The building is located on a hillside overlooking the sandy beach in Mui Ne, Vietnam. Haus Space transformed a private house on a long piece of land into a tropical bungalow named Hill Lodge. Haus Space retained the original house structure including the exterior walls and roof, and then rearranged the interior spaces to provide a comfortable bungalow facing a large terrace with a pool and garden. Thus each space is interconnected intimately for luxurious use by the guests, but privacy is provided by a glass block wall and soft materials including curtains and plants.
When asked by a young couple with two small children to design a house for them in a highly dense neighborhood of Vietnam, we are faced with many challenges (a West-facing long and narrow building lot with three sides blocked by other houses) which simultaneously pose fascinating opportunities for economical and innovative design solutions. The attempt is to create refreshing and playful living spaces for the owners- a young couple and their two children as well as interesting photography opportunities for their business.
75% of Vietnam’s population now lives mainly on agricultural production in rural areas; however, rapid industrialization and urbanization in the past 20 years has resulted in a loss of millions of hectares of agricultural land, leaving nearly three million workers unemployed. In the meantime, the country’s population has increased by more than 15 million people, which results in a high housing demand. This has then entailed massive waves of construction and sprawl land encroachments in rural areas and from other vulnerable communities. As a result, the living environment and natural habitat in these areas have been seriously contaminated and impaired, thus gradually disrupting the relationship between Humans and Humans and between Humans and Nature in the context of increasingly severe climate change.
As such, the aim of the project is to build a house which helps promote Agriculture and at the same time create jobs for local residents.
The project is about a building 6 meters wide and 13 meters long located on the main street Ho Van Hue, which has a variety of choice in wedding service in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam. Although the street is approximately 500 meters long, both sides of it are full of shops specializing in wedding service. Most of them use aluminum panels to decorate the façade and to hang all kinds of advertising signs. Walking on this street, people would feel as if they were walking in a lane full of heavy shapes, high blocks which look like matched boxes standing next to each other.
10.8231°N, 106.6297°E. Ho Chi Minh City. Here, the tropical sunlight is so intense that we primarily recognize it as a physical hindrance, like the rain or the wind, before we consider it as an abstract existence in architecture. You can easily imagine its harshness when you see most of the people outside wearing, even in the hottest season, coats and multiple layers of clothes to protect themselves from the sun’s strong rays. If you look around the city’s streets, you can also note they are full of add-ons purposefully arranged to create shades: observe the outdoor parking areas, the street-cafes, the flower shops or the play-yards in schools… Indeed, under such a heavy sunlight, it is as natural to seek and generate shadows as to have umbrellas and raincoats under rainy conditions.
Cricket house project took place in suburb, Hanoi. With total area of 560m2, the construction area of 200m2, this is one of the projects designed and finished by 365 Design. After a lot of concept that stayed on paper, this is the concept we invested in a lot of time and thought to bring to reality. The main inspiration of this project is Nature. Cricket House is designed with open spaces to maximize the connection between people and nature. During construction process, we couldn’t optimize material used becaused of the location in suburb. In the end, we used the available material from local supplier and plants to create a morden architectural space that could get on well with the surrounded space.
Within the last few years, Hanoi has experienced rapid development, resulting in urban sprawl and many abandoned housing areas. This is not only the waste of environmental and financial resources, but also the causes of many social issues in term of neighborhood security and livability.
Mein Garten, a brand under OLAD Jsc – Outdoor & Landscape Development Joint stock Company and supply-firm, is a design and consulting firm focusing on landscape architecture and horticulture. It is important to them to have an office which is opened as much as possible to the nature, and which bring refreshment and creative thinking for their staff.
Hidden, located on the pine hill; the steel and glass house designed by Idee Architects has a wide vision, seeing over arround the under valley and still keeps its private and isolation. (escape place)
The architect and customer quickly understand eachother about living view, tend towards simple life style, open space and freedom, silence and near nature, with full of utilities. “Live in simplicity” is the main criteria during making the design.
High density of construction, lack of natural light, stuffy space, and lack of connection are typical features of housing construction in Vietnam. These features are the old forms of the house that its owners used to live in. Something needs to be changed, this is the first idea that the owners and the Architect share.
This renovation project includes a café on the last floor and the roof top of a 7th floor middle-rise concrete building located in the city center of Vinh city in the middle north of Vietnam.
From these levels one has a great view over the surrounding low-rise houses, towards the river, magnificent forest scape and various aged buildings.
The buildings in this area were damaged by the Vietnam War. Most of them were also renovated with colonial style façades inspired by European designs.
Nowadays, regardless of their height, some of the buildings still imitated this kind of the façade style.
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