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PREI NOKOR 4.0
from Architecture Portfolio | Selected works 2017-2022 | Admitted to Politecnico di Milano | Mai Dang
by Mai Dang
Saigon Riverside Renovation
Type: Academic project
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Level: Workshop project (Semester 7)
Type of working: Group work
‘Location: Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
Date: September 2019
Prei Nokor: /definition/ The first name of Saigon, which means “city in the jungle”.
Saigon - Ho Chi Minh city was borned as a thinly populated riverside swamp, then the value of Saigon river was exploited and this land gradually developed. The name “A pearl of the Extreme Orient” has attached to Saigon river and the riverbank for hundreds years. In anytime, preserving and developing Sai Gon riverbank and surroundings landscape is a economic and cultural concern of all the city.
What is Nguyen Hue? What is Charner canal?
Potential research factor
Nguyen Hue pedestrian street is the largest pedestrian street in Ho Chi Minh City. However, its existing design increases a large concrete area, with a limited amount of tree cover. This significantly affects the frequency of space use of this place, especially in the context of the hot and humid tropical climate that requires shade and high density of trees. A special thing is that this neighborhood about 100 years ago used to be a large man-made canal called the Charner canal. This is the canal that plays an important role in the transportation of goods as well as the trade of the contemporaries.
What if we bring the canal image back once again?
An idea to start a combination between walking landscape and water element.
Different spaces of riverside park zone
From the initial sketches...
Pedestrian bridge ideas
The connections between the bridge and buildings alongside
... To a design
