Cultural Center
?Cho Lon? is the name of an area which was crowded with Chinese people living there. Cho Lon locates along T? Canal, stretches from District 5 to District 6 in Saigon, which is called Ho Chi Minh City nowaday. This area previously established as a separate city with Sai Gon: Cho Lon City. In 1930s ? 1950s, due to the urbanization process, Sai Gon and Cho Lon were gradually merged together.
The integration tamed two massive culture by the Vietnamese residents, turned them into unique features in lifestyles, activities and hobbies that is hard to find anywhere in the world. Sai Gon – Cho Lon was born that way as a focal point for the Southern region of the country, thus Cho Lon was considered as the first cradle of the nation’s largest urban area today. The location of the cultural center area of District 5 situated between two cultural areas: Sai Gon and Cho Lon. Therefore, the project is also an opportunity to look to the future when the new ones are replacing the old ones, the challenge between selecting and not selecting to rebuilt the city in the future, inspired by the history.

Culture is a flow, and the flow of Sai Gon ? Cho Lon continuously flow on this land. Therefore ,the project proposes opened alternate spaces between 2 cultures and 2 cultures connect with each other by the organic link , from there we create a trip in cultural spaces . In there , people have many chances to interact with nature, culture and also with other people to m...