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A living library of research, walks and experimentation — shared knowledge and tools, meant to be used.
One blade for each resource in the register. Set a theme or a type on the cover, scroll to leaf through the pack, and click a blade to pull it out.
Donna Haraway has a great influence on contemporary architecture, that values the existing and rejects the tabular rasa format
A curated pointer to the cultural events the studio followed this season. Kept because the walks and projects often start from these encounters.
Walking the collective housing blocks of Kim Liên shows how shared thresholds actually work. The B6 renovation grew directly out of these observations.
First-idea drawings for the floating pavilion, kept as a record of how the form settled. Useful to compare with what was actually built.
The references the studio keeps returning to when a project asks how to stay cool without machines. Shared so collaborators start from the same shelf.
A series of joint prototypes testing how far untreated bamboo can span. The pavilion structures reuse these assemblies at full scale.
A short written piece on what the khu tập thể can still teach new housing. It frames the questions the housing projects try to answer.
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