UW ARCH 508 Thesis
Metabolism Studio
Ho Chi Minh City, home to almost nine million inhabitants, is experiencing a growing occurrence of extreme weather conditions. Unfortunately, the current infrastructure to effectively combat flooding has failed to confront the challenges.
While authorities have taken measures to elevate the roads, an unintended consequence has emerged. Many people living in Saigon want their houses raised, and this convenient preventing flooding solution for homes on the main streets has affected the homes in the alley because of the big differents between ground to road level.
Sống với Lũ (Living with Flood) is a proposal using a metabolism approach with local materials and native building techniques to explore a new idea of a flexible system in alley houses that can resiliently withstand and evolve in the test of time and climate change.
