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Nam’s house, My Tho, plans and section
My Tho, Nam’s house · ground, first and second floors and section through the stair
D.3

Surveying Vietnamese housing.

One month from south to north, with Architectes Sans Frontières

My role
Surveys, interviews, drawings
SIA phases 21
08–09.2016

Placement outside practice, ENSA Toulouse: eight families met, from Cu Chi to Sa Pa. For each, a dwelling / dweller sheet: who built it, how long it took, with what materials, and a survey of the house. Urban tube houses, deep and narrow, respond to a tax based on façade width.

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Location
Vietnam, from the Mekong Delta to Sa Pa
Programme
Eight dwelling / dweller sheets
Setting
Placement outside practice, ENSA Toulouse · Architectes Sans Frontières
Role
Surveys, interviews, drawings
Year
08–09.2016
SIA 112 phasesFrance: Survey, analysis

Concrete posts and beams, brick infill, narrow street front: the same structure from the Mekong Delta to Hanoi, extended by the occupants floor by floor.

Timber roof frame under scaffolding
Tube house under construction
Brickworks
Traditional roof frame under scaffolding · concrete frame of a tube house · brickworks
Nhat’s house, Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City, Nhat’s house · four storeys
Vietnamese building permit
Building permit for Nam’s house
Full portfolio (PDF, 39 pp., in French)