this old building

transformed into one of our faculties. However, more students’ apartments nearby is needed. And in a long term, we want to move our university more into the centre area. More students will help to improve the spatial quality of this area.”

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PHASE 1: 2017 VISION - CONNECTING •

A. Urban Surfing Pool

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A. Reuse the water pool behind Marthal and turn it into surfing pool. B. Add more housing function into office buildings. C. Add more retails, restaurants and cafes in the ground floor.

C. Retails&Coffee on Ground Floor B. More Residential

PHASE 2: 2021 VISION - OPTIMIZING • • •

A. Develop the surfing pool and combine commercial with it. B. Add more housing into office buildings. C. With more residents, more services and commercial function are demanded. Thus the area is activated.

A. Playground for kids

B. Lively shopping street

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D. Restaurant+cafe

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A. Build up more student apartments using Markhal as a prototype to strengthen Rotterdam’s label “city of iconic buildings” B. By adding buildings on the wide street, the spatial aspect will also be changed in the street. Narrower and shorter walking street makes the area more cohensive.

B. Markthal 3.0

A. Markthal 2.0

100 km Mumbai

KEYWORDS: affordable housing, urban densification, infrastructure

VI. VERTICAL CITIES ASIA

‘EVERYONE CONNECTS ------ AAMCHI MUMBAI: FUNDAMENTALS’ Location: Mumbai, India Type: International student competition (2nd prize) Mentor: Mitesh Dixit Ulf Hackauf Team: Akshey Krishna Venkatesh - India Betül Gürcan - Netherlands Di Fang - China Karolis Macernis - Lithuania Povilas Daugis - Lithuania Tanya Chandra - India Zivile Simkute - Lithuania Date:

2014.03 - 2014.06

COMPETITION BRIEF Every year a one square kilometre territory has been the subject of the competition. This area has to house 100,000 people living and working. . This new environment will have a full slate of live-work-play provisions, with the residential component making up to 50% of the total floor space. In the fourth of this series of competitions, the competition site is located in Mumbai, India with the theme “Everyone Connects”. “Everyone connects” is a wide and provocative challenge. It demands a holistic and integrated approach. “Connect” is interpreted extensively to mean the following: Connect to clean energy, Connect to clean water, Connect to fresh air, Connect to transport efficiency, Connect to work, learn, live and play opportunities, Connect to communities, In other words, “Connect” to livability. 38

SITE Mumbai is facing the challenges of extreme urban growth and development. The site is located within the Eastern side of the city of Mumbai peninsular (including the dockyards and a portion of an adjacent urban district). Participating teams are to select their site of one square kilometre within the larger territory.

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BANDRA

MAHIM

MUMBAI

DADAR

CHEMBUR

WADALA

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GIRGAON

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COLABA

PROBLEMS Shortage of open space The average open area/person in Mumbai is 4.5 sqm/person.

Shortage of living area

The average living area/person in Mumbai is less than 1/5 of most standards in the world.

Fanatic real estate

Strict building code

Developers make nice renderings for Strict building code set large setback selling premium apartments while in for towers which leads to large area of reality projects are completely detached fenced private gardens. from the context.

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CHINA

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AMBITION Facing the status quo and the challenge of future development, we want to fix the hard infrastructure and at the same time preserve the soft - embrace the qualities of the city. Hard infrastructure refers to large physical networks necessary for the functioning of a modern industrial nation. In our project, we mainly address transport infrastructure, as it is the fundamental of all other infrastructure/service network. A better mobility will help to reduce energy consumption. Clear hierarchy of streets will help building the distribution of water and waste network. Soft infrastructure refers to all the institutions which are required to maintain the economic, health, and cultural and social standards of a country. 40

AamchiMumbai FUNDAMENTALS

STREET

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MASTER PLAN We provide a better fundamental network which helps to improve living environment but also leave some space for people to shape the city by themselves. Waterfront is opened up while we introduce the sea-link, which increase the connectivity within and without the site. 43

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New York

KEYWORDS: street network, infrastructure

VII. LEVIATHAN, AN INDEX FOR METROPOLITAN LIFE A VISION OF NEW YORK 42ND STREET Location: New York Type: International competition Team: Andrea Migotto Di Fang Task: Conceptual designing Mapping Axonometric drawing Date: 2014.03 - 2014.05

COMPETITION BRIEF This international competition aims to rethink and redesign one of the most iconic streets in the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;42nd street in Midtown Manhattan. Remaking this dense live/work transportation corridor into a more livable space 24/7 will transform New York City at its core and become a model for major urban thoroughfares worldwide. The aim of this competition is to increase interest in and gain support for the vision42 initiative for a river-to-river auto-free light rail boulevard on 42nd Street. The competition is intended to encourage architects, planners, and urban designers from around the world to develop creative proposals for remaking this important but noisy, traffic-clogged street into an enhanced, world-class pedestrian environment that is served by a high-quality, low-floor, modern surface light rail tram.

METHOD We took the brief of the competition and the will to transform the 42nd street in a traffic free avenue as challenge and starting point to envision a possible architectural development of New York. Instead of designing the light railway as innocent infrastructure for logistics, we wanted to highlight the revolutionary essence present within this possibility. In our proposal the infrastructure becomes a visible and active logic that act within the intense urban fabric of Manhattan, by working on its formal recognizable feature in a tissue of mixed usage, unconscious flows and ordinary forms, and its ambiguous further possibilities. An heavy but magnificent Leviathan laid down on the Manhattan grid.

GRAND CENTRAL TIME SQUARE

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P. A. BUS TERMINAL

BRYANT PARK

NEW YORK LIBRARY

FERRY TERMINAL JAVITS CENTRE HERALD SQUARE

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A: TRAIN STATION & COMMERCIAL STREET NEXT TO BRYANT PARK AND NEW YORK LIBRARY

Train station

3rd layer: Pedestrian terrace 2nd layer: Metro rails Ground floor: Commerce & Leisurement

Shops for street vendors

Street â&#x20AC;&#x153;living roomâ&#x20AC;?

Pedestrian corridor

‘ Sluiseiland: A future stage of city ’, Gouda, The Netherlands (2013)

‘Revitalization of A Historical Harbour’, Xiamen, China (2012) Tools & Skills: Sketch Up, Hand drawing, Adobe Illustration & Photoshop

‘Kindergarten Design’, Chongqing, China (2010) Tools & Skills: Sketch Up,V-Ray, Adobe Photoshop

‘Infinite’, Bangkok, Thailand (2016)

‘Highland Fog’, Tagaytay, Philippines (2016) Oil painting

CONTACT ME: Address: Vondelweg 132

3031 PW, Rotterdam E-mail: D.fang1991@gmail.com Tel: +31(0)636485629

Linkedin:https://cn.linkedin.com/pub/di-fang/64/857/a79