BREATHING IN HANOI

by Savannah Williams

The oasis Breathing in Hanoi aims to provide the city with a way to adapt its ever-growing fractured landscape, allowing the people within Hanoi to breath away from the air contamination of the city, yet remain within its roots. This city is vulnerable due to the urban stresses of public infrastructure systems, social interaction and population growth. Breathing in Hanoi will challenge the typology of the compact city by creating spaces of purity, sanitation and calmness through breathing pockets woven into the landscape, protected by an innovative skin. This will provide solutions for the inability to breath comfortably in Hanoi, implementing apertures of breathing through subtracting components and adding softness into the harsh landscape. The oasis has the notion of a breathing organism, it will bring awareness to the contaminated urban fabric and create a launch in solving the predominant crisis of pollution in this community.