URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC PROJECTS 2012 - 2017
VU THE DANH
VU THE DANH Urban design portfolio
ABOUT ME VU THE DANH vuthedanh2012@gmail.com 01684 985 595 222 Xom Chieu, Ward 15, District 4, HCMc DoB
20.12.1994
Successful design that inspires and enriches lives comes from the heart not the head. Proactive, industrious and a self-motivated Urban Design graduated person with a willingness to learn, a keen eye for detail and strong management in teamwork.
Looking to enter a challenging position where I can test my skills in analytical, critical thinking and problem solving to add value to an organisation.
Urban design is my passion where I can be able to focus on building an international career as a young professional urban architect, a young team leader.
LANGUAGE SKILL Vietnamese
English ( IELTS 6.0 )
EDUCATION 2012 - 2017 Bachelor of Art in Urban design University of Architecture- Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam
. Thesis topic : Biomimicry as a tool into the application in urban design . Group topic : Regreeneration . Individual topic : Biomimetic ecosystem ( 3rd place )
WORK EXPERIENCE . Able to work various jobs in different situations.
. Always try to supply standards over clients’ expectations. Conducting preservative polls for Architecture of Institution Dec 2015 . Identifying and researching houses, built before 1975, to propose preservative campaigns about tangible and intangible values. Intern SHIN YEONG PROJECT MANAGEMENT Co. Ltd Sep - Nov 2015 . Participated in research data projects for HCMC boundaries, looing at average houses per floor, price, public facilities and residential resouces to supply client’s demand and housing market. International Student Group Officer, HCMC University of Architecture 2014 - 2016 . Responsible for groups of visiting architecture students from UK, Korea ,China. . Assisted with cultural issues, site visits and project collaborations.
GRAPHIC SKILLS Adobe Photoshop
3D max
Adobe Indesign
Vray
Adobe Illustrator
MS project management
Autocad
MS office
INTRODUCTION
This portfolio gathers my academic work during my studyies at university. My projects mainly focus on balancing benefits between humans and nature. Therefore, they brings sustainable designs. That is the reason to start the design.
1A.
SPATIAL SETTINGS
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1B.
MULTI-LANDSCAPE NETWORK
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Stage 1 in district 8, HCMc - March 2015 Menbers: Chau Minh Nguyen + Vu The Danh
Stage 2 in district 8, HCMc - April 2015 Members: 5
2A.
THE CORE
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WATERFRONT OF TOMMORROW
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Stage 1 in district 1, HCMc - October 2015 Members: 6
2B.
Stage 2 in district 1, HCMc - December 2015 Member: Vu The Danh
3A. REGREENERATION
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GRADUATED PROJECT - Stage 1 in Son Tra, Da Nang - September 2016 Members: Pham Quoc Viet, Luu Bui Trung Chanh + Vu The Danh
3B.
BIOMIMETIC ECOSYSTEM
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GRADUATED PROJECT - Stage 2 in Son Tra, Da Nang - December 2016 Member: Vu The Danh
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SETTINGS PATIAL
Ward 16, District 8 and Binh Tan are located in the transformation zone (district 5 and 6) and Southern area that dramactically affected by urbanization with a developement of transport system from city center. Therefore, this site has all basic conditions for developing commmerce,entertainment, accommodation and so forth.
The residential area 2000
The residential area 2014
The new and old residential area
Commercial area
Daily activities in area
Pagodas and temples
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Site analysis & proposal
Thoses sections shows activities in each street and spatial setting of this site.
Overall, this section has a potential development in a long term stratergies. However, we have to ultilize methods to interact bewent green spaces, open spaces and commercial areas, becoming a unique system if as a small city in the central city.
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MULTIFUNCTIONAL
LANDSCAPES
HOW WE ARRIVED AT THIS VISION The increasing of unmaintained vacant lots has potentially transformative impact in the form of landscape that can be collectively harnessed into a new multifunctional landscape system to improve the area in terms of ecological performance and its communities. Through natural process, these plot turn out to be spontaneous green space and are not used to supply open spaces for its residents. Population is increasing rapidly leading to the demand of more spaces to live, meanwhile there are a lot of lands available.
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However, in order to provide a community open spaces that are not only as recreational landscape, but they also productive landscapes, we suggest to transform these vacant lots into a series of multifunctional landscape network, to make these vacant lots valuable.
Proposal
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Proposal
Ecological landscape - Forest and meadow that provide habitats and improve environmental conditions 8
Blue & green infrastructure - Landscape that collect stormwater and clean air Large lakes/ Infiltration ponds/ Smaller retention ponds
Proposal
Productive landscape - Landscape that grow energy and food, create new urban experiences. Urban farming/ Energy field, forest
Traditional openspace - Landscape for recreation, social life. Playgrounds/ Neighbourhood park/ Sport field/ Urban meadow 9
Proposal
Our framework focuses on a series of analytic mapping of existing conditions and researching on relevant case studies about productive landscape, landscape urbanism and remediation as well as ecological community to bring the best solution for this area.
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Proposal Proposal Our project aims to redefine and diversify the traditional perception of landscape as only recreation by showing multiple effects of landscape such as improving residents’ health, reducing pollution problems, collecting stormwater, creating resources for research, providing food and even job opportunities. Making landscape productive is a guideline of our project. Specifically, green infrastructures can clean air, water, and soil and improve the health of urban ecosystems. Blue infrastructure collects stormwater, filters and cools down air while ecological types create habitats for wildlife species, combine with community engagement and research. Productive types, including food and energy production will provide the residents on-site resources as well as employments. Our process consists of identifying vacant lots in various scales, reshaping them base on the traditional pattern of the site, establishing linkages between these lots and finally make them become a multi problem-solving landscapes. In this way, the strategy encourages landscape infrastructure as an instigator for the site.
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THE
CORE
CIRCULATION
The mainway moves from south to north and the second is west to east with high dense of cars and motobike moving day and night. Metro project in the future will reduce a large amount of them, but the new issue appears “ where are parking car and motor for users “.
EXISTING LAND USE
The land use of the site is divided into four main functions: finance, commerce, entertainment and living. Many local houses are used for commercial purposes, accounting to 25% and for living purpose, 23 %, while religion amounted to minium percentage of the total (3%).
HISTORICAL BUILDINGS
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There are 6 historical building- still existing: . The State Treasury Ho Chi Minh City . Saigon Customs Department . The State Bank of Vietnam. . Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange . Museum of fine arts . Saigon railway transportation company
Site analysis
LAND PRICE
Land prices in the central city changes from Sai Gon waterfront to hinter land- from high to low price. Ham Nghi and Nguyen Hue st receive the highest price, because most buildings own advantegous positions: wide street, good views, convinient movement.
BUILDING HEIGHT
Since Nikken Seikkei redevelopment project was passed, Sai Gon has rapidly altered from the horizontal city to the vertical city that lead to increase F.A.R of District 1. In 2015, Bitexco financial tower (68 floors) and others has grown and has been operating, except Sai Gon one tower ( 42 floors) has to stop due to lack of subsidies from stakeholders.
HOUSING MORPHOLOGY
There are 4 types of housings in the selected site. Villas with the individual house stands in the middle of the a particular area, with the open space cover around. Second, the new constructions were generated overlapping the old one, sometimes might be destroy the existing context. Thirdly, townhouses were planned and public facilities- single block took a large amount of area of the region.
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Proposal CONNECTIVE ACTIVITES
Economic street with the main function that creates the identities of the area with activities, architecture, potential economic. It connects the foreigners area, traditional market and new financial area. Waking up the old Sai Gon, people today are not only enjoy public services but also have different sences about the traditional town.
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CIRCULATION
Proposal DIAGRAM OF BUILDING HEIGHT
SPATIAL ARCHITECTURES
Overall, the site is divided into 4 zones- new development, residential renovation, preservation and buffer one. - Connecting buildings with each other. - Connecting the activities of local people and perdestrian with openspace and comercial services. The ratios of building coverages were ranged from 40% up to 90% with [ublic buildings (classical buildings), high-rise buildings and residential houses respectively. These ratio resulted partly from the height and setback of each type of buildings.w
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Masterplan
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WATERFRONT OF
TOMORROW CONCEPT
Vue aerienne de la riviere Saigon pres du port de la ville.
IDEA
Image Shape of boat
Current of water
ABSTRACTION Linear of grass
Shape of new building
Entrance of tunnel
Play yard of teenagers
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Community garden Promenade
Cafe outside Play yard of adult
Public art
Sport
Play yard of children
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GREEN
RE
ERATION
Da Nang has become the city type 1 since 2003. Building strategy follows multi-cores model, closely connecting with central economic in the middle country and two sides of the country. Economic structure changes into service- industry- agriculture, combining with spatial setting and protective resources, ecological environment.
Son Tra ecological tourism
Tien Sa port
to Hai Van tunnel
Ho Xanh high-end ecological villa
to North Quang Nam
Son Tra port Lien Chieu port
Tien Sa port
Train station
Seafood industry
International airport to Dong Giang
to Dai Loc to Dung Quat
Da Nang stays in important routes of transportations, tourism and industry in the middle of country. Port, seafood factories, ecological tourism in Son Tra district show potential developments.
National park
Ocean park
Most of land in the central city has been concreted by housing, public facilities, hotels, etc. It leads to rising temperature in micro climate in the centre. The selected site is to stay on the bottom of mountain with high biodiversity and green space.
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1969 +0 Year
New urban structure Grid model
2002
2009
2016
+33 Years
+39 Years
+47 Years
Breakdown of relationship among elements
Urbanization with the grid pattern
Site analysis
New orientated planning - economic areas
map & satellite
streets & housing accomodation
land use
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Site analysis
BUILDING FUNCTION- An arrangement between seafood or making boat industrial and residential areas is quite unsafe in health and safe aspects.
INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION- An arrangement about positions of industrial area is logical, concentrative seafood factories in one place, but getting mad in movement.
WASTEWATER & DRAINAGE SYSTEM- It follows the typography before 2002 and Tho Quang wwtp was built in the low land, but now it is middle of residential and industrial areas.
FLOWS OF WATER- in Man Quang bay are not strong, the depth of the bay is not deep. The bay nearly becomes a pond and sand, sediemnt, garbage pile up day by day.
POLLUTED ENVIRONMENT- coming from wastewater treatment plant when it is not enough capacity to treat wastewater with small area. Then it directly pulls through the bay with inorganic wastewater from making boat factories and garbage of fishermen.
EXISTING LANDSCAPE- due to the affected air pollution by wastewater treatment plan and seafood factories, housing plots at the end of flows of polluted wind. The locals buy those plots but do not want to built them even hang selling house lables to find better places.
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Proposal
BIOLOGY TO DESIGN - BIOMIMICRY 3.8 Biology to design is a botom up approach that depends on knowledge of relevant biological or ecological research rather than on determined human design problems. An advantage of this approach therefore is that biology may influence humans in ways that might be outside a predetermined design problem, resulting in previously unthought-of technologies or systems or even approaches to design solutions. The potential for true shifts in the way humans design and what is focused on as a solution to a problem, exists with such an approach to biomimetic design. (Vincent et al., 2005)
Match similiar general elements
Blade Vein Midrib
Match similiar detail elements
Match similiar parcels
Core
Edge Collected street Highway
Liquid Small nettled veins Vein
Pocket park/ public facility
Building/ buffer green
Small street Collected street
Cell
Block
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Proposal
HIEARCHY OF STREET- Setting up a new line for trucks moves in and out to minimize effects into residential areas.
INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION- Re- arranged positions make works effectively, discard factories that do not belong seafood industrial area, and open more opportunities for enterprises participating in.
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE- Two to three blocks has one water treatment plant treated wastewater in producing ready food that leads to easy control and management.
PUBLIC TRNASPORT- Promenades are designed with an aim for the locals using from their home to their gardens or ponds. It connects BRT terminal to tropical garden to broaden chances for tourist, research and study.
SPATIAL ACTIVITIES- Activities are so diverse, people can participate in every activity from today to tomorrow.
A CHAIN OF PARKS- A chain of parks connects from central city to Son Tra peninsula. Research park at the bottom of moutain is a gateway for tourist before visisting Son Tra.
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BIOMIMETIC
ECOSYSTEM
Tho Quang’s central location: 16N09’95.19” - 108E23’80.15” Capacity: 450 boats
Main entrance
Making ice house
Height from water surface to the bottom of bridge is 7 m Petroleum station
Tourism information station
Area B for 90CV <boat <500CV 12 bouys, keeping with capacity from 90CV up to 500CV
Sub- main entrance
International seafood supermarket
Area C for boat <250CV 8 piers, keeping with capacity <250CV
Seafood central market
Wwtp of market area
Area A for boat <90CV 10 bouys, keeping with capacity <90CV
Phytoremedation park
Food market
BRT terminal
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Closed productive system Wastewater pre- treatment plant Treatment capacity: 3.000 m3/ month/ plant Area: 0.6 ha/ plant Pre - treatment : Screeing Grit removal Mechanical & chemical Output
Productive factory
: Smell Solid debrits, grit and sand
Primary treatment : Skimming Sedementation Mechanical Output
Cold storage 1 Warehouse
: Oils, fats float (skimmeed off top) Sludge (sinks to bottom)
Maturation ponds Treatment capacity: 40.000 m3/ month Area: 11.6 ha Faculative : Remove- Phosphor treatment (binds to sediment )/ BOD Depth : 1- 3 meters Time : 10- 25 days Consistently anaerobic
Output
Anaerobic ponds
: Fish to market- carp, mullet, catfish, tilapia Edible plants and flowes Water to reuse enterprises
Faculative ponds
Treatment capacity: 10.000 m3/ month Area: 2.3 ha
Treatment capacity: 20.000 m3/ month Area: 2.4 ha
Anaerobic : Remove- Pathogens/ treatment Solids/ BOD Depth : 2- 5 meters Time : 1- 5 days Consistently anaerobic
Faculative : Remove- Pathogens/ treatment Heavy mentals/ N or ammonia/ BOD & DOC Depth : 2- 5 meters Time : 10- 40 days Flutuates between anaerobic and aerobic
Output
: Methane Solids removed for use in flieds
Output
: Oxygen
Edible plants & vegeta bles Excess algae & plant material
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Productive filtration system
Spawning & Breeding
164 Local fish - Growth
Immigration on igati Imm
2nd for fishing
Emmigration
1st for fishing
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Emmi g r a ti on to w
3rd for fishing
arm influxs
4th for fishing
High peak in food production
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Dry season Spring season
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city
Storin g ra
infall cap
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Rain season Storm season
Winter season
How does phytoremedation work ? Comtaminant level
Co-operation betwen people and nature
Additional income
Ecology
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Year 02
Year 03
Year 04
Year 05
Year 06
Year 07
Year 08
Year 09
Year 10
Petroleum Phytodegration Plant destroys contaminants 5 kg/ acre for high grass
Rhizodegration Soil microbes destroy contaminant Grass species seeding rates
Phytovolatilization Plant extracts and then removes contaminant as a gas Row spacing for moving or biomass havesting equipment ( if necessary )
Metals Phytoextraction Plant extracts and stores contaminants into harvested tissue for removal
10 -1 2m
Tree spacing
Phytostabilization Plant holds contaminants in roots and prevents mobilization of metals and organic compounds 200 kg/ acre for commongrass
Organic compounds Rhizofiltration Roots and soil filter water Grass species seeding rates
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Phytoremedation phases
Phase 1: Implementation of phytotechnology remediation
Petroleum and metals are the major contaminant on the fixing boat. Those on land is stabilized via fast growing plant
Phase 2: Growth
Dredging material from the bay treated before is filled on site and captured with plants.
Phase 3: Adaption
When phytodegration, rhizodegration, phytovolatization grow enough for production, they will be harvested and new cycle will begin again.
Phase 4: Operation and maintenance
Park speed up the naturalization process. petroleum can be removed after 10 years. 34
Phytoremedation phases
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CONCLUSION Five- year study in my university is gathered into six sections, I realise where my strengths, where my style and my personality in this moment. Despite of just having basic knoweledge of architectural word in those years, I believe that I am capable to design and assist director architect to deliver design concepts, complete projects, especially in urban design, master planning and landscape design firm through panels, poster, photography.
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