HEROES or VILLAINS

Andrew Currie, Co-founder of OUT-2 Design Architects ~ Designers ~ Workplace Strategists

2008 RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE▫ FORUM

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“A person who is admired for having
done something very brave or having achieved
something great and is regarded as a model or
ideal”
Cambridge Dictionary

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LIVING THE HIGHLIFE

PROPOSITION No.

The success, or failure, of high rise living...

...will make, or break, Ho Chi Minh City

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 HCMC

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CHANGING TRENDS

OLD NEW
SIZE: 100 – 150sqm 60 – 100sqm

BEDROOMS 3–4 1–2

MIX 40% 3 – 4br 80% 1 – 2br

60% 1 – 2br 20% 3 – 4br

Who’s buying...

Newly weds
New families with 1 – 2 children
Owner occupiers.
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 Av. Apt @ 75sqm = 2,646,225sqm
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 COMMERCIAL OFFICE SPACE

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CONTEXT vs QUALITY

PROPOSITION No.

Context is no longer a legitimate excuse...

...for poor quality design or Construction

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LEAD OR BE LED

PROPOSITION No.

Is academia fit...

...to be your educator...?

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EDUCATION
Architecture is one of the key professions
involved in shaping the built environment
and urban space. Architectural education
that prepares architects for a professional
life should therefore, be seen, at least in the
following contexts and the specific objectives
pertaining to them:

• Social, cultural, political contexts

• Professional, technological, industrial
contexts
• The World: local, global, ecological
contexts
• Academic contexts including science and
knowledge in general.
• International contexts

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EDUCATION
Whatever the detailed dimensions of these
contexts, architectural education should
have two basic purposes:

1. to produce competent, creative ,

critically minded and ethical
professional designers/builders; and,

2. to produce good world citizens who

are :

• intellectually mature,
• ecologically sensitive; and,
• socially responsible.

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CHOOSE OR LOOSE

PROPOSITION No.

Architecture must be founded on

• Awareness
• Honesty
• Responsibility

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OUT-2 DESIGN
Playing our part...

1. Our values
2. Our Clients
3. Our Projects
4. Our People

• 5 years in Vietnam
• 23 staff
• First design firm in Asia to achieve WWF Green Office
Accreditation
• Pivotal role in 3 of Vietnam’s first Building to be designed and
constructed to Australia’s ‘Green Star’ Environmental Rating
System
• Responsible for Vietnam’s first Corporate HQ facility to be
designed and built to Green Star rating and the first to use LEED*
compliant non-toxic & sustainable materials throughout the
16,000sqm facility. *Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design
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 HERO or VILLAIN

THE CHOICE IS YOURS...

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