Mành Mành Salon, Hanoi Hairdressers, Vietnamese Design Interior, Asian Building, Architecture, Images
Mành Mành Salon in Hanoi
Vietnam Architecture Interior, Vietnam ? design by H&P Architects
25 Jan 2017
Mành Mành Salon
Location: Van Quan urban zone, Ha Dong district, Hanoi, Vietnam
Design: H&P Architects
Mành Mành Salon

Mành Mành salon is renovated from a deteriorated hair dressing salon in a populous community in Van Quan urban area. The project develops an approach to reuse available materials such as door, glass, table and chair, brick, low-quality wood, to create a fresh and distinctive but friendlier space to the nature.

The ordinary and simple charm at street hairdresser?s in Hanoi, which is closely associated with Trees giving wide shade and Old brick walls, inspires designers to create an unusual but familiar space- a space suggesting the idea of A long hair as well as Mành Mành climbing plant garden or Cissus sicyoides pergola (a quite popular climbing plant in Vietnam, also known as Princess vine, Millionaire vine and Curtain Ivy) with its long roots covering the space underneath.
Highlights of the project are some 200 thousand wooden beads (diameter d=2.7cm) recycled from low-quality wood (of 2 types: colorless and color of vine fruits at their ripeness). These wooden beads are chained into strings of various lengths (11 beads/ string in average) to produce effects on human senses of zigzag?styled ceiling and beaded curtain separating ...