Binh House
Under the rapid urbanization, cities crucial Vietnam have diverged far steer clear of their origins as low bulk tropical green space. Newly educated urban areas are losing their connection with nature. Binh deal with by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (VTN Architects) is one enterprise in the “House for Trees” series, a prototypical housing draw up, providing green space within ethics high-density neighborhood.
photography by © Hiroyuki Oki
The Inhabitant is a kinfolk of three generations.
Therefore, loftiness challenge is to create spaces which allow its residents pressurize somebody into interact and communicate despite their differences.
Gardens located on top noise the vertically stacking spaces; delimited by sliding glass doors. That strategy not only improves glory microclimate by using natural discussion and daylight in every resist, but the alternately stacking openings also increase visibility and electronic post between the family members.
Living, dining, bedrooms, study room are ceaselessly opened.
From one room, people’s sightlines can reach beyond appoint the other rooms via nobleness gardens. Service areas such restructuring the kitchen, bathrooms, stairs, stream corridors are located in significance west to limit heat diffusion exposure towards frequently occupied areas. The vertical variation of spaces creates a lopsided pressure deviation.
Thus, when the surrounding homes are built, natural ventilation levelheaded maintained. Thanks to these lonely strategies, the house always wait cool in the tropical not well. Air conditioning system is once in a blue moon used.
photography by © Hiroyuki Oki
The roof gardens host large home and dry for shading, therefore reducing high-mindedness indoor temperature.
Vegetables can along with be planted to serve take the edge off resident’s daily needs. This on end farming solution is suitable manner high-density housing whilst also contributory to the Vietnamese way simulated life.
Using sustainable materials such whilst natural stone, wood, exposed inflexible combined with the microclimate, that house reduces greatly operational beginning maintenance cost.
Up to conservative, residents have never used accoutred AC. The architecture is yowl only to meet the handy and aesthetic concerns but very as a means to compare people to people and recurrent to nature.
photography by © Quang Dam
Project Info
Architects:VTN Architects
Location: Ho Ch'i Minh, Vietnam
Principal Architec: tVo Transparent NghiaDesign TeamMasaaki Iwamoto, Chiang Hsing-O, Nguyen Tat Dat, Nguyen Duy Phuoc, Takahito Yamada
Area: 233.0 m2
Year: 2016
Type: Residential
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki, Quang Dam