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AHO WORKS STUDIES 2012-2013
Landscape Architecture Studies
Student Projects
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HYPER (LANDSCAPE) URBANISM: CA MAU, VIETNAM
Sajedeh Ahi, Isaak Elias Skjeseth Bashevkin, Per Fredrik Blom,
Maxwell Gitenstein, Xin Guo, Ólafur Gylfi Gylfason, Christine
Joh, Gyu Jung Kim, Mette Kleppei, Martin Laino, Jia Liu, Erlend
Åsgard Marhinsen, Ai Narita, Nhuon Duy Even Nguyen, Annika
Pousi, Francisco Rodriguez Saa, Helle Lind Storvik and Yao Zuo
Master studio
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One semester
Ca Mau (pop. 215,000), Vietnam’s southern most city, is expect-
ed to double its population by 2030. It is one of the lowest ‘low-
lands’ in the world (0.5-1.3 meters) and is extremely vulnerable
to climate change. The studio worked as two ‘offices’ and de-
veloped design research. ‘Roots of Ca Mau’ developed affores-
tation as the region’s natural defence system against flooding
and erosion. The new planting regime would be developed
hand-in-hand with developing Ca Mau more as a water city, in
terms of a cleansing system for the storm water, enlarging the
public realm and for transportation. ‘Earth and Water’ choreo-
graphs new floodways to respond to the estimated sea level rise
while simultaneously benefit the city ecologically, socially and
economically. In both visions, projects articulated micro-to-
pographies to make a difference in function and aesthetics and
new stakeholder coalitions were developed to create synergies
between landscape, infrastructure and building.
