vietnamese-based architecture firm kientruc o were commissioned to remodel a traditional vietnamese house into a contemporary structure using spatial voids. the main challenge that arose throughout the renovation process, according to head architect đàm vũ, was deciding which pre-existing elements would remain as part of the newly remodeled house. the residence is a seventy years old colonial villa that sits on one of the busiest road in the heart of the city.
the original house is a brick building that later expanded with an additional separate steel structure at the rear-end of the house twenty years ago. confronted with the constant chaos of the city, the kientruc o-designed house juxtaposes against its urban context by introverting itself through spatial subtraction, creating a void that denotes its noisy context. elliptical in geometry, the void carves along the horizontal side of the house toward the steel structure to the back, continuing upward to the roof forming the receding pattern of the floors above and the spatial abstraction of the void’s geometry is materialized.
一层花园/first floor garden
退台楼层 /receding floor plates
独立住宅入口/separate residential entrance
内部和外部之间的灰空间/soft boundary between the interior and exterior of the house
钢格板地面/steel grated floor plate
池塘中央空洞/the pond in the central void
作为声学缓冲元件的堆叠墙壁/Wall of stacking tiles as an acoustical buffer element
轴测图/axonometric sketch
初始房屋模型/initial house model
透视/perspective
场地规划/site plan
项目信息：
建筑设计：Kientruc O
主创建筑师：đàm vũ
设计团队：an-ni lê, dan hồ, tài nguyễn, duy tăng, nhung hồ
项目时间：2017年
占地面积：775平方米
摄影：Hiroyuki Oki
