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IN-BETWEEN GROUND

Project locationDong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square, Hanoi, Vietnam
CompanyNguyen Tran Quang Minh
University/SchoolUniversity of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City
Lead ArchitectNguyen Tran Quang Minh
Design TeamMinh Nguyen, Chau Pham and Associate
ClientHoan Kiem Ward People’s Comittee

IN-BETWEEN GROUND reconsiders Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square, Hanoi not as a finished civic object, but as an evolving urban ground where historical memory and contemporary life continuously negotiate. Positioned between the dense fabric of Hanoi's Old Quarter and the openness of Hoan Kiem Lake, the project deploys a pavilion and landscape system as spatial mediators. Through calibrated ground articulation and chromatic zoning, everyday activities - movement, pause, informal gathering - are framed as active agents of urban form. An embedded pavilion enables collective use without fixing outcomes.