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The mixed-use complex is one of the few recent office projects that allowed us to pursue a broader architectural investigation.
While adapting existing buildings to accommodate multiple programmes is not a new challenge, we were less interested in functional organisation than in understanding and sustaining the identity of the place. Rather than treating the site as an isolated object, the project approached it as part of a living built environment shaped by its history, spatial relationships, and everyday life.
Instead of limiting our observations to the project boundary, we examined the site as one layer within the larger urban organism of Hanoi. Over time, a single architectural compound had gradually fragmented into smaller courtyards, alleys, and buildings, producing a dense network that continues to evolve through adaptation and occupation. This process of subdivision—from compound to lane, from lane to smaller lanes, and even within individual houses—reveals the city's remarkable capacity for transformation.
Within this context, the proposal deliberately avoided imposing a dominant architectural form. Instead, architecture became an instrument for revealing and reinforcing the spatial relationships already embedded within the site. The intervention focused on strengthening connections between courtyards, passages, and nested alleys, allowing the project to engage with the wider urban structure rather than exist as an autonomous object.
Although the project could not be realised as originally conceived, it remains one of our most significant investigations into the relationship between architecture and the evolving life of the city. Whether built, altered, or left on paper, architectural projects continue to participate in the long process of making the city...
...a serie of urban elements has been used as parts of architecture. these are installed into that in order to emphasize the structure of “overlaping” idea, the status of “lanes inside lanes”, “streets over streets” becomes bolder. The appearance of add_on “hanging square” significantly has been representing the sense of publicity, besides feeding the hunger of spaces for functionality.the combination all of urban infrastructure symbols, including “tower of elevator”, “walking bridge”, “landscaping” into a range of “walk_thru” refers to the characteristic dynamic movement of metropolitan. as well as, they stand crisscrossing over a system of steel grid structure in a high density area also representing other rationality of city. the program combines multi elements together, but also remain the status of ambiguity in between ‘chaos” and “order”...
The mixed-use complex is one of the few recent office projects that allowed us to pursue a broader architectural investigation.
While adapting existing buildings to accommodate multiple programmes is not a new challenge, we were less interested in functional organisation than in understanding and sustaining the identity of the place. Rather than treating the site as an isolated object, the project approached it as part of a living built environment shaped by its history, spatial relationships, and everyday life.
Instead of limiting our observations to the project boundary, we examined the site as one layer within the larger urban organism of Hanoi. Over time, a single architectural compound had gradually fragmented into smaller courtyards, alleys, and buildings, producing a dense network that continues to evolve through adaptation and occupation. This process of subdivision—from compound to lane, from lane to smaller lanes, and even within individual houses—reveals the city's remarkable capacity for transformation.
Within this context, the proposal deliberately avoided imposing a dominant architectural form. Instead, architecture became an instrument for revealing and reinforcing the spatial relationships already embedded within the site. The intervention focused on strengthening connections between courtyards, passages, and nested alleys, allowing the project to engage with the wider urban structure rather than exist as an autonomous object.
Although the project could not be realised as originally conceived, it remains one of our most significant investigations into the relationship between architecture and the evolving life of the city. Whether built, altered, or left on paper, architectural projects continue to participate in the long process of making the city...
...a serie of urban elements has been used as parts of architecture. these are installed into that in order to emphasize the structure of “overlaping” idea, the status of “lanes inside lanes”, “streets over streets” becomes bolder. The appearance of add_on “hanging square” significantly has been representing the sense of publicity, besides feeding the hunger of spaces for functionality.the combination all of urban infrastructure symbols, including “tower of elevator”, “walking bridge”, “landscaping” into a range of “walk_thru” refers to the characteristic dynamic movement of metropolitan. as well as, they stand crisscrossing over a system of steel grid structure in a high density area also representing other rationality of city. the program combines multi elements together, but also remain the status of ambiguity in between ‘chaos” and “order”...
Tch
Function : Fnb centre + Gallery
Phase : Built&
Genre : Public
Area : 1200m2
Year : 2020
Location : Hanoi, Vietnam
Photo : ...
Function : Fnb centre + Gallery
Phase : Built&
Genre : Public
Area : 1200m2
Year : 2020
Location : Hanoi, Vietnam
Photo : ...