Publication:
Community-based behaviour towards Affordances in Conservation of Hanoi Old Quarter in the Vietnam context
Community-based behaviour towards Affordances in Conservation of Hanoi Old Quarter in the Vietnam context
No Thumbnail Available
Files
Date
2020
Authors
Ngo Minh Hung
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Abstract
The 36 Old Street Quarter is a downtown area of Hanoi City, which has over 1000
years old and contains such traces of history and architecture. The grid structure gives it a
significant character that is a part of the local heritage facing phenomenon of replacing settings
of ancient spaces, stoning the streets and concretizing old buildings due to anti-conservative
interplay from its users. Therefore, this paper examines the user’s behaviour in optimizing
different settings of Hanoi Old Quarter (HOQ) towards conservation efforts. Theoretically, the
research was conducted by making use of ‘affordances’ terminology of Gibson (1986/1979) to
understand interactions between the spatial settings and its user. Methodologically, the
purposeful method of local people and layout-based sketch of the blocks, and analysed images
of outdoor and shared places have been employed for three survey sites respectively. The results
of community-based behaviours, its patterns and ‘verb-ability’ are fundamental factor to develop
ground-up programs on urban and architectural conservation in the Vietnam’s contextualisation
Description
Keywords
affordances,
community-based behaviour,
behaviour pattern,
old quarter