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Project Overview
The Tien Bo City project reinterprets the unique Hanoi streetscape and Vietnamese landscape into a contemporary green, light and airy development.
LAVA's competition winning design is a mix of five-star hotel, commercial and residential in a city-block-sized complex in the centre of Hanoi, a new place for people that connects old and new.
Three low-rise buildings cascade down to a public space preserving an historic printing factory, a century-old pagoda and a banyan tree.
The building design references the various scales of Hanoi old town (including famous ‘tube’ houses) and the sweeping hills and valleys of Sapa. Staggered rooflines and the multi-functional layering of commercial activities on the ground floor and apartments above are topped by a terrace.
The nine storeys-high buildings are subdivided into multiple small units for hotel, residential, offices, a culture centre and artist studios that recreate the feeling of the typical Hanoi streetscape with active ground planes and activated terraces and rooftops.
Project Commissioner
Project Creator
Laboratory for Visionary Architecture
Team
LAVA: Chris Bosse, Tobias Wallisser, Alexander Rieck
Project Brief
People and place … a printing factory, a pagoda and a banyan tree
LAVA won the competition to design the Tien Bo City project, a 31,648sqm mixed-use development in the centre of Hanoi, Vietnam.
LAVA’s plan is a new place for people, that connects old and new. Three low-rise buildings cascade down to a public space preserving an historic printing factory, a century-old pagoda and a banyan tree.
The site is near important historical and cultural sites such as the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Van Mieu Temple, and the Hang Day stadium.
LAVA is thrilled to win this competition and create an authentic place to bridge the past and the future of Hanoi. This is our first project in Vietnam and we’re excited to contribute a new typology to the local environment.
Project Innovation/Need
Vietnam has recently experienced a development boom similar to other Asian countries. A lot of the city’s original fabric is being destroyed and replaced by large-scale big-box mono-use towers, usually on a generic podium, with very little respect or relationship to context, climate, culture and local spirit.
The building design references the higgledy-piggledy topography of Hanoi’s famous ‘tube’ houses - both the staggered rooflines and the multi-functional layering with commercial activities on the ground floor and apartments above, topped by a terrace.
The nine storeys-high buildings are subdivided into multiple small units for hotel, residential, offices, a culture centre and artist studios that recreate the feeling of the typical Hanoi streetscape with active ground planes and activated terraces and rooftops. The individual tenants will give the complex richness and colour and fill it with abundant life and activity instead of monoculture.
The space unfolds vertically over multiple aboveground and underground levels. The sunken plaza and elevated green facades reference the local landscape of terraced hills. Connected walkways provide shade and shelter for Hanoi’s warm, wet subtropical climate and spaces for pop ups, markets and performances.
The five star 350-bed hotel follows the tradition of Hanoi’s colonial hotels with a grand entrance and an elevated garden terrace overlooking the city. The printery will be converted into an arts centre, linking the past and future.
Design Challenge
LAVA’s transformation of this central area is an opportunity to create a new typology: multi small boxes rather than one big monolith. Humans versus buildings and cars!
The project will attract local and international visitors alike, foster arts and culture, as well as providing a 21st century shopping and leisure experience. LAVA’s solution of varying building heights reflects the architecture of Hanoi today.
Sustainability
The project demanded clever solutions for climate control and structure to enable an indoor outdoor three-dimensional experience rather than a big box shopping centre.
Energy-saving design solutions include roofs covered with solar powered panels.
LAVA teamed up with German-Vietnamese local firm Inros Lackner for engineering and delivery of a truly local-global project.
Architecture - Proposed - International
This award celebrates the design process and product of planning, designing and constructing form, space and ambience that reflect functional, technical, social, and aesthetic considerations. Consideration given for material selection, technology, light and shadow. The project can be a concept, tender or personal project, i.e. proposed space.
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