In this page, I document the studies of spatial products either shaped by or emerged from the trading between individuals at the public markets in Vietnam. I am capturing, with my bare eyes, the facts presented themselves to me, documented through photographs and narrative. It is presented in two dimensions, space and time, under various forms of interpretation.

I employ a duo language between the urbanism and architecture, shaped by my engagement in between the urban and architectural practices in the Vietnamese context, to focus on the accumulative transition from the interaction between urban objects to the formation of an urban system.  

The focus on the market is deliberately selected, underpinned by the existing body of knowledge that recognising the marketplace as the concentration of urban interactions originally, activating the original urban agglomeration, therefore containing in its transformative spatial expression the knowledge about an according urban area. Furthermore, focusing on the trading between individuals, of which defining the notion of the market, I aimed to scrutiny the humanistic driven force activated by the market, that is shaping the according urban system in a particular humanistic trajectory. 

Ultimately, it is to rethink the act of designing and building a space to live, inclusively, in the contemporary world, yet a specific local context of Vietnam as a developing country, with its own existing socio-spatial problems. 

In essence, this documentation is, under no circumstances, to support any specific speculation in urban practices, hence, to maintain solely the description of facts about human-made spatial products. It aims to achieve an un-bias understanding of the humanistic spatial mechanism. 

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All of the images, photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams in this page, if not otherwise credited are the work of the author - Tu Truong.