Fengshuiin landscape urbanism
Hanoi 18.02.2009
PhoDucTung
Dr.
Louis I. Kahn
Louis I. Kahn
Line and volume Visible and invisible
Whitoutsubtance: no mass, no weight
No limit: no begin, no end Invisible
No gain, no lost, no development
But it has direction, movement.
subtance: mass, weight limit visible
gain, lost, development, explosion no direction, movement.
line volume
East West
The spiritual approach: historical considerations
-At the beginning of Ha Noi history and for hundreds of years, the city consisted of three main parts: the citadel; the adjacent market area (36 ancient streets), and; the spiritual district around the West Lake, formed by a chain of pagodas and temples.
-The history around the pilot project area is significant and meaningful in the development of Ha Noi. In early times, in XIVth century, Hanoi King Tran Thanh Tong wanted to resign his royal functions and left to Yen Tu mountain, to become a zenmonk. Requiring his leadership, general Tran Thu Do and followers of the court persuaded the King to return to Ha Noi by promising to build a much better spiritual place close to the West lake, naming Yen Phu (Tu= Fils; Phu= Father).
- The idea of the new spiritual center connects with 1000 years of traditions. It applies the site’s spiritual essence to the modern environment. The centre is a spiritual interface for Ha Noi to fully enter the new millennium.
The Essence of Vietnamese spirituality
The idea of emptiness
Triloka
Kamadhatu –Realm of sensuous desire
Rupadhatu –Realm of forms
Arupadhatu –Realm of pure spirit
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Daoism Buddhism
Li
Hollow in the middle Confucianism
Emptiness and insight
- The concept of emptiness in the centre and insight is the leading concept of Ha Noi in the new millennium.
- The whole city has the Red River as a hollow centre. This center is an empty space, defined by three towers.
- The pilot project, defining the spiritual centre of Ha Noi, also has the circle form, and an empty square at its core.
FenG shui and the big and small directions
Co loa
-The initial idea of the pilot project was to create a non-physical connection between Ha Noi and Co Loa citadel. This was conceived as a step to link the past, present and future realities of Ha Noi.
-While the main concept of the pilot project has changed through our study, we retain the principle of this connection. Passing through the project site, a central axis links the past and present power centres of Ha Noi: Co Loa citadel and BaDinhdistrict.
Tran quoc
-On this axis, we also find Tran Vu temple, which is the protecting sanctuary of the city, and the Tran QuocPagoda, which should defends the whole country from its natural and human enemies. Further on the axis are important military facilities of ancient Ha Noi: GiangVo and QuanNgua.
-From the FengShuipoint of view, the topography of this axis has a special, scorpion like formation (metal element), especially important that enhances military and defending purposes. The pilot project site is a key point of this fengshuiformation and can play the key role for thousand years.
- According to this formation, the pilot project should have a slightly different axis than the main BaDinh–Co Loa axis. We should orientate the axis of the pilot project and the situation of the main tower.
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The axis orientation
- The tower (ref.: red dot) belongs to the silhouette of the whole city and should therefore be on the main axis, between Ba Dinh and Co Loa (ref.: main green axis).
- The central axis of the pilot project (ref.: blue line) differs slightly to the east from the main city axis.
spiritual trinity and yin-yang duality
The 5 cosmic elements
Wood
Earth
Water
Fire Metal
Receiving versus dominating
Mountain and water
The energy flows of Edinburgh
Castle rock
Princes St.
Caltonhill
Leithisland
Royal mile
Holyroodpark
Salisbury Crags
Holyr.St. Leithwalk
The main fengshuicomposition
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