Hanoi’s French Culture Center Showcases Local Building Methods
Posted By nguyen chi tam On October 20, 2010 @ 7:00 pm In Architecture | 1 Comment
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A new French Culture Center recently opened at L’ESPACE in the heart of Hanoi City, Vietnam. Designed by HighEnd [5] and completed in June 2010 for the Hanoi Millennium, the modern building has been strictly built using traditional Vietnamese construction materials: earth, bamboo [6] and silk. The new center is a low-cost construction focused on reducing environmental impact. Not only do the methods give a nod to tradition, but each material [7] is renewable and green (even the earth brick hasn’t been fired) and the interior maximizes natural light through a transparent rooftop. A fusion of two countries brought together by history, the French Cultural Center will be a place of art and culture in Hanoi, where people can come to relax and find a little bit of France.
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