Di fang portfolio 20161120 by Di Fang

PORTFOLIO DI FANG

SELECTED WORKS 2013-2016

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

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING

DESIGN AS POLITICS

MIGRATION 2

POST-CONFLICT URBAN PLANNING

PARTICIPATORY DESIGN

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.

2015.03 —2015.06 Amsterdam Netherlands

2014.07 Singapore

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

WORKING EXPERIENCE 2015.07 — Present Rotterdam Netherlands

Part-time designer @ Play the City

Urban designer @ Cityförster

2015

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

• Tasks:

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

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)

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 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

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PARTICIPATORY URBAN PLANNING

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In Khuza’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

Wadi Gaza

Al Shoka

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.

Khuza’a

KEYWORDS: post-conflict, street profile, affordable housing

5 km 3 mi

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

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

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.

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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.

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The possible future ring road can serve as a promenade in the meantime, allowing for a relaxed stroll along the fields.

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MINIMAL PLOT WITH SUFFICIENT FARM LAND With an eye on a brighter future for Gaza we propose to define and subdivide the urban fabric to accommodate future densification, while allowing for small and large scale agricultural land at the moment. The expected population growth over the coming 15 years will not happen in a day and many, especially political circumstance can (and hopefully will) change. We therefore believe it is wise to expand the residential areas only very carefully and first use the available areas to a higher capacity.

Based on a grid of main street of 200m by 200m, the plots could be subdivided at approximately 100m length and 14m width. This would allow to build a simple house along the street, to which gradually layers can be added, depending on the income of the family. Behind the house would be 1 Dunum of arable land that can support a family. Two sides of the urban blocks are lined with minimum size plots and allow for incremental housing without arable land.

Optimal Optimal block size Minimal residential plot with sufficient farm block land for size a family Residential area A

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* *5120 floors=33,600 sqm 159.4(max. 159.4(max. 210m)210m) * 168=26,779.2 * 168=26,779.2 sqm sqmGFA: 34 GFA: houses 34 houses * 120 *sqm=4,080 120 sqm=4,080 sqm sqm GFA: 56 GFA: houses 56 houses *sqm=6,720 120 sqm=6,720 sqm sqm 13.5m 25 sqm/person * 5 floors=20,400 * 5 floors=20,400 sqm sqm * 5 floors=33,600 * 5 floors=33,600 sqm sqm

Houseto House 1 dunum is 1000 sqm, which is a suffcient farm land size feed a family

1 dunum=1000 sqm, which is a sufficient farm land size to feed a family. Street Street Farm land 12Farm land

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Capacity: Capacity: 33,600/25= 33,600/25= 1,3441,34 inh Farm Farm land=land= 9,7939,79 sqm

FAR=2 Density=80 inh./dunum

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Block Block size: Block GFA: 34 houses * 120 sqm=4,080 sqm size: size: 159.4(210m)*168m=26,779.2 sqm **sqm=4,080 5120 floors=20,400 sqm GFA: GFA: 159.4(max. 159.4(max. 210m)210m) * 168=26,779.2 * 168=26,779.2 sqm sqm GFA: GFA: 34 houses 34 houses * 120 sqm=4,080 sqm sqm 56 houses 56 houses * 120*sqm=6,720 120 sqm=6,72 sqm 25 sqm/person * 5 floors=20,400 * 5 floors=20,400 sqm sqm * 5 floors=33,600 * 5 floors=33,60 sqm Capacity: 20,400/25=816 inh. Phase 2Phase 2 Phase 3Phase 3 House House Farm land=17,322 sqm (25sqm/person) (25sqm/person) (25sqm/person) (25sqm/person) Street Street

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minimal frontage 12m

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Capacity: 33,600/25=1344 inh. Farm land=9,793 sqm (25sqm/person) (25sqm/person)

Capacity: Capacity: 20,400/25= 20,400/25= 816 inh. 816 inh. Farm land= Farm land= 17,33217,332 sqm sqm

Capacity: Capacity: 33,600/25= 33,600/25= 1,344 1,344 inh. inh. Farm land= Farm land= 9,793 9,793 sqm sqm

GFA: 90 houses * 120 sqm=10,800 sqm 5120 floors=54,000 GFA: 90 GFA: houses 90 houses * 120* *sqm=10,800 sqm=10,800 sqm sqm sqm 25 sqm/person * 5 floors=54,000 * 5 floors=54,000 sqm sqm Capacity: 54,000/25=2160 inh. (25sqm/person) (25sqm/person)

Capacity: Capacity: 54,000/25= 54,000/25= 2,160 2,160 inh. inh.

ASSIGNMENT

40 km

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. Durres

To waterfront boulevard

KEYWORDS: urban regeneration, facade design, street 40 km 20 mi

To harbour area 0

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II. DURRES HARBOUR ROAD FACADE DESIGN 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

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

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.

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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Photos by Francisco Monforte

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HCMC

KEYWORDS: sustainable architecture III. VOCATIONAL COLLEGE OF MACHINERY AND IRRIGATION Location: HCMC, Vietnam Scale: School masterplan Type: Professional project (delivered) Team: LOLA Landscape Cityfoerster - Martin Sobota Francisco Monforte Di Fang Task: Schematic design Technical drawing Graphc design Presentation making Date: 2016.01-2016.06

BACKGROUND The VCMI (Vocational School of Machinery and Irrigation) is located east of Ho Chi Minh City in Trang Bom district, Dong Nai province, one of the fastest growing and most productive areas of Vietnam. It is part of an urban corridor with a regional road, a railway a band of factories and a more informal mix of residential and commercial functions.

Natural ventilation

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Low cost maintenance

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Space for social interaction

The campus terrain is bordered by residential buildings on three sides, and by a public road on the east. This road is the main connection for the campus. Most students and teachers arrive at the campus from the north. 20

Social and urban principles

Construction guidelines 21

MASTERPLAN & PHASING

Ventilation

Phase 1 New Classrooms & Auditorium New Workshops

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Public House Phase 2

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40 km

Amsterdam

KEYWORDS: participatory design, city games, workshop IV. 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/ 26

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40 km Shenzhen

KEYWORDS: affordable housing, regeneration, migration, urban village V. 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

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

Hi Fang, let’s prepare for the next experiment.

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)

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 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.

Hi, have a nice day!

Oh ok, once I finish my breakfast!

BACKGROUND “Urban villages (Chinese: chengzhongcun; 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.

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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

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Distribution of population and location of urban villages

1st Babel village-Gangxia village So back in 2015, Gangxia village was selected as a pilot village to test a new system. It is located in the heart of Shenzhen. The land price is unsurprisingly high and the government wants to urbanize it into high-end community urgently.

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The babel village is a place for the new comers in the city, for those who are excluded from formal welfare system, who cannot afford a descend living place, who have no chance to speak out for their rights.

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We all know the story of Babel tower, however, my utopia is a sequel to the story. By building special rules, it tries to recall people’s conscious of cooperation and community memory. Opposite to the original Babel story, in Babel village people who spoke different dialects sought to cooperate and build the community and a tower together. During this process, the border between people dissolved, while the village becomes stronger.

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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:

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.

Shenzhen Stock Exchange Shenzhen Civic Center

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.

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DESIGN GOAL

Gangxia Village

Build up a tool box consists of “Spatial design“ and “Strategy design” for the long term dynamic redeveloping process.

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.

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 34

WALL

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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.

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MOVABLE LIVING CUBE

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

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SPATIAL STRATEGY

The community centre shared by neighbours encourages cooperation.

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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POLICIES & PRINCIPLES IN BABEL VILLAGE Past

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Before large scale of internal migration Current MIGRANTS

= Large scale of internal migration, lacking affordable housing

Future Utopia

After land expropriation, rent out apartments: 50Yuan/m2/month (average price of 2014)

-Collectivize private property -Shareholding system -Credit system

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Indoor Farming profit =120Yuan/m2/month

Community centre - public service

LEFT PART: VILLAGE OF THE FUTURE

STREET LIFE - WAY TO THE BABEL TOWER

LIVING CUBE

GENERATING PROCESS OF ONE UNIT Located 30 kilometres away from one of the busiest and fastest growing ports in the world, Babel village takes the advantage of those obsolete shipping boxes, which are cheaper, stronger and easier to be constructed as living cubes after refit.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between 2004 and 2008, the production amount of sailing shipping box is about 3 million, at the same time there are 1 million TEU boxes being obsoleted.â&#x20AC;?

Starting from a single living cube with 3*6 sqm, you can always expand it when you have more credits. Certain space for future expansion is reserved by designer when the unit is built.

Once one gets a cube, he can move to other urban villages under certain conditions. It makes the people movement between villages much easier and flexible. It also gives free choices for people.

18 sqm = 18*100 Credits = 900 hours work

WHY SHIPPING CONTAINER?

You can earn one living cube in 1 year by working 2 hours /Day.

Abundant Resource

Mobility

Module

Identification

HOW TO REFIT SHIPPING CONTAINER?

Registration

Pipe Laying

Window & Door 42

Customized Design 43

PROTOTYPE OF ONE UNIT

POSSIBILITIES OF APARTMENTS

15m

* 18 sqm indoor space, 3 sqm balcony per person minimal. 15m Balcony 1 p. apartment 2 p. apartment 3 p. apartment

15m

Community centre - public space

THE RIGHT PART: VILLAGE OF THE HISTORY

STREET LIFE - WAY TO THE WALL

Tower of Babel

Babel Union 2050 Babel village is only a start, it is a prototype to test a new system and explore new possibilities. In 2050, it successfully accomplishes a bigger Babel Union with other 17 Babel villages, all were transformed from former urban villages. It is a special zone with autonomy, an strong economic and political union.

2030--

2nd Phase of Hospital

2025-2030

Green House

1st Phase of Hospital Green House Science Lab Green House Craftmen Workshop

2020-2025

Artists Workshop

The Parliament Sports Centre Open Market

STRATEGIC PLANNING

40 km

Rotterdam

KEYWORDS: participatory urban design VI. 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

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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

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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.”

PHASE 1: 2017 VISION - CONNECTING A. Urban Surfing Pool

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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.”

• 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.

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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.”

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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.”

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

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PHASE 2: 2021 VISION - OPTIMIZING

PHASE 3: 2031 VISION - DENSIFYING

• 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. 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. Playground for kids

B. Lively shopping street

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D. Restaurant+cafe A. Markthal 2.0

SITE

100 km Mumbai

KEYWORDS: affordable housing, urban densification, infrastructure

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.

VII. VERTICAL CITIES ASIA ‘EVERYONE CONNECTS ------ AAMCHI MUMBAI: FUNDAMENTALS’ 2.8 km

2.9 km

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

KURLA

BANDRA

MAHIM

MUMBAI

DADAR

Date:

2014.03 - 2014.06

CHEMBUR

WADALA

WORLI

PAREL

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. 56

LOWER PAREL

NAVI MUMBAI

GIRGAON

FORT

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

AamchiMumbai FUNDAMENTALS

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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4,5 MUMBAI

CHINA

JAPAN

SWEDEN

GERMANY

DENMARK

STREET

busy streets

PROGRAMME

ANCHORING WATERFRONT

diverse urban fabric

street market SKYWALK

vibrant street

FLYOVER slums

waterfront

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. 58

INTER-CITY RING

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

FAR Distribution

Public Transport Network

Street Network

MASTER PLAN

Areas of Intervention

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. 60

METHOD

5 km

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.

New York

KEYWORDS: street network, infrastructure VIII. 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

GRAND CENTRAL

TIME SQUARE

P. A. BUS TERMINAL

BRYANT PARK

Date: 2014.03 - 2014.05 FERRY TERMINAL

COMPETITION BRIEF

U.N.HQTRs

NEW YORK LIBRARY

JAVITS CENTRE

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.

HERALD SQUARE

FERRY TERMINAL

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100m

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 “living room”

Pedestrian corridor

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

‘Infinite’, Bangkok, Thailand (2016)

CONTACT ME

E-mail: D.fang1991@gmail.com | Tel: +31(0)636485629

Maybe we are approaching a time of crisis in city life. But Invisible Cities is a dream growing out from the hearts of the cities that can not live. Calvino <Invisible Cities>

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Highland Fogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, Tagaytay, Philippines (2016) Oil painting