Hanoi Ad Hoc / Brochure by Hanoi Ad hoc

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Hanoi Ad Hoc 1.0 - Architecture, Factories and (Re)Tracing the Modern Dream of Recent Past Sep 2021 - Feb 2021

Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture

Chaire UNESCO en paysage urbain

HANOI AD HOC BROCHURE

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Hanoi Ad Hoc 1.0 - Architecture, Factories and (Re)Tracing the Modern Dream of Recent Past https://www.hanoiadhoc.com/

Table of contents

Introduction

About us

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Work in progress

Partners

Sponsors

1 Introduction

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What is Hanoi Ad Hoc ? Hanoi Ad Hoc is a multiannual, interdisciplinary research framework and design programme. Initiated by Arch. Mai Hung Trung and joined by four partners: Professor/Anthropologist Christina Schwenkel, Arch. Duc Le, Professor/Arch. Danielle Labbé and Professor/Geographer Sylvie Fanchette. The project’s title refers to its main purpose, focusing on the insight of tailored urban makings and dealing specifically with the contemporary urban issues of Hanoi. This design-oriented research will provocatively reconfigure the contemporary vision of the forgotten parts of Vietnamese modernist architecture and shed light on everyday urban banalities. The urbanscape of Hanoi is a mosaic pattern made of improvised pieces. Our “Ad hoc” research accentuates the current way of making, unmaking and remaking the city of Hanoi using “whatever is at hand” in order to conform with political, social and urban transformation. The Adhocism is visible from the urban to the architectural scale through adaptations of the urban fabric within a given condition and spatial appropriations on the sidewalk.The project attempts to examine its richness and how these improvised urban solutions permanently crystallised the cityscape over time. Our three main areas of research are to archive, theorise and provoke. The Hanoi Ad hoc initiative is based on an idea of a democratic and multicultural exchange forum where people from different disciplines will have the same opportunity to add to the conversation around city making. In an hypothetical ad hoc condition, an architect could perform as a writer, an artist as a builder or an anthropologist as a planner. Beyond a collection of historical facts, the final outputs of the project will be a catalog of inferences, a formal product of informal urban makings. A mosaic picture of Hanoi will be revealed when these series of ad hoc elements are brought together.

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Truong Tien Bridge (Source internet)

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Importance and Impact

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Hanoi’s urban landscape has been identified as a tremendous complexe palimpseste containing fundamental blueprints and records of the city’s evolution over thousands of years under turbulent political and social changes. Ad hoc architectures are the witnesses to both social and political activities as well as informal ways of adapting with formal regulations. The intriguing chaos is considered not only as a fundamental resource but also a source of inspiration for further study. Therefore, critical examinations, historical overviews and urban chronology are needed to enable us with the ability to decrypt Hanoi and its hidden urban artifacts that have durably influenced the relationship between people and the city. For many years, studies of the city and urban areas in Vietnam have had the tendency to be approached top-down. In doing so, researchers have overlooked numerous crucial ‘ad hoc’ aspects and situations of everyday lives. For this reason, organic urban conditions that arose from the city dwellers’ customs and spontaneous responses are often devalued and deemed by the local authority and media as unorganised and undesired. Subsequent urban policies and plannings are set out to eliminate these conditions, unintentionally damaging the urban fabric and fracturing local communities’ cultures. By setting up a research methodology that focuses on combining both a bottom-up and top-down point of view with a wide range of expertise from various studies, we hope to form a more holistic view of these urban conditions and contribute towards the policy-making process that directly influences the lives of urban dwellers under these conditions. In addition, with Vietnamese cities going through waves of capitalistic urbanisation, many “Urban Artifacts” (defined by architect and theorist Aldo Rossi as primary elements that contributed to the morphological and cultural evolution of the city) are quickly demolished and replaced with generic mega malls and residential towers. This situation is daunting given the fact that many of these urban artifacts, especially those constructed in the 20th century, are currently undocumented and not considered as heritage. At this rate of urban development, they are at high risk of being forgotten despite their significant places in history. The research aims to fill the role of archivist and, in doing so, aims to raise public awareness towards these often neglected artifacts. After yearly themed investigations have concluded, publications of relevant subject matters are expected to be produced. These publications will hopefully enrich the Vietnamese urban studies literature and contribute to the knowledge production and dissemination in Vietnam.

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Hanoi Aerial View (Source internet)

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Work division, Milestone and Outcomes

The research is designed to be yearly, based around a chosen theme based on the urgency of the subject matter. Team members’ prior research experience have also been taken into consideration. Research partners and collaborators met fortnightly prior to the start of the research year to plan the programme,discussing amongst each other, preparing applications for funding and setting up the communication strategy. For each themed research year, three primary activities are expected to take place: multidisciplinary research, collective field-work and formal publication. Multidisciplinary research serves as a platform for which data regarding the themed subjects consisting of existing literature, internet information and archived documents is processed, curated and produced. Collective on-site field work is a two-week activity where the three research teams will come together to Hanoi to conduct physical field work. This provides an opportunity for the teams to assess their off-site investigation, reflect on their progress and form research insight. This field work will culminate with a symposium where the research teams will present their progress and create an open dialogue for local scholars who are researching the same subject matter to interact with one another. The last and final activity will be the culmination of all collected information into a formal publication. This document will serve as the last milestone and concludes the year of research.

2021- Hanoi Ad Hoc 1.0 Architecture, Factories and (Re)Tracing the Modern Dream of Recent Past

2022 - Hanoi Ad Hoc 2.0 City’s Water (The Red River and lakes)

2023 - Hanoi Ad Hoc 3.0 House - Housing - Household - Hostel

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2024 - Hanoi Ad Hoc 4.0 Urban villages and their gates

2025 - Hanoi Ad Hoc 5.0 Spirituality (Pagoda Church - Altar - Cemetery

2026 - Hanoi Ad Hoc 6.0 Chasing the pavement, (Sidewalk - Public spaces - Wet market)

2027 - Hanoi Ad Hoc 7.0 Monumentality ( Mega infrastructure - Monumental architecture)

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Archive Like many other localised conditions, Vietnam cities hold their histories within their material fabrics. As Rossi said, “the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory, it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory”. One can venture one step further to claim that Vietnamese cities are live museums without a curator - a kind of place where everyone can be both a participant and observer, contributing directly to the ever process-of-becoming.

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Though exciting and dynamic, this process-of-becoming, under the pressures of the market, politics, and occasionally social pragmatism, often leads to erasure of overlooked and underheard chronicled artifacts, buildings, objects, drawings, documents - physical manifestations of history that can be made national heritages. Identifying these underrepresented remnants, archiving them, and disseminating their relevant information is therefore significant in the course of prolonging their lifespans and cementing their places in history. As the first of the three major acts of Ad hoc, Archiving forms a foundational basis for the initiative’s other activities. For Ad hoc 1.0, focusing our investigative scope on Industrial factories built in Hanoi, literally and figuratively, we seek to collect the blueprint drawings for buildings of interest in order to construct a digital platform that will eventually be made available for the public, scholars, and researchers across the different disciplines. Internally, we, as researchers and collaborators, also attempt to redraw, analyze and explore forgotten modernism heritages and their mechanisms. Going beyond architecture, we also aim to engage these factories through a humanistic point of view by evaluating cultural artifacts, from songs to poems, that weave into the lives of people who operated within the proximity of these buildings. Photographic documentation that captures their everyday lives will also be effective tools to reveal the dynamic relationship between built environments and inhabitants, allowing us to carry out comparative studies against historical photos and archives, connecting the invisible dots across time and space to eventually shed light on our subject matter.

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Theorize As the second act of the program, Hanoi Adhoc aims to move away from conventional architectural descriptive works and focus on the open-ended act of theorizing. Crossing the boundary of the field, the act of theorizing seeks to interrogate the production of architecture in its specific context anthropological, social, historical, economic etc.

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Theory, in this case, overlaps slightly with but differs from the descriptive methodology of architectural history and from interpretative work of architectural criticism. As agreed by Nesbitt, theory distinguishes itself from these activities by suggesting an “alternative solution based on observation of the current state of the discipline, or offers a new thought paradigm for approaching the issue”. The act of theorizing, therefore, in this case, is highly speculative and anticipatory, operating on a different level of abstraction and keeping a critical distance from the tradition and applicatory professional practice. The act of theorizing comes in handy especially when Hanoi Ad hoc seeks to comprehend and situate Vietnamese orthodox and unorthodox urban morphology as well as architecture manifestation- subject matters that have gathered domestic and international attention in recent years, highlighted by recent publications of Christina Swenkel’s Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam and Mel Schenck’s Southern Vietnamese Modernist Architecture. Picking up from the first act of Archiving, much of the collected research materials will be dissected and undergone internal conversations and exchanges, allowing the team to reconstruct and theorize the hidden links between the country’s architectural’ morphology with international historical events and ideas circulating in the moments. These links will eventually provide the team with the investigative lens to assess interested urban artifacts in the contemporary Vietnamese urban scene as well as projecting their reciprocal relationships with other urban entities.

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Provoke Bridging the two divergent extremes of conventional design projects and often isolated researchs, Ha Noi Ad hoc aims to harness the best of both worlds by colliding the dynamic, experiential, coherent logic of architectural design with critical and theoretical interpretations of academic practice. Hanoi Ad Hoc 1.0

The outcome of such a collision is a conceptual platform on which theories formulated from the previous Act can be incubated and projected in the forms of domestic and urban visions, expressing real, utopian or even dystopian glimpse of Hanoi. As the third major Act, the exercise of Provocation enables Ha noi Ad Hoc to shake up the currently divided and limited creative practices that shape Vietnamese cities and to envision new – looser, lighter, softer, quicker – ways of projecting alternative urban worlds, bringing new ideas to the decision-making table and captivating the wider imagination and possibility of the public. As an autonomous practice, Provocation can serve as social critiques and conjectures, contradictory concepts and formal anomalies, proto-theories and designs, or other ways to visually capture ideas-in-the-making. At the end of the year research, these provocations, envisioned by the research team and potentially the public, will be condensed into a series of annual publications that explores the evolving potential of urban banalities and these will serve as references for future architectural, urban, and social practice.

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2 About us

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MAI Hung Trung // Founder of Hanoi Ad hoc, Atelier M32, FR Paris based architect, founder of atelier M32 and Hanoi Ad Hoc. Graduated with honour from ENSA Paris Malaquais, France and Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Germany, Trung has always been fascinated by the urban chaos and banalities that he considered as indispensable catalysts intriguing fundamental urban changes. His works focus on devising urban renewal strategies for post-industrial contexts and defining modern vernacular architecture and urban patterns. His investigation fields range from rural villages in Vietnam to European shrinking cities and hinterlands. Trung is the recipient and nominee of numerous international awards and competitions including Europan 15 / Productive City 2, World Architectural Festival 2018, Ashui Awards 2020 and 2018, Spec GoGreen 2017, ASA International Competition 2015 Density/dense city. In 2018, Trung was selected by the Vietnamese government as one of the hundred young pioneers and a member of the Vietnam Innovation Network. https://www.atelierm32.com/

Danielle LABBÉ // Université de Montréal Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South Danielle Labbé is a trained architect and associate professor of urban planning at the Université de Montréal (Canada) where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Urbanisation in the Global South. Her research focuses on the inter-relations between the production and appropriation of urban space in Hanoi. She uses a combination of historical, process-oriented and social agency perspectives to explore the encounters between state intentions, governing practices, and everyday life during the urbanisation process. While primarily focused on Vietnam, her research contributes to theoretical debates about state-society relations, urban governance and regulatory informality in the fields of urban planning, human geography and urban anthropology.

Prof.Christina SCHWENKEL // University of California, Riverside, US

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Christina SCHWENKEL is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside and former director of the programme in Southeast Asian Studies (SEATRiP). She is co-editor of the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and author of the recent book, Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam (Duke University Press, 2020). Christina has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Vietnam on global technology transfers and postwar reconstruction of urban infrastructure. Her first book, The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (Indiana UNiversity Press 2009), examines historical knowledge production and the geopolitics of commemoration. Her more recent publications have focused on Cold War technopolitics and socialist circulations of urban planning knowledge and architectural models between Vietnam and East Germany. https://christinaschwenkel.com

Duc LE // CO-NX, Oxford Brookes University, UK Duc is a practicing architect and independent researcher in London. Graduated from the Manchester School of Architecture and the Architectural Association (AA), Duc has been involved with a wide range of architectural projects in Vietnam, Russia and the United Kingdom. He is also an Associate Lecturer and Unit Design Master at Oxford Brookes University. Duc has previously served as Course tutor at Architectural Association Visiting School Tropicality 2016, as Visiting critic at Leicester School University, the AA and as a contributor to Plakat research platform. Duc engages architecture through both practice and theory. Duc is currently interested in historiography and the critique of Vietnamese Architectural modernism in the 20th century.

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Prof. Sylvie FANCHETTE // Director of Research at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement ), FR

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PhD in Geography from Paris 8 University, Prof. Sylvie Fanchette is authorised to supervise research. She has been conducting research at the IRD since 1993 and is a member of UMR Ceped. Her main research interests are the urbanisation process in densely populated rural areas and the conditions of population densification in the Nile and Red River Deltas. In Vietnam, she studies rural industrialisation and the peri-urbanisation process in the context of the Vietnamese capital’s metropolisation. She is the author of “Hanoi, a metropolis in the making” and “Discovering craft villages in Vietnam”. http://cessma.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?article945

Mila ROSENTHAL // Educator and advocate for human rights, human development and healthy planet Mila Rosenthal is an educator and advocate for human rights, human development, and a healthy planet. Her interest in rights and development is rooted in her experience in Vietnam undertaking ethnographic research on industrial work after the đổi mới economic opening. She comes to Hanoi Ad Hoc with immense gratitude to the women workers at the March 8th Textile Factory who for two years generously shared with her their lives and labor, which she documented for her PhD in social anthropology from the London School of Economics. Now based in New York City, along with her academic engagement teaching economic and social rights at Columbia University, she has held leadership roles in mission-driven international organizations. She manages research and advocacy at Sustainable Partners, Inc; most recently ran communications for the United Nations Development Programme; and before that led people and programs at Amnesty International, HealthRight International, and Concern Worldwide.

Emmanuel CERISE // Director PRX Vietnam

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An architect and urban planner working in Hanoi since 2012 as the director of the cooperation programme between Ile-de-France region (Paris Region) and the Hanoi people’s committee (PRX-Vietnam). This programme acts as a technical assistance to different departments of Hanoi, such as the Hanoi urban planning institute, Hanoi department of tourism, Hoan Kiem district, as well as the Hanoi department of environment, or department of planning and investment. Emmanuel Cerise organises training sessions on green planning, environmental planning, urban renewal, heritage preservation and waste and water management. He assists technical departments with satellite and eco towns planning, heritage survey, public space design and environmental policy audit. In parallel to his work, he is also involved in academic teaching and researching. Emmanuel is a researcher associated with IPRAUS (Paris Research Institute: Architectures, Urbanism, Society, AUSser n°3329 CNRS) and participates in teaching and workshops with Paris-Belleville school of Architecture and Hanoi University of Architecture.

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In collaboration with

Elise LUONG // Undecided Productions / Artistic Consultant

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Elise Luong was born in Australia and has been based in Hanoi since 2016. After graduating from a BFA in Photography and Video Arts in Belgium, she worked in a diverse range of Contemporary Art fields, engaging in project management and the curation of wildly unique spaces in Brussels, Berlin, and Montreal, showcasing visual, street art & new media. She currently works in the fields not only of contemporary art but also architecture and journalism, as a writer, editor, events manager, program curator and communication designer. As an artist manager, she is concerned with the development of production and dissemination opportunities for young creators. For the Hanoi Ad Hoc project, she will contribute with a reflection on art as an industry and labour as a product.

Francesco MONTRESOR // Architect Francesco is a Hanoi-based architect with focus interests being space, body, and territory. Having first arrived in Vietnam in 2004, Francesco worked as a Senior Architect at G8A Architects where he was employed since 2017. In parallel to his work as a designer, he has contributed and led research teams focusing on public housing problematics in Southeast Asia in general, and Hanoi in particular. Having graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (Switzerland, 2016) with the thesis entitled “Red River Delta; A Two Speed Productive Territory”. He studied the mechanisms of industrialisation and urbanisation in the Red River Delta (Vietnam), later developing it into an urban vision for the development of Hanoi and its surroundings. Francesco nourishes his professional experience by participating in workshops, residencies, training and MOOCs on topics often related to urban conditions in Southeast Asia.

PHAM Hong Viet & BUI Phuong Ngoc // GA6 Workshop, National University of Civil Engineering, VN Viet graduated from Politecnico di Milano (Italy, 2017) in urban planning and policy design. After coming back to Vietnam in 2017, he has been involved in urban planning and design consulting at architectural firms such as AVANT, 1+1>2. His recent focuses are on urban design, human ecology systems in planning and architecture as well as interconnected spaces in which people are the central nucleus. Before completing the Master of Science program in Architecture and Preservation at Politecnico di Milano - Italy, Ngoc has participated in both practice and research in Vietnam, Italy and the US. Her architectural practice and research focus on high-density urban design and preservation design towards a sustainable future. She craves to rediscover how humans understand their existence from heritage and deal with the environment we inhabit through built spaces. Currently, both Viet and Ngoc are working at the National University of Civil Engineering as a lecturer and a specialist; and co-founded the GA6 Workshop with other partners in 2020.

Federica Natalia ROSATI Federica Natalia is a PhD candidate at Université Libre de Bruxelles and Université de Liège, where she is investigating the access of water and sanitation services in the urban South. She holds a Master in Architecture at Ferrara University and a Master in International Cooperation at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) in Milan. Her main interests span from urban regeneration to co-production of basic services (water, sanitation and housing), especially in informal settlements and peri-urban areas, with focus on community participation in planning processes.

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Thomas LACOUR-VEYRANNE // Architect and Urban planner Since 2016, Thomas has worked as a professional architect and urban planner. He is developing his skills in the design of public spaces. His recent assignments in the Middle East (Bahrain, UAE, KSA) and Asia (India, Vietnam, Cambodia), have enabled him to take up the challenge of planning and designing sustainable cities in regions with a constrained climate and rapid large-scale growth. Based on these experiences, he has been able to develop a multidisciplinary and holistic vision of urban scales, from the metropolitan territory to building scale. Thomas is interested in different typologies of architecture, traditional or contemporary and he tries to discern the steps of their creative process, always seeking to gain an insight into the world cultures and populations he is still learning to discover.

NGUYEN Manh Tri // National University of Civil Engineering, VN Graduated from Hanoi Architecture University, Nguyen Manh Tri gained a Master’s degree in Architecture from Laval University (Quebec, Canada). He is also a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Theory and history of architecture, faculty of Architecture and Planning, National University of Civil Engineering (Hanoi, Vietnam). His major research interest focuses on the history of modern architecture, especially postcolonial architecture and the localisation of Modernism architecture in Vietnam

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PHAM Ngoc Ha Ninh // Artist / Vietnam University of Fine Arts, VN Hà Ninh Pham (b. 1991) is a fine artist and art educator from Hanoi, Vietnam. His work explores the way in which we construct our understanding of territories from afar. Hà Ninh Pham graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2018, and the Vietnam University of Fine Arts in. 2014. His work has been featured on Hyperallergic, New American Paintings, and ArtandMarket. Hà Ninh has been in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Corporation of Yaddo, Wassaic Project, the Marble House Project in the United States, and PLOP in the United Kingdom. His work has been shown in New York, London, Philadelphia, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Hà Ninh Pham is represented by the gallery A+ Works of Art at S.E.A. Focus 2021, Singapore. He is currently Assistant Professor of Painting at the Vietnam University of Fine Arts, and Associate Lecturer at RMIT University Vietnam.

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Duy MAC // PhD Student in Architectural and Urban History and Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London Duy is a PhD Student in Architectural and Urban History and Theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London from where he also obtained his MA in Architectural History. Previously, he studied Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and worked as research assistant at the RWTH Aachen. He was also contributing editor and correspondent for DETAIL Magazine. His doctoral thesis explores the ways in which postnational reflections, based on the European Union, have emerged in the architecture of Arata Isozaki as part of a broader intellectual project in liberal political philosophy.

Project Staff Hanoi Team Phong PHUONG ,Quan DAO,Ha NGUYEN,The Hiep NGUYEN, Tuan HA , Minh Trang NGUYEN, Huy Viet PHUNG, Duc Minh, Hung LE, Minh Hien VU, Nam LE, Toan NGUYEN EU Team Uyen LUONG, Lan VI, Tuan Dung NGUYEN, Floralou LECLAIR, Thomas LACOUR, Magdalena SMOTER, Mai Huong NGUYEN, Ba Kadidia Japan Team Tung NGUYEN, Kyohei TAKAHASHI Singapore Team Thien Tam TRAN US Team Phuong Anh NGUYEN UK Team Vang Anh TRAN Saigon Team Gia Hoa TRAN Australia Team Ha Thanh LE

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History Timeline (© Hanoi Ad Hoc)

What is Hanoi Ad Hoc 1.0 ? In 1890, Tony Garnier started working on his revolutionary model for the “cité industrielle”. This ideal industrial city was conceived mainly from four separated programmes: production, housing, health and leisure facilities in which the production programme is the core concept of modern cities.

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Simultaneously, in another part of the planet, Hanoi stepped into its first industrialisation and began to densify, taking on the appearance of a modern city as the result of the “mission civilisatrice”’s implementation. However, the city was not designed with any of Garnier’s principles. Instead of applying the strict zoning regulations, there are barely separations between living and production. The factories were located in the heart of Hanoi and some scattered around the city as the belated effort of Hébrard to reduce the air pollution for the inner city. Hence, they remain today as part of Hanoi’s urban fabric, integrated in a “bricolage”way into indigenous residential fabrics. The Hanoian urbanscape demonstrates clearly the unwillingness of long term policies toward the industrialization in Indochina of Jules Ferry. Hanoi Ad hoc 1.0 will interrogate the forgotten lives of industrial factories in the tropical, post-colonial urban context of Hanoi, Vietnam. As part of the national call to rebuild and modernise the nation by Ho Chi Minh in 1966, these industrial factories played a significant role in facilitating material culture and abundance in the life of an average Vietnamese. More than mere production facilities, these factories with their own diverse architecture, etched into the mind of its occupants, shaped their subjectivities and subsequently influenced their everyday lives. After the war, with the nation opening its door to the infinite sea of free market and neoliberalism, these urban artifacts gradually lost out their purposes and were slated to be replaced by generic capitalistic development. By investigating their current urban conditions using anthropological techniques, retracing their architecture with architectural drawings methodology and situating these knowledge in a greater socio-historical context, we aim to unearth these factories’ former selves and subsequently imagine their alternate futures.

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Outcomes and Schedules Multidisciplinary and collaborative research (Dec 2020 - Dec 2021) With a broad audience targeting,the final outcome aims to reach intellectuals, practitioners, stakeholders, decidors in order to convince people to see industrial heritages and the preservation in multiple perspectives. To do things right, we must understand it right beforehand. The outcome will be a collection of critical writings, reliable databases, finest architectural drawings which will serve as a strong foundation for further research and developments. Urban investigation, recording and response Anthropological investigation into the current conditions of factories of interest. Narrating these factories’ conditions and their surroundings using architectural drawings, diagrams, montage, collage. Developing a position regarding the post-occupant of these factories of interest, understand the context of these buildings through analysing its dialectic relationship and material presence with its neighbouring habitants, and project a potential response to these sites.

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Axonometric Drawings A series of axonometric drawings in large format (A1: See Peter Eisenman’s drawings from his house series, Sherwood’s prototype housing drawings and the following drawing of 168 Khuat Duy Tien) to illustrate the building of interests as accurately as possible . The series will be accompanied with photographic documentations to serve as a long term research archive. Each investigated building will be represented by one of these drawings with the angles determined onsite to show the most prominent features of the building. The drawings will be drawing in Axonometric format, providing the objectivity and rational characteristic of architecture during the early modernist period. The drawings also contain only single lineweight, flattening out the perception, freezing the building at the moment of record and further emphasising its ‘objectiveness’. Each building of the axonometric series will be shown on its own with architecture as the main subject, stripped down to its bare components. Urban anthropological drawings For each building of interest, previously mentioned axonometric large format drawings will be accompanied with two to three anthropological drawings. The drawings situate the building of interest in its urban context, everyday life and the narrative of Vietnamese people. Each drawing repositions from an objective to subjective point of view, gradually allowing the views to empathise and submerge themselves into the life of these so-called ruins. ‘Slide-Cut-Paste’ Diagrams / Collage / Montage The drawings are reinforced with a series of diagrams illustrating a ranged aspect regarding building of interest. To achieve these diagrams, upon gathering documents and photographing buildings of interest, these materials are broken and extracted specific information can be carried out. The aim, unlike previous ‘slow drawings’, is to efficiently produce a set of information that can be used post-workshop and illustrate the overall workshop’s argument and narrative. In terms of urban studies, these allow researchers to explore the site historically, projectively and diagramatically. In terms of building of interest, it allows the team to start observing the building at detail / component level which would feedback to the accuracy of the accuracy of axonometric drawings. There is no limit on the number of output quantities of these media. Essays Design Provocation Apart from pure gathering information and collecting data, through discussion within the teams, design provocations are developed to establish different positions towards the lives of these factories and sites. Unlike a detailed architectural proposal, this quick design provocation will serve as conceptual / practical/ critical/ projective platforms for future possibilities and open up a conversation, contributing directly to the architectural knowledge production in Vietnam.

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Collective on-site field work (Aug 2021 - Sep 2021) Field work - Site visit - Survey For 2 weeks, the three research teams will converge in Hanoi for collective field work. This provides an opportunity for the teams to assess their off-site investigation, reflect on their progress and form research insight.

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Research lectures and specialists’ talks In cooperation with local institutions and agencies, research members are encouraged to give lectures of interest to introduce their theoretical positions for the research taking into consideration the factories’ context and urban conditions. Reading materials can be provided to help reach out to the research’s wider audience. In addition, specialists’ talks will be held to discuss significant case studies projects in Vietnam, to facilitate knowledge exchange between international and local researcher and to encourage future collaboration. Architectural visits In parallel with the workshop’s investigation into post-industrial factories, research teams will visit contemporary architecture of interest to gain an additional understanding of the current state of Vietnamese architecture and architectural practice. Specialists’ talks can be held during these visits. Exhibition (Nov 2021 - Dec 2021) Symposium and Exhibition As part of a wider research program, the research hopes to bring together several experts in the field of architecture to have a critical discussion. Participants are encouraged to attend and contribute to the debate in the symposium. Symposium aims to provide an arena for cultural/ architectural debates. The desired outcome would be to put together a panel of opposing views and, through conversation, to establish a common ground to facilitate critical discourse and creative resolution regarding these factories. The symposium, hopefully, will bring some of the issues of these important factories into a wider public discourse and serve as a catalyst for future changes. Publication (Dec 2021 - Mar 2022) Research materials after the public exhibition will be refined, compiled and published. This publication will conclude the workshop of the current year and tie back into Hanoi Ad hoc’s greater research.Critical writings by every project’s partners and/or contributors, guests. This publication is the opportunity to launch an architectural investigation-to recall, by using examples, that study of the past could become the basis for the future creation of a built environment.

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5 Partners

Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’éducation, la science et la culture

Chaire UNESCO en paysage urbain

The UNESCO Chair in Urban Landscape of the University of Montreal http://www.unesco-paysage.umontreal.ca/en

UN-Habitat https://unhabitat.org

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RMIT https://www.rmit.edu.vn/vi

University of Montreal https://www.umontreal.ca/en

National University of Civil Engineering http://nuce.edu.vn/

Journal of Vietnamese Studies https://online.ucpress.edu/jvs

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Mai Hung Trung Founder Ha Noi Ad Hoc 4 rue Beaugrenelle 75015, Paris

Object: Collaboration between the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South (Université de Montréal) and Ha Noi Ad Hoc

Mr. Mai, It is with great pleasure that I write to confirm the support of the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Urbanization in the Global South (Université de Montréal) to the Ha Noi Ad Hoc initiative. This multi-year, collaborative and interdisciplinary project is fully in line with the Chair’s objective to explore the ‘real-life’ urban development dynamics unfolding in rapidly urbanizing cities of Southeast Asia, and of Vietnam more specifically. Ha Noi Ad Hoc is further aligned on the Chair’s objective to contribute to the development of sustainable urban

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settlements—understood as places where economic growth and social development which foster wealth creation, social equity, and human flourishing are in balance with the carrying capacity of natural systems. Given this convergence of interests, and in my capacity of Chairholder, I am pleased to confirm the Chair’s intention to collaborate and develop joint activities with the Ha Noi Ad Hoc team. These activities might include the exchange of relevant information and material, the development of joint grant applications, the organization of international and intercultural research and training activities in the field of architecture, urban design, and urban planning to which students from the Université of Montréal will be invited to take part, and the production of joint publications and events. Cordially,

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