Faculty of Design

Illustration

Yani Feng

The Farming Architect

A portrait illustration of Chinese urban planner and architect Yu Kongjian, who championed the "sponge city" concept to solve urban flooding in China. The illustration addresses his unique upbringing from a farming family that inspired his architectural methodology.

“To address flash floods, urban design thinker Yu Kongjian turned to Chinese farming techniques to create “sponge cities”—nature-based solutions that absorb excessive rainfall. ”