FINAL THESIS

THE POTENTIAL OF THE ALLEY SYSTEM FOR URBAN GARDENING DEVELOPMENT IN VIETNAMESE CITIES ON THE EXAMPLE OF HO CHI MINH CITY

AUTOCAD-SKETCHUP-PHOTOSHOP

French Colonized Period

The urban lot-land structure had shared garden in the middle of the building. This could be the identity of the city at this time.

Comtemporary Period

The war, urbanization and imigration impacted urban lot-land structure transformation The garden disappeared and the alley appeared after these milestones.

ALLEY TYPE 6A & 5 A

The type 6A alley in this group is entirely distinctive from all groups, and it has pavement for citizens roughly 1.5 meters. The Alley type 5A in the group is below two-meter width.

Alley Type 7a

Blind alley with only one way access has more private shared yard and less impacts from main traffic road.

PHASE 3

High cost

Designed concrete pot and native plant

Green beds for Water treatment

Design outdoor concrete bench with wooden material on top

Design colorful beds

PHASE 2

Low-moderate cost

Native green vine wall

PHASE 1

Low cost

New benches

Native plant and clay pot

Adding some garphic artwork

Wooden benches

Wooden food containers

Re-painting wall with white color

Simple Vietnamese lantern

Existing plant pots

Design Step

The design gives solutions for solving existing social issues and fitting the citizen’s needs. Besides, it is a possible experiment to look at Vietnamese reaction with this initiative.

The project aims to let people and authorities together create their places, activities, and identity is divided into three phases.

PLAN scale: 1/500

In this first phase, the design focuses on creating a low-cost design and moveable types of furniture with some simple design and low impact on the site. With moveable furniture, people can flexibly adjust them when it is necessary. This temporary design experiment duration is one year.

The wall is considered to do painting with white color to make sense of widening.

Some plant boxes are added as an initiative for food growing. People can do garden practices with some essential vegetables for example lettuces, mushroom, carrot, or tomatoes, or some daily-use herbs such as mint, perilla leaf, green onions, rice paddy leaf, Centella.

A few simple design benches, shipping pallet chairs, and tables, common bins for gathering, relaxing,having meals and cleaning stuff also are attached.

On the surface of the alley, some temporary kid games are setting by chalks or spray paints.

The place with small design can stimulate people to do some outdoor activities, especially children, who can use the area as a playground and play many traditional games.

PHASE 2 LOW-MODERATE COST

PLAN scale: 1/500

After one year of the first phase, in the next stage, the design still keeps all the design of the first step and attach more furniture. This temporary design experiment duration is two years.

The wall is considered to grow some native vine that can make the alley more greenery.

More first phase shipping pallet chairs, and tables for gathering, relaxing, and having meals also are attached and the temporary benches are replaced by new bench design

More food containers are also added.

On the surface of the alley, some temporary kid games are setting by spray paints with many colors.

PLAN scale: 1/500

In the last phase, the design will be conducted more permanently and stable. This project will start in the fourth year, and the temporary design experiment duration is 5 years.

The wall is considered to have some traditional painting in small sizes and some colorful graphic textures and pattern paintings.

All moveable items of furniture would change into a regular design feature with stable materials such as stainless steel or concrete. These materials can be more adaptable in Ho Chi Minh city climate conditions.

The transformation of food containers from wood to concrete or clay as a design program will be conducted in this phase.

On the surface of the alley, some permanent kid games are setting by spray paints with many colors. Besides, there are some graphic artworks also making on the surface. The most essential thing on the surface is green beds for water treatment, also including.

The canopy will be remade to suit the concept design with similar colors, textures, and patterns on the wall.

The power poles, water pipes are re-painted with colorful colors.

“CULTURAL LANDSCAPE”

“The man together shapes their landscape, does their activities in this place, and then creates their languages“ (Arntzen, 2002) and (Van den Brink et al., 2017: 15)

Whether temporary solutions in small scales can fulfil the need of human?

Graphic Skills

Landscape

Philosophy of park design

Advanced landscape drawing

Modern landscape theory