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Full name: Hà Đức Cương First name: Cương Surname: Hà Đức Date of birth: 05.02.1988 Country of birth: Vietnam
730/3 Kha Van Can, Linh Dong ward,Thu Duc district, Ho Chi Minh city. Tel: 01676 721 747 Email: haduccuonguce@gmail.com
EDUCATION
COMPUTER SKILL
AWARDS / SCHOLARSHIP
Master of Sustainable Architecture in Politecnico di Milano university Overall GPA: 110/110 Piacenza, Italy. (2013-2015)
AutoCAD............ (Intermediate) Photoshop ......... (Intermediate) Revit Architecture. (Intermediate) Illustrator......... (Basic) Microsoft Office.... (Intermediate)
Bachelor of Architecture and Urban planning in National university of Civil Engineering (NUCE) Overall GPA: 3.48/4 (Ranking: 1st - highest in the faculty) Hanoi, Vietnam. (2007-2012)
CERTIFICATIONS
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 Professional Certification Certification ID: 41233
Gold scholarship / Granted by Politecnico di Milano. Milano, Italy (2013) Vietnam Italy Steel scholarship (VIS) for excellent study results in the graduation course (2012) “Eco Design” / Second Prize / Dulux Akzo Nobel Vietnam (2010) Euro Window Scholarship for students with excellent academic performance (2009)
Intern Architect at Junya.Ishigami + Associates Tokyo, Japan. (Jan 2016 - March 2016) Assistant Architect at ARCART Company limited Hanoi, Vietnam. (Mar 2013 - Aug 2013) Editor / Translator at Architecture website www.kientruc.eu (Nov 2012 - Aug 2013)
Autodesk Building Performance Analysis Certification(BPA) Softwares:Green Building Studio Flow Design
LANGUAGE English (fluent, IELTS 6.5) Vietnamese (native) Italian (modest)
EXHIBITION RI-Formare Among 6 selected student projects to exhibit at La Trienale museum, Milano (16th, July 2014 - 31st, August 2014)
WHERE DOES THE STORY BEGIN ? Everything started in Paris when I was visiting villa Savoye designed by Le Corbusier, a revolutionary and visionary Swiss architect. I enjoyed walking along the architecture promenade and experiencing its space. When I was about to finish my architecture walk which ended at the terrace top, what I saw was unforgettable and left a deep impression: there was a rectangular opening on the wall facing the back yard of the villa. It was like a painting created by nature. I was mesmerized watching the landscape through this opening. It seemed that it was not there for the sake of it. Later, the tour guide explained that Le Corbusier before becoming an architect, used to be an artist, so he placed an opening with landscape portion to observe the back yard. Yes, this time, he let the nature to render her own master piece. Personally I think, this is a nice lesson for designers, especially architects to perceive the environment, how we define it is really fundamental, " is it landscape or territory ? ". The term "landscape" its self is even controversial when it is being defined in different ways. For me, it is not important what the landscape is composed of, but the way we perceive, it tells who we are: " many people look but only a few see" Top right: Villa Savoye, Le Corbusier,1931 Top left: Villa le Lac, by Le Corbusier, 1923, in Corseaux, Switzerland Bottom left: Jeremy Clarkson inside his truck on Top Gear series in Cambodia Bottom right: Japanese traditional house
WHAT DO I WANT TO ACHIEVE IN THIS PROJECT ? WHY DO I DO IT ? WHAT IS MY MESSAGE ? I want to install the project in my homeland, at my favourite place where I find myself relaxed, released in wild nature. It is about my love for my homeland where I was born. I have a strong attachment for this land, which is a beautiful place. When fully installed, it will be permanently there, people and visitors might walk by and see the message nearby. I hope that people and myself will love and appreciate this land more and more and with a growing love, we will look after our land more than we say we do. From Askley Jackson. " No one man should own a mountain, we are only the keepers of Mother Earth. It is not ours, but for the next generation in life to follow on." WHAT IS MY CONCEPT ? HOW DID I DO IT ? It is very simple, take a seat and watch the landscape through a frame ! I painted a chair and a frame in white and I got two of my friends to help me installing the things at the expected place. For the first phase of the project, I was not able to construct the frame on site. So the bigger frame was done by computer, sorry for that. But for the second phase, I would like to " grow" the frame, the chair (s) on site. I want it to be strong and durable in order to stay there as long as possible for people to enjoy.
TOOLS I found an old frame and an old chair in my parent's house, the only thing I bought was a bottle of white spray paint. The colour white presents purity and reflects in outstanding manner in the tropical nature which is a vibrant green all year round.
We set up the frame at desired place
Figure 1: position 1
Figure 2: position 2
It was much more interesting with the human scale.
A seat makes it more enjoyable.