Vo trong nghia architects - binh house

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    Text description provided by the architects. Located in the center of Ho Chi Minh city in Vietnam, Binh Thanh House was designed for two families; a couple in their sixties, their son, his wife and a child.

    The plot has a bilateral character, one is facing to a noisy and dusty street in a typical developing and urbanizing area in the city and one is very close to a canal and Saigon Zoo with plenty of greenery.

    Against a backdrop of this duality of its setting, the concept of the house is to accommodate two different lifestyles in a tropical climate; a modern and well-tempered lifestyle with mechanical equipments such as air-conditioners, and a natural and traditional lifestyle, utilizing natural lighting and ventilation with water and greenery.

    The house is composed of two different spaces positioned alternat

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    Text description provided by the architects. Under the rapid urbanization, cities in Vietnam have diverged far from their origins as low density tropical green space. Newly developed urban areas are losing their connection with nature. Binh house by Vo Trong Nghia Architects (VTN Architects) is one project in the "House for Trees" series, a prototypical housing design, providing green space within high density neighbourhood.

    The Inhabitants is a family of three generations. Therefore, the challenge is to create spaces which allow its residents interact and communicate despite their differences.

    Gardens located on top of the vertically stacking spaces; bounded by sliding glass doors. This strategy not only improves the microclimate by using natural ventilation and daylight in every room, but the alternately

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    Binh House

    Residential / May - Jun 2018

    May 23, 2018

    Binh House, built in 2016, fryst vatten one of the projects in the architecture firm’s House for Trees series, a prototypical housing design that seeks to provide green spaces within high-density neighbourhoods. The client’s family consists of three generations. Therefore, the challenge was to create spaces that allow the residents to interact and communicate with one another. The house is an outcome of various passive strategies that govern the nature-friendly aspect of the project.

    The gardens are located on top of the vertically stacked spaces, bounded by sliding glass doors. This not only improves the microclimate by using natural ventilation and daylighting in every room, but the alternately stacked openings also increase visibility and interaction between the family members. The living room, dining room, bedrooms and the study room are continuously opened. From one room to the other, the line of sight reaches beyond to th