Very narrow houses being built in increasing numbers in HCM City , especially along new highways and roads, will spoil the city’s appearance, experts say.
The very narrow houses, some barely a metre wide, are being built on the side of the East-West Highway and the roads that runs from the Tan Son Nhat Airport through Binh Loi area to the outer ring road.
The Tan Son Nhat- Binh Loi-Outer Ring Road was expected to be a model road in the city, but the odd houses have been built even as authorities are coming up with architectural designs for houses to be built on either side of the road.
One three-storey house that is being built on the side of this road has a width of about one metre and the owner has built balconies stretching out a metre or so, giving it an ungainly appearance. Near this house, three other super-narrow houses with out-stretched balconies are taking shape.
Nguyen Xuan Quang, the owner of one of the houses, said that his three-storey house had an area of 90sq.m before. Now it is just 15sq.m because the city took his land for the project.
A similar situation exists along the East-West Highway .
An official of Go Vap District’s Ward 1 said that they could not prevent residents building such odd houses.
An architect said that many other roads in the city like Nam Ky Khoi Nghia and Pasteur are also hosting badly designed houses.
Nguyen Dang Son, deputy director of HCM City Institute for Urban Research and Infrastructure Development, said that the city has not had a proper urban development plan, so the construction has been spontaneous and badly designed.
Urban design is the bridge between architecture and urban planning. Thus, making plans for new roads is very important in construction management, in order to giving the city a beautiful appearance, Son said.
Tran Chi Dung, director of the city’s Department of Planning and Architecture, said that they have been researching and making designs for the East-West highways, Hanoi highway and Tan Son Nhat-Binh Loi-Outer Belt road.
These will be completed in the near future, he said./.
The very narrow houses, some barely a metre wide, are being built on the side of the East-West Highway and the roads that runs from the Tan Son Nhat Airport through Binh Loi area to the outer ring road.
The Tan Son Nhat- Binh Loi-Outer Ring Road was expected to be a model road in the city, but the odd houses have been built even as authorities are coming up with architectural designs for houses to be built on either side of the road.
One three-storey house that is being built on the side of this road has a width of about one metre and the owner has built balconies stretching out a metre or so, giving it an ungainly appearance. Near this house, three other super-narrow houses with out-stretched balconies are taking shape.
Nguyen Xuan Quang, the owner of one of the houses, said that his three-storey house had an area of 90sq.m before. Now it is just 15sq.m because the city took his land for the project.
A similar situation exists along the East-West Highway .
An official of Go Vap District’s Ward 1 said that they could not prevent residents building such odd houses.
An architect said that many other roads in the city like Nam Ky Khoi Nghia and Pasteur are also hosting badly designed houses.
Nguyen Dang Son, deputy director of HCM City Institute for Urban Research and Infrastructure Development, said that the city has not had a proper urban development plan, so the construction has been spontaneous and badly designed.
Urban design is the bridge between architecture and urban planning. Thus, making plans for new roads is very important in construction management, in order to giving the city a beautiful appearance, Son said.
Tran Chi Dung, director of the city’s Department of Planning and Architecture, said that they have been researching and making designs for the East-West highways, Hanoi highway and Tan Son Nhat-Binh Loi-Outer Belt road.
These will be completed in the near future, he said./.
