Reinventing the Vietnamese “Tube House” Flexible, Sustainable, and Affordable
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2020
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University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Nhà ống, or “tube houses,” are the primary house type in Vietnam today. As originally developed in the French colonial era, these homes successfully supported multi-generational families, and enabled the ordered growth of cities. Since the 1970s, however, various changes have been made to the type centered on the introduction of air conditioning that have served to decrease indoor air quality, increase high energy consumption, and preclude the accommodation more than one generation. This dissertation proposes design solutions for these deficiencies aimed at improving, indoor air quality, occupant comfort, reducing energy consumption, and supporting the traditional Vietnamese family structure and urban order. Tube houses were effective responses to prevailing social, economic and environmental conditions during the French colonial era between 1858 to 1954, but as the country moved to a market economy a number of seemingly minor changes were introduced that unintentionally undermined its social and environmental sustainability. I will argue that today’s tube houses respond to current market demands, but at the cost long-term environmental and cultural degradation. I hope to demonstrate that the tube house form still holds important environmental and cultural value, and that its current misfits with the Vietnamese climate and traditional family structure can be corrected without compromising contemporary expectations of urban living. I hope to show that a redesigned tube house is capable of integrating the past and the future, in the form of cultural tradition and long-term economic and environmental sustainability.
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