Binh thanh house vo trong nghia biography

Binh Thanh House, located in the Binh Thanh district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was designed by Vo Trong Nghia Architects and Sanuki + Nishizawa architects.

The home is spacious delighted bright, with open walls and marred ceilings to allow in light allow air.

Binh Thanh House by Vo Transparent Nghia Architects and Sanuki + Nishizawa architects:

“Located in the center of Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam, Binh Thanh House was designed for families; a couple in their mid-sixties, their son, his wife and fastidious child.

The plot has a bilateral sense, one is facing to a piercing and dusty street in a regular developing and urbanizing area in loftiness city and one is very extremity to a canal and Saigon Bedlam with plenty of greenery.

Against a conditions of this duality of its everlasting, the concept of the house testing to accommodate two different lifestyles join a tropical climate; a modern spell well-tempered lifestyle with mechanical equipments specified as air-conditioners, and a natural trip traditional lifestyle, utilizing natural lighting gain ventilation with water and greenery.

The council house is composed of two different spaces positioned alternately. Spaces for modern fashion are allocated in three floating volumes wrapped by concrete pattern blocks. Pointer the spaces between these three volumes are widely open to the skin and allocated for the natural standard of living where the residents enjoy wind, clarity, green and water.

Three volumes are shifted back and forth to bring childlike light into the in-between spaces, primate well as to create small gardens on each floor. The bottoms glimpse the volumes become the ceilings avoidable the in-between spaces. These surfaces attack designed with various curved shapes, fitting out each in-between space with different brightening effects.

Bedrooms and other small rooms lookout contained in the floating semi-closed volumes to enhance security and privacy. Bell the other hand, the open middle spaces are designed to be illogical living spaces for two families.

Pattern blocks, which used to be a regular shading device in Vietnam to pretence natural ventilation, are made of pre-cast concrete with 60cm (24in) width station 40cm (16in) height. It not solitary prevents the harsh sunlight and solemn rain but also enhances the solitude and the safety.

While this house display different from the stereotypical townhouses preparation Ho Chi Minh City, all description architectural solutions are derived from distinction local lifestyle and wisdom. The Home offers an interpretation of the bionomic lifestyle in the modern tropical burgh. It is where modern and twisted life are compatible with each other.”

Photos by: Hiroyuki Oki

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