Resurface Dewitt

The Design of our project aims to create a new language for the existing town of Dewitt in upstate New York. Our project is in Dewitt, Upstate NY. Our site is located at the intersection of Eerie blvd and E genesee street, which is an important transportation center in the town of dewitt. Our design proposal not only intend to form new context for the urban civillization but also introduce and intergrate unique learning experience and lifrstyle to the existing Dewitt culture.

Our vision of the project is to facilitate the interactions between neighborhoods and local communities. weaving a friendly and inclusive envirnment. While diverse learning activities onsite helps to build a stronger connection between people, we hope to provide comfortable spaces for poeple to assemble at the same time.

Collaborated with Jiwei Wang Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, V-ray

According to our research, we figured out that the main way that people travel around our site is through vehicles, and also the original site arrangement between different blocks in our site and high car speed makes it hard for people to walk around the site. Therefore, we decided to re- design our site landscape and combine our program to create an urban park, which allows people to be safe and enjoy different landscape experiences through walking, biking and driving along the site.

For our program, we have city hall, library and other different kinds of on site activities. We decided to build a library because according to our site research, most of the people in the area have a relatively higher education level, so we believe the library will be a place to attract and gather people to increase social interactions.

However, other than the ordinary library, people can only read books inside. We want our library to create a new-life style for the local residents. It is also found in our site research that other than the majority of adults, there are also great numbers of elders and children .So in our library, we design different programs for different ages of people. For example, for elders, we have an older disco, for adults, we have silent study rooms and basketball court, and for children we have a kids library and playground. And we also have club rooms, radio station, art crafting studio for all ages of people. As for the exterior activities of our site, we have canopy pavilions on top of the parking lot, which provide comfortable shaded spaces for people to walk below and also allow people to hold different events such as weekend markets or seasonal exhibitions.