A brand new house in Ho Chi Minh City won the highest housing award on the World Architecture Festival within the Philippines.
Binh House, ul Vo Trong Nghia Architectswas voted one of the best house on this planet in 2017.
But while the Jenga-like stacked type of this recent Ho Chi Minh City home gives it a powerful sense of solidity and permanence, the house can also be about maximizing natural light and creating close connections to nature which can be often missing in modern cities.
“As a result of rapid urbanization, cities in Vietnam have diverged significantly from their roots of tropical green areas with low population density,” the corporate says. “Newly developed urban areas are losing their connection to nature.”
The Binh House is certainly one of the corporate’s “House for Trees” projects, geared toward providing green space in a densely populated neighborhood.
Here, garden terraces are placed on top of vertically arranged spaces. This strategy improves the microclimate by providing natural ventilation and daylight in each room. But it has one other advantage, and all of it has to do with family connections.
The company claims that the family consists of three generations, and the second big challenge was to create an area that may enable interaction and communication despite the age difference.
Rooftop gardens have large trees that provide shade, which helps lower the room temperature. You may also plant vegetables.
Vo Trong Nghia Architects says residents were still not using air con on the time of the awards ceremony.
“Architecture is intended not only to meet functional and aesthetic requirements, but also to provide a means to connect people with people and people with nature.”
Source : Stuff from New Zealand
