Portfolio - Nguyen Khanh Tung

NGUYEN KHANH TUNG

PORTFOLIO

July

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It was very exciting that when I had a look at the old materials to put into this portfolio, I found a lot of Venice’s images that I unintentionally copied from someone several

years ago. Perhaps when I took those images, I had never known that I might be there someday. Life is a journey where you will never know what is at the end of the rainbow.

Image: Tung Nguyen, Venice 2013

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PERSONAL DETAILS

DOB: 17 October 1984

Gender: Male

Marital status: Married

Email: [email protected]

Mobile: +84 909 599 678

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

06/2013 - 06/2014 Master of Urban Development & Design - University of New South Wales, Australia.

09/2003 – 07/2008 Bachelor of Architecture (Urban Planning) - Ho Chi Minh city University of Architecture - Final GPA: 6.8. Ranked: Fairly Good.

07/2002 – 08/2003 Gap year. Preparation for university entry examination.

09/1999 – 06/2002 High School Diploma - Nguyen Thuong Hien High School - Final GPA: 8.0. Ranked: Good.

NGUYEN KHANH TUNG

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AWARDS

• Australian Awards Scholarship (2012 intake).

• Commissioner Hoffman Urban Design Award 2013 - Faculty of Built Environment | University of New South Wales.

• 2013 Dean’s List Award - Faculty of Built Environment | University of New South Wales.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

11/2008 – current Architect / Urban Planner - Southern Institute for Spatial Planning (SISP) - Ministry of Construction.

06/2007 – 10/2008 Project Collaborator - An Hoa Son Architectural Design Consultant & Planning Co.

06/2007 – 10/2008 Architect / Interiors Designer - Art–Stream Constructional Join Stock Co.

COMPUTER SKILLS

AutoCad, 3DS MAX, V-Ray Rendering, SketchUp,

Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Microsoft Office.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• Vietnamese (Mother Tongue).

• English.

PERSONAL INTERESTS

Photography, Kendo, Iaido, Reading...

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Spending most of my childhood with a bunch of colour pencils, I grew up to be a student of Urban Planning major at the most prestigious university teaching Architecture and related-courses in my hometown city. Since then, instead of drawing magnificent but purely imaginative childish images, I started to draw plans that can affect lives of a large amount of people, or even strategies to develop the whole nation’s economy and society.

At the beginning of the most beautiful years of a man’s life, ‘student life’, I devoted my young mind and whole-hearted head to make splendid urban planning projects. I led a team and overcame all first challenges of leadership: working in a small group of people with different points of view, needs and interests, and directing them to one final united goal.

Later on, I joined the workforce as a government employee and participated in realistic projects. I found myself more and more fascinated in this meaningful career. I enjoyed every single work from as simple as designing a green place for the Hi-tech Park of Ho Chi Minh City, to as important as detailed plans of new towns, residential areas and industrial parks in the West and East of Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong River Delta regions. More and more deeply I realized that the core of my job is to draw practical and humane solutions for the development.

Most recently, I took part in a major project called New Countryside Development Program conducted by the Government. My duty was working in a team of government officers, architects and urban planners to make master

Urban Design is

the career that I’m keen on

pursuing

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and detailed plans for the ‘New Rural Areas’ in the buffer zone connecting Mekong River Delta region to Ho Chi Minh City. The target of the Program was to reform a whole rural area while retaining the original cultural characteristic of the local inhabitants. The Program was an economic-social process in order to create new values of economy, society, culture and environment in the era of industrialization and modernization of Vietnam. Although there were some difficulties in the way that the program should be operated, I believed that it would make a huge contribution in creating a new face for the countryside of Vietnam in the future.

On performing my duties in this major project, I found that there was still a huge distance from methodology which very much depends on papers and drawings to the reality, even if they are proposed by foreign experts. Those experts have advanced skills and knowledges, but they lack of the sense of being a local with a full package of history and life style and culture… attached. In the other hand, I’m a local but found myself fumbling for the way to connect everything, which are urban design with the broader social, economic and environmental urban processes, in an achievable project that is going to work in a long-term prospect. In order to bridge that distance, I need to earn more professional knowledges and experiences by undertaking further studies in graduate level.

Among the list of fields of knowledge that are useful for my future career such as urban management, ecological planning, economic and social issues of urban life, urban heritage conservation…, I’ve identified two most important

things. Firstly, it is how to approach the issue of urban design and development in the aspect of urban economy and social elements in order to create a living community activities and public spaces. Secondly, it is how to achieve the solutions to make an urban development project achievable - be successfully implemented in the reality, not only a “hanging (pending) project” as we usually sneer at.

The Master of Urban Development & Design program in UNSW is very well-structured and meets all my needs: intensive yet practical with a strong focus on studio studies and Asia-Pacific region. More especially, it also offers students field projects based in world’s major cities such as Barcelona, Venice, Hamburg, Singapore… These features will help correct my misconception, build up my international experience as well as open my vision.

The products of urban design, similar to planting a seed in the soil, cannot be seen in a near future. If a good seed is planted in a good environment by an expertise farmer, it will become a giant useful tree. In this new era, an expertise farmer is required not only to know which is a good seed should be planted in which kind of environment, but also to see in a very far future in advance in order to choose the seed and change the environment so that they can make a perfect match. My career goal is to become that type of expertise urban designer, and the program is the first step to achieve that goal. The courses offered in the program answer directly to my questions. I believe it will equip me new tools to better face the challenges in urban design, the career I have just begun.

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Existing Height

Under 5 storeys5 - 9 storeys10 - 15 storeys16 - 20 storeys

Public buildings

Residential & Retails

Residential

This academic projects remarked my final achievement after fives year studying at the HCMUARCH which changed the way who I am forever. The aims of this project is to regenerate the ‘September 23th Park’ and the urban precinct surround it in the District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Known as the ‘Western District’, this place is famous of hotels and other tourism services. The linear park play an important role in creating activities and view corridor between Ben Thank Marketplace (the symbol of Ho Chi Minh City) in the east and the Thai Binh Market Circuit, which is an important traffic node connecting the historic Saigon city centre and Chinatown in the west. The designed project is highly integrated with underground railway line, parking and retails. There are also numbers of small restoration inside residential along the park help improving the living environment and bringing the activities in the park into the new ‘Western District’. Besides that, the ‘fashion street’ Nguyen Trai is an important factor that contribute to creating a vibrant and vivid urban precinct inside the old centre of Ho Chi Minh City.

Final project

Bachelor of Urban Planning

Ho Chi Minh city University of Architecture

923 Square

Potential siteFashion street

Western District

Community space

Original concept

Computer rendering showing a new image of a well-known area of Ho

Chi Minh City.

Green space

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Master Plan of 923 Square with Nguyen Trai ‘fashion street’ up to the North and the regenerated ‘Western Precinct’ down to the south. Several pedestrian walkways are designed to enhance the urban image.

Above: light and pedestrian access for underground spaces.

Below: Monument maintain visible connection between

the old city centre and the new generated area.

Long Sections illustrating the underground space highly integrated with car and motor-cycle parking, shopping centre and MRT.

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The Southern Sub Institute for Spatial Planning is a unit of the Ministry of Construction which carries out the scientific research activities, technology transfer, construction investment and architectural – urban and rural planning consultation in the south areas of Vietnam. With the role as a government institute, the organization demand a large number of experts who have knowledge and experiences in duelling with the urban and rural development issues to conduct the numerous planning projects. On the other hand, in the context of the national development, a new approach in urban and rural planning methodology is needed to be considered. By which I mean, the term of “planning architect” is rather popular in Vietnam, although in the majority of universities in the world, planning is emphasized as a field of multidisciplinary and usually taught in the postgraduate level. In the term of urban planning, urban design is seem to be more familiar with architects. However, urban design is not simply an architectural activities but a chain of designing based on the multidisciplinary analyses that is the connection of urban problems, help creating the tools for negotiation between several groups of subjects or participants in the society and leading all of them to the vision of common wealth. Urban (and rural also) planning is essential to be understood as a process but not an inflexible destination in the predictive future which is often imprecise. This opinion is completely different from the current method of general urban and rural planning that is a Soviet’s era legacy in Vietnam. If the failure of general planning method in the real development context of Vietnam today is not realized and changed by another suitable solution which is more practical with the social demands, the improvement of urban and rural planning educational quality cannot be solved.

The Southern Institute for Spatial Planning - Ministry of Construction

Typical projects conducted

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Nam Duong new city, Quang Nam Province - Vietnam. Area: 160 ha, population: 17,000. The project aims to create a green living environment with public services and retails highly integrated.

Phuoc An new city, Dong Nai Province - Vietnam. Area: 39 ha, population: 5,200. This very first urban design project undertaken in reality brought back a lot of experiences for the dawn of my career.

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View from Ainslie Mountain

View from East Basin

Griffin’s functional concept for Russell (Canberra, Australia) has only been partly implemented - with a lack of connections between surrounding suburbs and the lakefront and an abundance of surface car parking prevailing, something of an ‘urban desert’.

A first order objective of the project is to reinterpret Griffin’s vision for Russell by connecting Russell to the significant surrounding public open spaces, and introducing vibrant urban spaces and uses by civilising the current ‘through-traffic’ conditions.

Key strategies of the plan include:

1. The introduction of light rail through the centre of the precinct in a wide main street.

2. The establishment of a boardwalk system exploring the Jerrabomberra wetlands and interpreting the alignment of The Causeway.

3. The reworking of Parkes Way as a suppressed through-route, reclaiming urban land at the surface.

4. A series of open spaces along this new frontage connecting local streets to the park and lake beyond.

Reinterpreting RusssellUrban Design Studio 1

Master of Urban Development & Design

University of New South Wales

Above: Existing Landmarks and Views .

Right: The Connection between Russell and Canberra city.

Image Credit: Chen Yanxi, Chen Yuhao, Nguyen Khanh Tung

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Above: Section 1 Vision from Kings Park to Constitution Ave.

Below: Section 2 Section cross the Parks Way, Cause Way and Constitution Ave.

Open Spaces & Water Collection Traffic Pedestrian & Cycling Functions

Russell Masterplan

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The scheme, as the part of the Venice International Studio between the UNSW and IUAV Venice, is based on five precincts or ‘micro-Citta’ (Micro City in Italian) and believed to tranform Porto Marghera, Venice, Italy from and old industrial zone into a vibrant district. Each micro-city is its own neighbourhood. A civic building acts as the catalyst for the development of each micro-city. This concept, ‘the city within the city’ is inspired by the process of Venice’s formation. Professor Mancuso describes this process whereby individual insula or islands were progressively urbanised and connected by bridges to form the urban complex of Venice as we know it today. The proposed strategy of progressive polycentric urban growth acknowledges the reality of contemporary development in the Venice metropolitan region.

In the proposed scheme each micro city develops from a catalyst building with a different spirit and function. These buildings are connected to each other by various means of transport. Each small city has a distinctive economic function which kick-starts a diverse economy. It is not precisely known what economies will be successful so diversity is beneficial. The micro-cities form an archipelago of functions and forms. The project demonstrates a dynamic approach to the renewal of the abandoned industrial area of Porto Marghera, one of the biggest industrial areas in Europe. This project seeks a sustainable approach to urbanism by basing new developments upon the deep urban culture of Venice and a design approach focused on change and flexibility.

Porto Marghera, once an industrial giant is now largely obsolete and open to new uses. This scheme is based on the demands of the large number of tourist visiting the historic site of Venice and provides hotels, support services, temporary accommodation and most importantly a new cruise ship terminal situated away from the fragile urban heritage of historic Venice.

Micro CittaInternational Urban Design Studio



Porto Marghera present and future.

Image Credit: Leonardo Formoso, Huynh Thi Mai Phuong, Nguyen Khanh Tung, Stefano Zeni, Mirna Zordan.

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Above: Critical Diagrams

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Cross Sections showing the relationship between the canal, courtyard and buildings.

This project develops part of the Micro Citta master plan in a more detailed approach. Two micro-cities from the master plan have been developed as a bold mix of modernist forms and perimeter block housing. One precinct is based around a transport interchange incorporating light-rail, trains, water public transport and buses. The hub supports a vibrant and liveable commercial and residential neighbourhood with good access to the waterfront. The area provides new types of green spaces which are not common in Venice. The chosen site is located in a key position with potential for development and strong transport connections to Venice, direct access to the current light rail route, access to two residential areas (Marghera and Mestre), access to open space (San Giuliano Park) and a historic fort (Forte Marghera).

In this scheme old factories and other industrial facilities are transformed through adaptive reuse and incorporate vibrant activities.

The project integrates various means of transport, providing a wide range of mobility options such as vaporetto (water bus), light rail and buses. The design of the neighbourhood encourages sustainable mobility options such as walking and cycling, civilizing the new residential area with social, open spaces. The historic image of an industrial Marghera will be transformed into one promoting a modern Venetian urban form.

Recapturing Marghera International Urban Design Studio



Proposed residential unit with semi-public open space reinterpreting the

image of historic Venice.

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Motorway access

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PedestrianWaterways

View corridorsMaster Plan

The canal play a vital role in connecting the new urban precinct with the historic Forte Marghera in the north.

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Penang, an island located in the west of Malaysia, is place to celebrate a multiple Chinese, Indian and Malay culture together in a vibrant community. Its economy has enormous potential based on education, medicine tourism as well as proximity to fast growing Indonesia, Southern Asia as well as traditional links with India and China. Penang needs to plan a future based on access to trade centres, access to good housing and access to high quality public transport. The island has a potential to be a major trade centre in western Malaysia which will compete with Singapore, Jakarta or KL.

The studio’s objectives is to establish mix-used urban centres outside of George Town which cater for trade, commerce and retail, to form a backbone modern public transport system such as a high speed MTR to serve the new urban centres of Penang, to expense the tourism opportunity in Penang by providing other waterfront areas, quality hotels, food experiences, better shopping centres and finally, to provide more houses for dealing with housing crisis in Penang.

Those objectives would be achieved by dividing the large scale masterplan into three self-funded specific development projects: the heritage George Town, the Creek area and the Airport City Bayan Baru.

The plan was believed to, firstly, set up new independent urban development authorities or expensing the right of the Think City or Penang Development Corporation to response for a proposal of a masterplan and major infrastructure development of the new boulevard and new metro line funded by selling the land along the transport corridor and, secondly, to be a legal base to invite private sector to invest into potential projects based on the masterplan as it stated within the plan strategies.

Airport City Bayan BaruUrban Design Studio 2



Image Credit: Chen Yanxi, Chen Yuhao, Huynh Thi Mai Phuong, Rituka Kapur, Nguyen Khanh Tung, Park Eunju, Wang Chenyu, Yu Haiwen,

Shao Shuai, Mirna Zordan.

Penang urban structure plan.

Vision for Bayan Baru.

Area

1097 HaGross Floor Space

9.5 mil. sq.mPopulation

119,000Dwelling

39,000Car Parkiing

31,000Employment

80,000Hotels

3,000Estimated Total Invesment

8 bil. USDArea



119,000Dwelling

39,000Car Parkiing

31,000Employment

80,000Hotels


8 bil. USDArea



119,000Dwelling

39,000Car Parkiing

31,000Employment

80,000Hotels


8 bil. USD

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Phase 1 - 5 years• Starting detail plan 1 to 4.• Building the metro line.• Enhancing the streetscape of

the Tun Dr. Awang Highway.• Housing: 12,600 units.• Mix-used GFA: 1,000,000 sqm.

Phase 2 - 15 years• Starting the commercial centre

near the airport.• Starting the urban renewal for

the kampung site.• Developing mix-used buildings

along the highway.• Housing: 16,900 units.• Mix-used GFA: 5,000,000 sqm.

Final Phase - 25 years• Building residential areas.• Building the scientific -

technical museum.• Housing: 26,500 units.• Mix-used GFA: 4,000,000 sqm.

The main boulevard corridor enhances the first arriving impression of Penang along Jalan Tun Dr. Awang.

Urban Design Framework.

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I always introduce myself as an Architect, Kendoka and Iaidoka. Practising Kendo and Iaido (Japanese fencing) is not only improve my physical strength but mental determination. My life had been changed forever since I started to practise these two martial arts. They have become a way of life in which I found so many thing that could be applied into my daily life.

Image: Tung Nguyen, Osaka 2011 Copyright © 2015 Nguyen Khanh Tung

Copyright © 2015 Nguyen Khanh Tung

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