A speculative design project imagining the future of community life in a heavily flooded Ho Chi Minh City. It explores how cultural values can shape sustainable, collective living spaces amid climate crisis.
This project proposes a future community hub called the “Cultural House,” designed to maintain social connection and emotional well-being in a climate-ravaged urban landscape. The design focuses on resilience, resource-sharing, and reinforcing Vietnamese values like solidarity through shared spaces and rituals.
Set in a dystopian 2049, the neighborhood faces severe flooding, building collapse, poor air quality, and emotional isolation. The once vibrant environment is now overtaken by moss, debris, and scarcity, drastically lowering quality of life.
The design envisions a self-sustaining community space that runs on natural energy and active involvement from its residents. It serves as both a cultural hub and a survival shelter, supporting activities such as dining, singing, generating energy, and filtering water, while reimagining how people can live together in extreme conditions.
Illustrated through a transformation timeline from 2024 to 2049, the speculative world visualizes how the neighborhood evolves in response to rising water levels and environmental decay. Buildings adapt vertically, social spaces shift, and survival depends on collective resilience shaped by cultural roots.
