Rémy LEBLANC

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 Analysis of the tranformation's dynamics of
the 50/ 80's communist estate of Quynh Loy D
UrBAN AnALYSIS Vietnam - Ha Noi 15 Hec
Exhautive survey

Exhaustive survey

5th Year Thesis - 140pages Urban and architectural Survey School

town house
2001/2002 Sociological enquiery Buildings 3 storey
buidings 2 storey
1,5 mounth survey - 6 mounth writing extension first floor
extension second florr...
During my schooling, estate, housing, urban design have been a prior concern, I always had in mind all the social problems that are Tube house one storey
Tube house two storey...
happening in the low income estate in France and I was always thinking how to solve it? When I discover the communist estate Trees
housing in Vietnam, know has KTT (khu Tap The, living together quarter), I was stunned. A living area completely re invented by its climbing plants
Bikes
inhabitants, the streets full of activities, the building façade re designed, the inventiveness of all the new urban disposition… Motor bike
table
market table
The fifth year thesis was an attempt to understand and to account the dynamics that had happened in this big play. The thesis is an umbrella
linen
exhaustive statement of the all the modifications (architectural, functional, landscape, urban space) and the life that is happening now, earth
of this so particular place. concrete
bookshop
restaurant
An survey, very precise, has been drawn, with all kind of information, at all kind of scale, from the living cell to the whole urban area, street fooding
street drinking
from the kind of street and the material that composed it, the vegetation, the activities during the day, the kind of bulk in the streets air cut
and in the buildings corridors… barber
karoke
psot office
...
The following drawings are samples of the presented works; they present the approach of the work and the results. ....
...
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Conceptual outcomes had been made so as to complete the graduation project presented on next pages. ...

A Analysis of the structure of Ha Noi B Urban types and Observed transformations

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French quarter

Old vietnamese streets

Ambassies and government buildings

Communist Estate
Green area to be built
Factories
Universities / Hospital

Illegal occupied land / Holes in the urbanism

C Different type of observed transformations in the communist estate

Traditionnal village
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one storey slope roof house

The villa type house Modern communist estate

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 Vietnam - Ha Noi Analysis of the tranformation's dynamics of
5th Year Thesis - 140pages the 50/ 80's communist estate of Quynh Loy
2001/2002
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A recapitulatory of every type of obseved extensions B Example of description of the observed tranformation of one type of building E Zoom on one part of the quarter - How to use the survey
Hospital entrance
Attraction for the outs ide
R estaurants, services
Ambiance 6
Type 4 Outs ide attraction
retaurant
S treet restaurant
Vegetable street selleurs on yoke F illing:
Tube house facade
only shop for construction
7 B uildings: C 5, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6

Buildings G rande circulation

The 7 buildings are not identical in their global shapes but in their
functioning system they are. The are precast structures, the frame
is assemble and the walls then are added. Kitchens and bath
rooms are common at every level, each over the others, this weft is
the largest. The building is three levels, the roof is little spooling.
The flats are two sided, one side in facing the corridor. Only the one Ambiance 5
at the end of the corridor are fully crossing, one flat is occupying
Ambiance 1
one and a half weft, there are 36 flats in all the building. The
F illing:
facilities are in the middle when the building has a T shape, and on T ube hous e build in cha os
Meeting (type define before):
the side when the building has u U shape. The stairs are near the
e. Localisation assembling / filling
dependence.
This type of building is one of the first type built, this is the period
a. P lan - originaly
1955 - 1970. The factory 8/3 is the property developer, then the
inhabitants are from the laboring class, and poor. All the buildings no way road
of this type are perpendicular to the road.
Orientation is the North for the kitchen and the corridor façade is the

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North.
Ins ide c omunic a tions
Transformation:
small dimension
Extensions:
On the corridor façade. no way road
At the floor level: there is a solid construction continuing every flats. Ambiance 2
Some time this construction is independent from the original flat (b).
The deepness is nor more than the services extension. The front As s embling:
that one is not occupied. C ourtyard in a no way road
Every level: There are extension only if below the level there is an A Ambiance 4
street build with concrete
extension. ( contrary to the other faces. At the level 2 and 3 on this tall and leefed trees.
B As s embling:
face there is no extension, but on the corridor, on the handrail big Space pleasant
C ros s ing c ourtya rd,

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boxes are acting as kitchen. At the lunch time the corridor is full of road built, young trees
mamas… C lear space , en devenir

The south façade:

There are solids construction on extension of the flat, some time
there is a wall so a garden is create, stealing public land. The other
b. P lan - After transformation Ambiance 3
levels are building one on the others. Some rare flats have single Tube house as facade
attractionfor the outs ide
extensions, due certainly to the very fragile structure type. streets R estaurants
at the ground level Meeting:
with only shops K T T / s ervices to the center
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c. C oupe - original

D
C

d. C oupe - transformed

A Descrition of the activites of the living area

« s mall J obs »
B Analysis of every type of observed urban mutation
C Localisation of all the activities D Description of landscaped and architecturale ambiances
C omplexe as s embling type n*10

Composition of the space : Obs ervation on the tranformations :

C ompos ition : T he courtyard is not filled by any cons tructions .

7 building of 5 types , 2 type 2, 2 type 3, 1 S paces between the buildings are filled. T he courtyard
type 7, 1 type 10, 1 type 11 . now is like clos e to the outs ide
Orientation of the buildings : T his s pace is atypical in the quarter, it res ults of the
6 are Nord / S ud. s uperpos ition of three period of cons truction. F rom
One Wes t / E s t. one s ide old villa type, other s ide "new" modern s tyle.
la dis pos ition autour d’une large cour de K T T
Nanh xe T hes e are the place where to park one's bike or motor bikes . T hey are on the walk way, ins ide the hous es , or de différentes formes, de différentes tailles, et
s ometimes even ins ide the living room. T hey are every where in the es tate. It is impos s ible to let one's motor bike de différentes orientations. Entre chaque KTT il
without s urveillance. 500d for the bike, 1000 for the moto bikes . It is a good revenue for the family when every day y a des es paces .
30 to 50 bike are keeped. Espace intérieur créé :
Une très large cour et de petits interstices entre Small restaurant
les bâtiments . Motor bike car parc
Dis pos ition : Cap shop
E n retrait d’une é
pais s eur de barre par rapport à air cut
un axe de circulation principal. motor wash
Sur les côtés : librairy
Au s ud du Vide / A L’Ouest un retrait par rapport post office
à une rue / A L ’E s t et au Nord d’autres as s em- shoes shop
blages . cloth shop
market
street market
B efore After food shop
game shop
Voie de distribution Other assembling repair shop
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E mpty F ace / B ack / cormer

Xe ô
m : Moto taxi. Ce sont des cas sociaux. L'homme vietnamien C yclo-pous s es: dans la ville ils n'exis tent pres que plus , rempla-
shop
aime à se détendre. C'est un métier à sa mesure. Rester cés par les Xe ôm en moto. Ils ne s ervent maintenant plus que comme street restaurant
assis toute la journée, en groupe à attendre un client, c'est tout trans ports de marchandis es que de pers onnes . F lexibles , mania- bar
une aventure. Les Xe ôm se trouvent en bande, aux carrefours, E mpty
bles, pas chers, ceux qui restent sont dans un état terrible. street bar
toujours disponible (à l’heure de la sieste peut être pas :-). Une withdrawal
course de 5 minutes vaut 5.000 d (pour les blancs c’est 8.000d). morning food
C’est un moyen de locomotion très pratique, quoiqu’un peu plant shop
dangereux, peut être à éprouver dans nos villes occidentales.
La question reste est ce bien rentable. parfois pas plus de 4
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K T T type 4
courses dans la journée, 50.000d maximum, la moto à
15.000.000d, sans compter l’essence ( et la bière de temps en
temps), il faut 300 jours... A méditer. K T T type 12 F illing
C ourt privat

K T T type 10

E xtensions

E mpty
E mpty

S pace S treet C our

C ireur de chaussures : Des jeunes garçons or-
phelins et pauvres , s illonnent les rues . Dans
ce K T T, qui est vraiment très populaire, il y en a
beaucoup moins que dans les lieux touristiques.
P our 2000d ils effectuent le travail, mais pour
les blancs c'es t 5 $, enfin ça marche avec les
amé ricains...
Table de loto : Trois de repérées. Un
arbre, un parasol, une table, et des-
s us une planche avec un cadre
grillagé qui protège des billets de
loterie. Les gros loto, c'est aussi des
millions de dongs , s oit 50 000 frs .
S ua xe: Réparateurs de motos. De très nombreux dans le
quartier. Un métier très répandu, d'une part parce qu’il y a
beaucoup de motos , mais aus s i parce que c'es t un petit
boulot encore facil. Très souvent ce sont des jeunes, ex- Open system S pace V isual enclosure S treet N o wa y S mall street
ploités, les mains noires, qui au nombre de trois ou quatre, roa d
pour une charge de travail d'une personne, s’agglutinent autour
de l’engin. Il y en a tellement le long des rues qu'il n'y pas

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Table à journaux: même présenta- as s ez de travail pour tous .
tion. Quelques journaux étalés et l’
attente du pas s age d’un client en Laveur de moto : Les hommes vietnamiens s emblent-il affir-
agitant un petit véentail... ment leur virilité par leur moto. Elles sont toujours propres, C ourtyrad with concrete road S hops near the s treets
pour 5.000d, elles s emblent neuves .
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C ourtuard clos ed C ommercial s treets C ros s ing pos s ible

courtyard open S mall enclos ed s treets No way road

 Generation of a controled chaos
Vietnam - Ha Noi 45 Hec
Graduation Project
UrBAN Design
2002 X Perspective - One of the possible project

The graduation project was the continuity of the thesis.The conceptualization

of, first the observed phenomenon of transformation, and second the
amazingly living urban environment were the basis to elaborate constraints,
rules for the creation of a new estate.

The objective was to control the creation of the "chaos", the goal is to fix a
minimum of constraints but after all having idea of the resulted forms.The
important thing is not a specific urban design, but a urban quality, a specific
functionality of the living area is researched. It is more an inside dynamic of
life rather than an exact drawing which is targeted. How does a town function
does not depend of the exact design of the buildings but depend on the type
of the buildings and the their functionality, and also the interactions that
existed between all the buildings.

The followings drawings describe the approach of the conception of the

project. From the analysis of the site and its landscaped characteristics, it then
fix the rules how to generate the block system, and how this one must be
occupied, and then modify.Then rules are fixed on how the blocks are filled,
which kind of building are possible and their possible locations.Then all is
plan for the town to be built, and in this case here the project is dreamed.
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The kind of urban space is imagined, and how the population will live and will
appropriate to themselves the environment.

How to fabricate randomly the town

A Elements for constructions

A The tube house B Buildings that can evolve and be appropriate B Allow an aleatory placement of the functions D The servicies Block E Comment urbaniser un ilot - Règles volumiques
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Tube house allows the density, it

The block should contain different kind of functions
has a special relation with the
that will have to relate to each others. Private
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street, it can be commercial of living

The quarter is devided in blocks, streets construction have to be able to realte with the
space.
respect the ancient divisions and the facilities: tube house have one facade that open in the Urban rules are volumiques rules. The facade of the
canals of the site commercial center or the car park, then private shops block should receive 28,45 % of tube house, each face
The density can be compare with The level floor is free to be open. should have 4.23% free for crossing ways.
appartment flats. extended. The roof can be build There will be three types of blokc, the (figures are examples:)
with private villa...

The appartment are plan to recieve

one with mainly services, the one with
high rise buildings and houses, the one
F Examples of blocks
with low rise buildings and houses.
later an extension.
Lets take a grid of 9 blocks, in this grid
there should be, however looked in the
mater plan, two blocks for services, three
block of low rise buildings, and three
block of high rise buildings. The green
area keept are services area.

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High rise blocks and tube
houses and villas School, cinema, car park, Low rise buildings and tube
offices and tube houses. houses.
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Graduation Project Generation of a controled chaos
2002 45 Hec

A The life of the inhabitants being imagined - Displacements and activities c Try to imagine the life in the street B The aera finished
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bus station daughter P School son P

School son P

Bus stop Dad P

Car park Dad Pcinema son P

cinema

Commercial center
son and dauchter p

Air cut daughter P

Trendy bar Son P

d
Son P
Daughter P
Try to imagine the life inside a block
Dad P
Grand mother P

Biere Dad P

Street restaurant
own mum P

footpath mum P

street brakfast
familly P

Footpaht gramma Motor bike shoping Market Motorbike parking take the bus
Green area e Mix use and mix buildings in the services block
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Kids play and lake market

girl un understable talks
kid playsmarket Rest area in recreation area Street sellor

C The three bloks dreamed

f Possible transformations of the living block

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g The three blocks dreamed

h Facade on the street from the blocks

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 ı Proposal for Ha Long New City
UrBAN Design Vietnam - Ha Long 1200 Hec
Ministry of construction Position : consultant - reseacher
2004 4 mounths project by oneself

The following project is a 900 hec new Town settle in an 2000hec site.
The proposal now presented is the outcome of all the previous projects and researches. The studied points are : The use of
different kind of building design, separated circulations, creation of a town center and sub centers, the use of architecture as an
element of the landscape, the use of the landscape so as to preserve it and to raise the standard of living, the research in the
relation between every function of the town, the relation between the buildings and the function of the town, create the possibility
for town and the block to evolve…

The project is based on an analysis of the site, an extraordinary site: the scenery and the environment. The will is to inscribe the
project as much in a Vietnamese dynamic and a culture, than in its incredible environment so as to create a modern city with a
human scale and environmentally free.

The project is constituted of two parts. The following drawings are concentrated and the parts near the shore and the road.

They summarized the approach of the project (they are not all the drawings that had been presented):
- Analysis of the element of the site: environment, population, view and landscape, potentialities.
- Definition of the element of the project, how they will be related to each other, what kind of urbanism is targeted.
- Design and explanation of the design.

Analysis Culture
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Environment
Site
Introduction
The Ha Long bay, located in Viet Nam, is now a Unesco World Heritage site. The wonderfull landscape created by the nature is a gift for every mankind. The
incredible scenary is also the host of an unvaluable treasure that is constitued by a very fragil endemic aquatic and terrestre flora. The year around undred of
thousends tourists come from all over the world to contemplate the landscape that is not only the sea but that includes also the surrounding mountains; and now
urban developement lead by some uncalculate appetit is planned...
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 Ha Long Proposal for the Ha Long new town
Ministry of contruction 1200 Hec

Urban's constitution Tools .01 Urban's constitution Tools .02

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Theorical Formal
The urban project is generate following three principle link together:
1/ the building and construction location
2/ The environmental and green distribution disposition Urbanism / Town centers
3/ The road system
The center is a high density of constuctions containing inhabitants and services like proximity commercial area.
This system is linked with a proximity recreation area. The all system is surrounded with middle mixed and dense
residential areas. The goal is to reduce the amount of displacement by providing a maximum of services in a
short distance. Density allows more interractions, more people then more commercial possibility, more
Building location recreactions...
The heart of the system is the location of the density and the main functions. The density decrease while
going futher. In the project the last ring are the parks that are along the environment, the river. The last ring of
houses are then taking advantage of the nice location. The global functionality make this area also penetrate
by other inhabitants, then exchanges between the areas are caused.
The center include the school, the market, the commercial and the service areas. It is the identity of the urban
area. The high density provide easy acces to all this functions. Environmental issus are in concern because
of the lessen of the displacement. Urbanism and Envionment / The surrounding dike
Each area is a mixte area. The service area contain also housing, the housing have not only one forms.
ıThe project emphasis on the use of the particular site. The goal is to preserve the natural enviroment and to use it
Mixity provides exange and then dynamism.
a part of the project. One of the goal is to avoid to cover all the surface of the project with impermable materials.
Green natural area / Middle density housing / Mixte kind of housing City Center / services / comemerce /High density Housing The project try to keep a maximum of earth. Then the surrounding part of the urban development is a dike, this
one will be only natural surface, the plant will ensure the solidity. This part will also be a natural spreading zone;
Low density housing City Center / services / comemerce /High density Housing where the waste water will naturaly by treated. A srtong attention will then be given to all the plants that will be
positioned.
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Environment and green distribution

The aim of the project is to take concern of the environment. The site is to be preserved, then the green area
are near the shore, making a shield between the urbanism and the fragil nature. The green walk link goes
from the centers to the preferical nature, then all the urban areas are irrigated by nature. At the cross of the Urbanism, Architecture and Environment
green road, there are service and recreation areas. These links are to simplify the accessibility of the function
by walking. No need to take a polluating way of transportation, go by walk. The project does not contain only one type of building. The goal is to emphasis diversity; by putting different kind
of building there will by different type of people, the urban lanscape will not be boring. On other reason is that
each kind of building ensure a different possibility of functionnality: for example the tube house is a very dense
construction, it can be very flexible, the first storey can be either housing or commerce. Then the urban
functionnality is flexible due to the flexibility of the function of each kind of building.
Water Recreation area
Green Area
Natural area City center
Green Link
Tube house
The land in the project is very deep, so as to oblige the tube house to include a court yard inside, this one will
have a environmental and hygienic role: the courtyard wont be fully construct, Part of the rain water will be
naturally absorb. The court yard ensure that a maximum of facade will have windows, the wind will be able to
penetrate the building and ensure a natural ventilation.
An urban rule will oblige 70 percent of constuction; a maixmum of 3 storey on two building, the third only two
storey. Two houses will be obliged to share the same position for the court yard.
Road system
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The road system is distinct from the green system, It function is to provide access, it does not emphasis the
urban function like the Hausman urban system, it is simply a functionnal system.
Villas
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The roads create blocs and hierachy.

A building can have different shape. In Beijing the new very rich buisnessman now build back traditional houses
Each of the block can be self developed. that continue to correspond to the cultural way of leaving, enclosure and relation to the quiet court yard.
The houses can be build only on 40 pourcent of the land property, 40 other wont be build. The free of construction
Natural area Green Link Secondary Road land is to allow rain to penetrate the earth, the waste water system wont be wide, the urban developpers spare a
lot of money.
City center Main Road

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 Ha Long Proposal for the Ha Long new town
UrBAN DeSIGN Ministry of contruction 1200 Hec

Ha Long Geles .01 Ha Long Geles .03

Global Sytem explaination Global Sytem explaination - URBaNISM

The city center is located in the middle of the new urbanism, it is using the
site to provide recreational functions and to emphasis its goals: to be the
central attraction and a psychological reference for the inhabitants. The site
is a hill and an arm of the river. Sourroundind the river a marina provid
restauration and recreation functions, there is also a movie theater and some
sport facilities. It is not a mono functionnal town center. Administration
buildings face the reunification place. The town center is also facing and not
far from the CBD so as to provide some of it needs and also use it as an
architectural ladscape.
The shopping center in a major attraction. It has been located here so as to includ it
Road system
in a urban area and create a link between this function and the other urban building. The road system is clear and effectual. It create
In any other country shopping centers are isolated and often are dead areas, soul a block system that can evolve with the time
ess that only shows that the society is only a consumers and hartless society. independently from the change of the city.
Here the shopping center use the water canal that provide a nice environment.Their
are diffenrent type of buildings: the shopping center and tube houses, the goal is to The inside block road system aim to create
create interraction between the commercial center and the town. The shopping quiet areas for living.
center is facing the sea and is linked with it through a recreation area.
The water system implement the road system

City center Shoping and Recration Center

Main Road

Inner city main road

inner city road / Block road

insid island road

water

canal

Green AREA - City Center -

Green distribution
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The urbanism, its functions, and the green

areas are linked together.
The aim is to create a multiprocessing green
city with an high density of construction and a
very good environment for living.

Situation to be describe

relation of the function with the living areas / Urban

relation of the function with the environment

View to emphasis the function

National Sport Center Proximity Center and Natural park Tourism center
The proximity center is linked with a lung of the city. A The town is using the main attraction that the
natural park that can be urbanized later. movie center is. This function is linked also with
The sport center is linked on one side with a short
The center is using the quality of this landscape to provide some other functions like hotels, restaurants and
arm of the river, on an other side with the natural
a better environment for living recreation areas.
environment that surround the center, on a third
The whole area is inscribed in the city which is
side with the town, and finally with a green area.
using the main attractration to become also
To penetrate in every sport arena, one has to go
attractive.
through the city, for example from the car park to
the stadium one shall go across a build area, like
shops or tube houses. the aim is to create life in
Land Use
the surrounding of the stadium, a life that also
doesn't disapear when sport events ended. The
sport center provide also some recreation
fucntions in its core near the river so as to attract It is difficult to express the land use with
people even when there are no sport events.
a littled number of type of zonning. The
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The sport arenas create a nice urban scale that is

linked with the surrounding mountains and forest. created system is a complex system with
The city that is included in its environement and the different kind of living shapes and
doesn't violate it.
National University different functions.
Central District Buisness / Opera House / Conference CEnter
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The university is placed in the middle of an urban area. The diversity of functions and shapes
The Central Distric Buisness is located so as to That one provide services like housing , restauration and
be used like an architectural event that can be recreation. create a nice living environment.
seen from other parts of the city and make the city The aim is to link the study function with the town, to make
lived. As a second task, the district is located the town alive, young and imaginative. An example can be
inside a living areas so there are possibilities of English campus or the Bach Khoa campus. The students
interraction between the two urban areas with make the life possible all around the campus and the town.
intention generate a living area. The inhabitants provide services. The landscape provide
The CDB is near the confernce center and the the site: an arm of the river alow to place some recreation
opera, and is sourrounded by estate areas. and sport areas in a nice site.
The conference center and the opera remind the
sydney opera the most fabulous building that
show example of how using a relation between a
bulding and a lanscape so as to create and
unforgettable site.

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Zoom Ha Long Geles .CBD - City Center - Marina

This part is an illustration of the urban concepts that had been developed to create this project in this
Urban Design particular site.
Master Plan - ZOOM Composition The Urban intented functions settle the main founctions: the CBD is near the sea and the Rocks, the

CBD - Khu Tai Chinh - town center - Khu trung tam - Marina - Khu gia tri Reality marina is near the water facing the CBD, the town center is facing the two other functions, between these
functions living areas are intalled. The goal is to create an interraction, the estate is providing housing and
small services. So none of the functions are single function areas, the created interractions between the
site and the other functions provide an enjoyable living area.
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Canal road
Main desserving road

Central district buisness

Sport center

Mixt town center Office center

Tourist area

leisure and recreation

Housing and estate

Housing high standing

Proximity center
environmental park

important Function
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Relation with
the landscape
Relation with CBD
Town Center
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B Canal / Lake G Walking garden street 1 School Project special the estate Conf Center
Legend
Recreation Buildings
C Mangrove I Walking path 2 Market 9 Office CBD
Commercial Buildings
D Garden / Natural area J Public Plazza 3 Commercial integrated center 10 Conference center and services
Publics buildings opera
E Public garden 4 Entrance private housing 11 Opera and services
Villa 01 K Parking
Villa 02
F Private Garden 5 Restaurant and recreation center 12 Cinema
Sport fields
Function organisation
Tube Houses
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6 Sport center 13 UBND
M Mountain
8 ı Resort / Hotel

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