Hieunguyen Academic Portfolio

2020 academic

PORTFOLIO Hieu Nguyen Hochiminh University of Architecture KT15A3|hieunguyenv.arc@gmail.com

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" do the right things and then do the things right "

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|hieunguyen| Bachelor's Degree in Architecture Hochiminh University of Architecture (2015-2020) hieunguyenv.arc@gmail.com 0971264394 | skills | Modeling Autodesk Revit

Autodesk Autocad

Sketchup Rendering Lumion Corona renderer Visualization Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Indesign

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Languages Vietnamese NATIVE -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - English 840TOEIC -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -| achievements | Top 4 highest grade - point average Top 6 highest graduation project result

GPA : 3.42 8.64/10.0

Consolation prize for students who have the best graduation project - Nagecco company 09/2020 Second prize at 2018 Archicad BIM competition held by by Graphisoft, UAH university, VLU university, HCMUT and Tokyo Institute of Technology 07/2018 Merit Award (conceptual design section) at 2018 National architectural student festival held by Vietnam Association of Architects 04/2018 Third prize at Mekong floating settlement competition held by Institute for Floating Building -BTUCottbus- Germany and Vietnam Association of Architects 08/2017 Academic scholarships at University of architecture for students who have good study result during 2nd/3rd/4th/5th/6th/7th/8th semester | academic activities | Participate in 2020 Futurarc competion "Bring nature back to the city"

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Participate in XI National arch.student festival at conceptual design section 04/2018 Participate in Bamboo structure workshop with students from Tasmania university Participate in Academic workshop with students from Hongkong university

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Academic projects terrace apartment - low-rise apartment

art college - college project

tangram school - elementary school

suitcase factory - industrial project

history museum - cutural project

liberty central - interior project

vcb headquarter

- highrise building

aquarium center

- sport center

Competions old town in future - floating settlements on mekong delta

sloping light - BIM competition

sketching - handrawing, ink skeching

Alternative works

modeling - concept models, presentation models photography - landscape, architecture, lifestyle

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TERRACE APARTMENT residental project | low-rise apartment

Terrace apartment is the second project of my third academic year, whose assignment is about generating a low-rise apartment for employees and their families in District 7, Hochiminh city. The project demands a living space for employees belonging to an international company, includes local employees, foreign employees, foreign specialists,...

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TERRACE

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academic project

terrace concept

Due to the site analysis results, 2 main points could be exploited: views to the north which was a large green area, the longest-west border facing the main street received a large amount of solar radiation.

The project's design strategy was based on those, creating a massing that could reduce solar radiation and optimize the range of views to the north. This passive strategy was developed by using the shape of terraces. Its process was 6 steps beside :

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1. THE SITE

2. MAXIMUM VOLUMN

3. VIEW OPTIMIZED

4. WEST SOLAR RADIATION

5. GREEN ROOF

6. LANDSCAPE

The original site in which 4 faces were confronted with old local residential areas. The distribution of the surrounding landscape is shown in the graphic.

Lightly rotate some floors to make them different from each other, thereby reducing the areas which are influenced by west solar radiation (especially with the building block stretching in the North East-South-West direction).

Divide the purposed 50 000 sqm floor into 3 blocks connected in the shape of U letter. This volume has 7 floors and 1 basement.

Arrange more green gardens on the floor by taking advantage of the extra spaces from the floor rotating. These spaces can be used as a public yard, a private yard for one, or a group of apartments.

Increase and decrease the height of the three blocks to create a wide and clear view from the inner courtyard and the highest block to the green park (northeast face of the land).

Completing the landscape with terrain surface overlooking the landscape of the park, including small squares in the center, lakes, swimming pools, internal roads, and pedestrian paths, ...

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TERRACE

residental project | low-rise condominiums| elevation

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1. FLAT FACADE

The monotonous facade of the building is largely influenced by oblique solar radiation.

2. MODIFIED

Lightly rotate floors to make them different from each other thereby reducing the area of western radiation on the surface of the building (especially the building block facing the west)

SOLAR RADIATION REDUCTION by passive design for west-facade

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3. SHADOW OPTIMIZED

Lightly rotate floors to make them different from each other thereby reducing the area of western radiation on the surface of the building (especially the building block facing the west).

4. GREEN SPACES

Create more green areas, thereby absorbing solar radiant energy into the building surface.

These spaces also can be used as public spaces.

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TERRACE

residental project | low-rise condominiums| facade

East facade

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views from inside

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ART COLLEGE educational project | college | art

Art college is the third project of my third academic year.

The brief requests to create a new college for students who have expertise in art and cinema majors.

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break the line open space polyline concept

The site was a 2.5ha area surrounded by a lot of large green spaces that haven't had high construction density. The north and west side sides faced to a beautiful local canal, whereas the east side faced to the main street, which caused much noise.

So, my strategy was focusing on the canal, exploiting the views by breaking the straight line of the original proposal volume to create the view to the canal, creating more backyards.

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1. VOLUMN

2. VIEW

3. LIFT UP

4. CORE CONNECTION

5. ROOM DEVIDING

6. LANDSCAPE

Divide 15000 sqm-maximum volume of the function floor into 1 horizontal-orientated straight massing.

The core hall of the building is crossed along the length of the side, which connects all functions areas toward 1 single throughout the circulation core.

Fold the straight massing up to be a broken-polyline in order to enhance inside courtyards and views to the river as well as reduce the solar energy from the west.

Arrange function areas, develop intricate spaces, facades and details

“Lift up� at some points closed to the river to maximize the views and increase a diversity of function spaces.

Creating green-function areas, halls, lobbies, paths, which is connected the main building to auxiliary buildings, sport areas, and the gateway.

DRAFT-MODELING PROCESS

From step 3, I developed my concept by different draft-modelings, which allowed me to understand more about the detailed space and then choose the most suitable one.

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The site was a 2.5ha area surrounded by a lot of large green spaces that haven't had high construction density. The north and west side sides faced to a beautiful local canal, whereas the east side faced to the main street, which caused much noise.

So, my strategy was focusing on the canal, exploiting the views by breaking the straight line of the original proposal volume to create the view to the canal, creating more backyards.

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TANGRAM SCHOOL educational project | primary school With the idea based on 7 pieces of tangram puzzle, the project is designed to create a learning space suitable for children.

The special feature of this educational space is to take advantage of the common space : lobbies, halls, paths to form a combination of difference playing grounds for the whole project, simultaneously stimulating the movement and creativity of children.

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spectacular world cracked from tangram shape

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SUITCASE FACTORY industrial project |academic

This is the only industrial design project in my academic curriculum with the requirement to design a factory for bag and suitcase manufacture. The master plan is designed to be minimal, while the facade is designed to explain the suitcase brand philosophy by using different metal materials.

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1. Maximum volumn

2. Function detected

3. Courtyard divided

4. Circulation

5. Facade and material

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HISTORY MUSEUM culture project | vietnamese hisory

History Museum is a place to display a large number of artifacts belonging to Vietnamese history with a quite large scale of volume. Due to a special location closed to the center of Ho Chi Minh City with 2 sides facing to the canals, the project requires creating a space not only for exhibiting artifacts but also being symbolic and outstanding to attract travelers.

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master plan

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1. ORIGINAL SITE

2. MAXIMUM VOLUMN

3. LIGHTING CUT

4. PLAN OPTIMIZE

5. SPACE OPTIMIZE

6. LANDSCAPE

Locates along Nguyen Huu Canh street which its south side facing the river.

There are 4 accessible positions to the site.

Push and pull blocks to match the function requirements.

The total volume consists of 1 basement, 1 ground floor and a mezzanine.

Create undulating roof shapes to generate a variety of spaces, simultaneously enhance effects of facades.

Cut two sides to allow light to access into spaces and devide spaces into many different blocks.

Open 3 squares and create axes linking a river station and two intersections.

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The exhibition space includes basements, ground floor, and some upper floors. The exhibition space revolves around a large void, thereby creating orientation for visitors.

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The exhibition space includes basement, ground floor and some upper floors. The exhibition space revolves around a large void, thereby creating orientation for visitors.

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LIBERTY CENTRAL interior design | lobby | suit

Liberty central hotel is a hotel in the Liberty group, with a philosophy of serving towards youthful, energetic and international.

In that spirit, interior design for the lobby and bedroom of the hotel also aims to be modern and youthful with luxurious warm tones, adding a few contrasting details to create a light contract.

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VCB HEADQUARTER highrise builiding | bank | officehouse

Vietcombank headquarter is a 23-storey office building, located on a 1.4-hectare site in the commercial & office service area of Sala urban area - the center of Thu Thiem and surrounded by 150 hectares of natural ecological area.

The site is adjacent to Mai Chi Tho Street, East-West Avenue, located between two complicated intersections.

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master plan 58

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second floor 60

third floor

first basement

second basement

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typical offlice floor

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section 1 64

section 2 65

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OLD TOWN IN FUTURE competition| floating settlements| Mekong delta

"Old town in future" is the project that is made at the end of my second academic year. The competition aims to renovate the living space of a floating village at Hunghoamy, Angiang province. The project suggests the idea of creating a new village which could change the way people work, at the same time provide a master plan minimizing the impact of humans on the water and vice versa.

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THE OLD VILLGE

SOCIAL NEEDS

Floating villages of Myhoahung Angiang has acquired a reputation of Basa fishing aquaculture activities for export.

However, in recent years, because of the environment pollution and the overloaded fishing activities, this traditional aquaculture has been in crisis.

The new housing module requires space for 5 to 6 people, including local families, visitors and spaces for economic activities.

After analyzing the site, we found that the main issues here were about the recession of basa-fish aquaculture (their main economic activity) and the bad effect on the river by their living activities.

Our project Old Town in Future is my ambition of reinstating the era of Basa fish again through providing new economic methods: aquaculture combines community-based tourism.

PRESENT SOLLUTIONS

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So, based on my design, every floating house could become a community tourist spot, with experience services, homestay, traditional seafood production.

NEW MODULE The design of the new home is an upgrade from the local traditional architecture.

Due to new demand, the house is split into two blocks and linked together by a common living space. Small blocks will be used as homestays for tourists (can be flexibly used as a warehouse, extra bedroom), large block consists of 2 bedrooms: living room, kitchen, dining room connected to the homestay block. Tourists here will experience the daily activities of local people, including fish farming, aquatic plants, canoeing, dining with the owner.

HOUSES TO TOURIST SPOTS

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FUTURE ORIENTATION The indigenous people have lived in cluster settlements along Hau river and each household has usually been isolated for being more private and safe. However, this living style can actually make living conditions and living environment worse due to their daily activities. There should be better solutions for connecting each settlement not only to ensure basic issues but also to impulse the development tourism industry and every part of our community together.

REDUCE WATER FLOW

penta|square|triangle|rhobus shape

I called the connected method was a rhombus shape.

Rhombus is the shape that reducing the water flow which the most efficient by its acute angle.

So, we decided to rotate all new modules to be the rhombus shape. Simultaneously, the shape of the new community was arranged to be the rhombus shape too. The core of the village was the rhombus-green garden, which is surrounded by floating houses. Farming areas are located like a border protecting the settlements.

By that way. the new village would be taken consistent with the water flow: the flow would be freer and the village would have more chance to use the river but not taking a bad effect on it.

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SLOPING LIGHT BIM competition |passive design |tube house

Our chosen site was a house located on a narrow,

deep and intricate alley (which is very common and also an urban feature of Saigon) in dictrict 8, HCM city. The house’s basic function was a living space of 4 peoples in a family and also a nursery of local kids ( for kids from 1 to 5 years old). When we came to the site, that house was very narrow and dark with a low condition nursery as well. Thus, our project focused on that nursery in a center, making some renovations to increase the living condition of kids ( and the family), changing the living space to be more flexible and full of energy by some methods from passive design.

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sloping light sloping courtyard...

sloping cut

sloping concept

So, what is the method? We moved the nursery space to the backyard which had private access from the back. We split up the house to make a sloping courtyard by a sloping cut which helped morning sunlight can access to the nursery on the ground floor. Simultaneously, we modified some floors and roofs, created 2 filter layers (louvers system and center-green garden) to make them a sloping multi-roof for reducting solar radiation and optimizing the morning sunlight efficiency.

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1. THE OLD HOUSE

2. NURSERY

3. LIFT FLATS UP

4.SLOPING COURTYARD

4. PASSIVE ROOFS

4.CENTER GARDEN

4. CIRCULATION

4. THE NEW HOUSE

4A. FLAT ROOF

4B. SLOPING ROOF

4C. MULTI ROOFS

(1849 kWh/sq m per year)

(1675 kWh/sq m per year)

The old house before renovation which haved all the issues : lack of lighting, tight spaces, narrow, specifically the low conditional nursery.

Creating a muti-sloping roof which has louver system above to reduce solar radiation. The louver system became a first layer to make sure only morning sunlight can access.

Flat roof is always received by a multitude of solar radiation.

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Pulling the nursery back to the backyard of that house, from that opening a private way accessing quicklier to the nursery.

The garden appears in the center is supposed to become the second light filtter. Its shadow reflecting to the nursery makes it more colorful and natural.

slope roof is received less solar radiation than flat roof ( in turns of ESE orientation).

Lift some flats above the nursery up to make the space lighter and airy.

Dividing all flats above to make a sloping courtyard which has ability to bring solar energy accessing to the nursery and living spaces.

Put all the path, stairs, halls to the The new house with its sloping house and make sure 2 different roofs, sloping courtyard and functions (nursery space and sloping nursery has been DONE. family living spaces are separated)

4D. LOUVER SYSTEM

2 sloping roofs for creating a court- creating a louver-system which yard which insides the house is above sloping roof to optimise the ability of solar radiation reducing.

(1621 kWh/sq m per year) (1150 kWh/sqm per year)

PASSIVE RESULT (LIGHTING SIMULATION)

To recheck the efficiency of the passive method, we used lighting simulation software to check the results. These graphics show us the way sunlight access to the house at each period of time from morning to afternoon. In the morning, sunlight access deeply to the house, to the ground floor and make all spaces lighter. At mid-time and afternoon, sunlight can not access to the house thank to 2 lighting filter layers.

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All living spaces was around the green space in the center and received enough lighting from sloping courtyard. the living room was located on ground floor, the kitchen is upstair at first floor.

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SECTION

The common living space of family was located on the center of the house and from here can access to the bedroom. this common space had a perfect view to the roof garden on second floor. bedroom

common

bedroom

bedroom

nursery

living room

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other skills

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u rb an sketching

Urban sketching is one of my great passions as an

architecture student. It gives me a detailed view on the charm of the urban area where I live and also a chance to meet friends who are architects, artists or someone have the same passion.

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urban sketching

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photography

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photography

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hand-modeling

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concept models presentation models drafting 89

the end thank you for watching

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