Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Riverfront Township Masterplan in Vietnam

This is a recent completion of a masterplan concept for one of the most prominent developers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The site is located within the upcoming District 9 at the peripheral boundary of the city and the development will be a township for exclusive living with a gated community of luxurious villas, an internal lake and waterways that reinforce and echo the presence of an adjacent river network.































Slated to be the next dragon of asia alongside with China, Vietnam has been and still is experiencing phenomenal economic growth and coupled with the rapidly expanding city, this has called for the municipality and the developers to rethink the existing housing policies. Rather than intensifying areas within the congested city to accommodate massive influx of dwellers from the hinterland, peripheral sites along the city edge were identified and masterplanned as key growth areas or satellite townships to alleviate the problem of space constraint within the central crowded city. One such area identified within the overall masterplan is this development site which is in close proximity to the scenic Tac River at district 9.









































































The key idea of this riverfront planning is to leverage on the presence of the main river, the extensive network of weaving waterways and the lush greenery as design generators. And to further enhance the notion of waterfront living, a man-made lake will be nested within the southern end of which clusters of villas are placed to resonate the idea of floating above the water. Environmentally, this lake will also deliver an evaporative cooling effect during the hotter months.

















Programmatically, this township will be self-sustaining comprising of villas and low-rise condominiums with a slew of supporting amenities for a total community living. A 3km long riverfront boardwalk serve as a connecting device for the residents to transverse from the northern zone to the commercial zone at the southern tip and vice-versa. Pockets of intimate green courtyards form the interstitial space between rows of villas.













For a sustainable development, it is envisaged that materials indigenous to the local context such as bamboo be integrated into the overall construction process as much as possible, such as for their use as external window screens and furniture within the villas.

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