Cultural Impact and Hanoi’s Housing

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It can be said that Hanoi’s housing is an issue of concern in the view of its authorities and citizens. The number and quality of housing units do not fulfil the needs of residents. Some examples of the problem are: only 49.9% of householders have permanent homes (General Statistics Office 1999); 70% of Hanoi’s families can not afford houseing based on their income; 120 000 householders urgently need dwelling (Kinh te & Do thi 2008); there are 77 old apartment buildings at risk, some of them having been found to be dangerous buildings, and residents need to move out urgently for their safety (NhadatSaigon.vn 2007). Hanoi authorities have some policies for solving housing problems. However the results are limited or out of control. For instance, Hanoi tries to solve the dangerous building issues since 2005 by nongovernment budget, but till today none of projects was started (Vietnam.net 2008); or it makes many discuss when it caries out a policy to develop only two housing typologies: high-rise apartment building and villa; while attached housing, a popular typology, is banned in all housing projects. In other hand, experts are also confused in housing future of Hanoi too. The answer for Hanoi future housing models is still to be found (Trinh Duy Luan 1996, Dang Thai Hoang 2002)

The purpose of our study is to identify the cultural impact on housing for clearing a reason of Hanoi’s housing problem and to open an approach basing on culture to solve this housing issue.

Stream: Cultural Sustainability

Paper: A paper has not yet been submitted.

He is a Vietnamese PhD student working in faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, from 2006 to 2011. His theme is about "Sustainable housing development in Hanoi", the research field is "The cultural impact in housing typologies". He also had some grants and opportunities for study in some international courses such as: "Conservation and Presentation of Archaeological Heritage" in 2005, Grant from ICCROM; "Planning and management of apartment buildings" in 2005, Grant from SIDA; "Housing management" in 2004, Grant from SIDA; "Civic and Public space" in 2004, Grant from Ford Foundation; "Organized Self-help Housing" Grant from SIDA in 2004; "Urban Heritage and Inner city revitalization" in 2001, Grant from NFP, the Netherlands. Nguyen has some research prise as: in 2006, The first prize in “Young Scientist Seminar”, held by Research Institute of Architecture; in 2005, the first prize in “Scientific report of Young Researcher”, held by Research Institute of Architecture; in 1997, the third prize in “Scientific report of Young Researcher”, held by Scientific Institute of Construction.

His education is about "environmental design" and "environmental psychology". His works relates to: environmental design, environmental psychology, theories on sustainable development in the built environment (urban and architectural).
Specialities as a tutor: environment–behaviour interaction (health, liveability, social safety, child friendly design), time-based design, informal urbanism, methodology and inquiry by design, ethics, sustainable development in the building process and design guidelines. His current projects are: Multicultural public space; Smart Architecture; Design Tools; Integrale plananalyse.