Lantern Shop in Hoi An

Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

28 Apr 2015

The windows of a lantern shop in Hoi An. The wooden, louvered double casement windows are fitted not with glass, but with built-in folding countertops. Shop goods are crammed onto the counter and around the windows.

Lantern Shop in Hoi An
Shop / Hoi An, Vietnam / Cwa

This article is an excerpt from “Window Behaviorology,” a joint research project concerning windows and the behaviors around them done in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Laboratory.