Category

Region

LIGHT HARVESTING

LIGHT HARVESTING

Category
Daylight investigations - Region 4: Asia and Oceania

Students
Minh Ky Duong
Hai Duong Le Thi

School
University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City

Country
Viet Nam

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What a beautiful morning, people are busy on the street, there are groups of them are doing exercise, pedestrians talking to each other, another groups of people are sitting down to have breakfast, shops are expanded to the sidewalk, groups of people are sitting down to drink coffee and tell stories, elderly people sit on benches chatting with each other and watch the street, children play in front yard…, it’s a lively scene which is called life between the architecture Increasing population in a growing city often leads the shortage of infrastructure that makes life less comfortable – loss of public space for the community.But why do we need to build more architectural spaces instead of having a new recognition – exploiting architecture in natural space. That is also the idea our team proposed this time, we want to create an architectural space opportunity in the natural space.The immense daylight on the streets give us a vast space to create forms and cover them with materials. Building an architectural space (a distributed living space) in a natural space gave us the opportunity to break the rule.We use convex prisms, (thanks to the position and height of the street lights) to segment and divide the daylight space – when the light toward to the ground, it will form community spaces. Cause in our opinion the functions can be combined to create one perfect program. Street can be turned into a square for children’s play, gatherings, dining, art displays and performances. Public spaces can fully gather and blend together to attract the surrounding context and from which there is a creating of the extension. The extension we are talking about is the extent to which the public space can interact with the community (because everyone can design their own space in the public space), which is the reason for maintaining the effectiveness of the community space over time as a work of contemporary art. Urban space cannot be oriented by dividing functional areas, but concerned on the development and expansion of functional areas over time. Public spaces are a perfectly integrated program that defines development over time.