This mobile structure in Hanoi, Vietnam, by Swiss architects Bureau A has a bicycle fitted underneath so it can be cycled from place to place. Geneva studio Bureau A designed the project as a multipurpose structure, to be used for anything from a vertical street food restaurant to an exhibition space. The mobile structure can cycled anywhere is it needed, similar to this mobile town square that features a miniature clock tower on the back of a bicycle. The structure belongs to Tadioto, a local bar and cultural centre who use it for art and other social events. The bicycle was originally owned by the steel worker who built the structure, who adapted to fit in the bottom section it can be moved around easily.
«Everything
is dense in Hanoi, including the milk in your coffee. Everything is
used. In unexpected ways “things” live different lives, they
reincarnate continuously into new functions, passing from one life to
another without a moment of respite. In Hanoi, this magic of
creativity ends up in everyday life as opposed to art museums. The
blue, a vertical Bia Hoi for Tadioto accompanies this creative
movement. Conceived as a support for small pieces of lives, as an
ephemeral house or as a vertical street food restaurant, it might
deviate from its original yet wide function and become something
else, an unexpected urban animal. A mini-concert hall? A poetry
podium ? It probably just needs to circulate, to stroll around the
busy streets of Hanoi and then it’ll decide by itself which
disguise to adopt...» Bureau A
Picture by Boris Zuliani