A ?suffocating? situation

© Nguyen Tien Thanh

Architects: H&P Architects

Location: ?ông Anh, Hanoi, Vietnam

Architects In Charge: Doan Thanh Ha, Tran Ngoc Phuong

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Nguyen Tien Thanh

Architects: H&P Architects

Location: ?ông Anh, Hanoi, Vietnam

Architects In Charge: Doan Thanh Ha, Tran Ngoc Phuong

Team: Chu Kim Thinh, Nguyen Hai Hue, Ho Manh Cuong, Hoang Huu Nam, Nguyen Van Thinh

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Nguyen Tien Thanh

© Nguyen Tien Thanh

A ?suffocating? situationJust 15 kilometers far from the center of Hanoi, the suburban district Dong Anh has witnessed pervasive urbanization - one of the major causes for a trend towards a maximum use of volume and quantity of construction areas. Lesser importance has been attached to the quality of used space and surrounding scenery. This has resulted in a large number of ?suffocating? buildings as often found in newly planned, stuffy urban areas characterized with land plot subdivision for building row houses in Vietnam. 
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