Home in Vietnam is surrounded by a beautiful koi pond

A advertising and marketing director in Vietnam needed a peaceable retreat from the stress of labor and Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. The shopper reached out to 3 architects who now work with three completely different studios — Nguyen Huu Duy of AmDesign Architects, Bui The Lengthy of CTA|Inventive Architects and Nguyen Duy of Time Architects — to collaborate on methods to create the proper retreat. Am Home is a contemporary twist on conventional Vietnamese architectural kinds and constructing strategies. It’s all set in the course of a koi pond on an acre of peaceable property surrounded by bushes.

The Am Home mission was inbuilt Can Giuoc, Lengthy An province, Vietnam, a couple of 45-minute drive from Ho Chi Minh Metropolis. The architects used quite a lot of strategies to create a peaceable setting, whereas additionally making the house trendy and sustainable. Am Home combines a number of options for air flow to maintain the humidity down. There’s a peaceable grey shade palette and pure gentle in each room. Moreover, there’s broad accordion doorways that open immediately onto the pond. The breezes from the pond all mix to create an ethereal, however stable dwelling for reflection and rest.

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Moreover, the roof is thatched, sitting on high of a wood roof construction coated in steel sheeting. This can be a nod to conventional Vietnamese roofing kinds, nevertheless it additionally serves as further insulation towards the warmth from the solar. The center of the home additionally has further air flow through gaps round a big pane window. It creates a novel model to the house on the subject of how the partitions and home windows work together. Additionally, how gentle performs into the inside whereas additionally serving an essential perform for pure cooling.

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The pond sits proper up towards the partitions of the home, with paver stepping stones resulting in and out of doors deck suspended among the many koi fish. As a result of the pond is so near the house, it creates an eco-friendly passive cooling system for the house to cut back the necessity for air-con.

Inside, the wood-paneled ceiling is painted the identical shade because the concrete partitions and flooring. Concrete with out tiles hold prices and supplies use down, whereas additionally making a cool floor for inhabitants to stroll throughout.

The Am Home dwelling consists of 5 separate block shapes organized randomly below the thatched roof. This splitting of the inside area creates new viewpoints from inside and outdoors the house of the attractive property.

The general impact is certainly one of a peaceable retreat middle, a hushed and relaxed area to spend the night or weekend. We love the passive components that surrounds the house with its pure environment and local weather. And picture, the Am Home is nothing in need of a sigh of aid on the finish of a busy week within the metropolis.

+ Time Architects, CTA|Inventive Architects and AmDesign Architects

Images by Hiroyuki Oki