VTN Architects

Gia Lai House

Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki

GIA LAI HOUSE

Vo Trong Nghia Architects - Vo Trong Nghia, Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hiroyuki Oki

AREA
510.0 m²

YEAR
2011

LOCATION
Gia lai

CATEGORY
House

Text description provided by architect.

This is an individual residence located in Gia Lai city, Middle Vietnam.

The site is 7 m wide and 40 m deep, which is the typical conditions for ”Tube House” in Vietnam.

Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki

As is often the case with “Tube House”, Housing Planning is strongly influenced only by the layout of “Rooms” and “Corridor” since too many bedrooms are required in a narrow site.

In this case, we designed the corridor not as a simple and boring path but as a continuous and sequential space which becomes Living space,

Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki

Dining space and also outside Living space, changing its width and height as people step into the house.

For the wall of this corridor, we stacked 4m-length granite stones made in Gia Lai city as a reflector of the various top-light.

Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki

The louvers on the top light are simulated carefully to cut the direct sunlight.

This top light and louver also save energy by keeping the natural ventilation for this house.

Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki


Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki
Gia Lai House
© Hiroyuki Oki


Gia Lai House
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