Identifying the architectural heritage value of buildings in traditional craft villages in Hanoi

Abstract

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, has been a land of civilization for thousands of years, with a long-standing history and culture. Along with ethnicity's historical development, this land has formed many traditional handicraft villages over hundreds of years. These handicraft villages had and have been contributing essential parts to conventional culture and the development of the city of Hanoi. Not only are the traditional villages the production sites of unique and excellent handicrafts, but the villages are also places to preserve cultural and traditional values and the history of Hanoi in particular and of the Vietnamese people as a whole. However,
within the process of urbanization and industrialization, many traditional handicraft villages of Hanoi have to face diminishing cultural architectural values due to a lack of care and proper conservation. The development of tourism and services has been transforming the landscape and spatial structure as well as the cultural, architectural, social, and environmental values of traditional craft villages in Hanoi. This makes the preservation, maintenance, and promotion of cultural values and architectural heritage more difficult in the current period. Therefore, the goal of the research is to concentrate on recognizing the architectural heritage values of community building of Hanoi’s traditional handicraft villages, thereby setting the foundation to service the management operation of researching conserving, maintaining, and managing the building of architectural heritage at these traditional handicraft villages in Hanoi for the foreseeable future.

Keywords: Traditional handicraft villages; architectural heritage; Hanoi city