Tropical Space  Co., Ltd.

Cuckoo House

Cuckoo House
© Oki Hiroyuki

CUCKOO HOUSE

Tropical Space

ARCHITECTS
Tropical Space

PHOTOGRAPHS
Oki Hiroyuki

AREA
274 m²

LEAD ARCHITECTS
Nguyen Hai Long, Tran Thi Ngu Ngon, Nguyen Anh Duc, Teresa Tran

YEAR
2019

LOCATION
Hòa Xuân, Vietnam

CATEGORY
House

Text description provided by architect.

The Cuckoo House is a house for 4 people (parents and 2 kids) combining with a coffee shop located in Da Nang, Vietnam and designed by Tropical Space in 2018.

Cuckoo House
© Oki Hiroyuki
Cuckoo House
© Oki Hiroyuki

The project is built by the local clay brick which brings a familiar feeling to the user and has the architectural shape reminding about the Cuckoo Clock.

The Cuckoo house includes three blocks which is connected by the buffer layers. These blocks place on another rectangular block which is function as a base. This base block is the coffee shop with the garden as outdoor area and the indoor space.

Cuckoo House
© Oki Hiroyuki
Cuckoo House
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Three blocks above are separated functional spaces of the house and linked by the buffer layers which is un-fully covered.

Block A is the master bedroom including two floors. The upper floor is the bedroom and the other one is bathroom and walk-in closet.

Cuckoo House
© Oki Hiroyuki
Cuckoo House
© Oki Hiroyuki

Block B also has two floors. The upper floor is the kids’ bedroom and the bellow is the living room.  Block C accommodates the kitchen and dining table.

Like a habit, most of people’ daily activities usually take place in functional spaces, Tropical Space detaches walls which are used to defined the place and offer the buffer space to urge people leave their rooms and join together.

Cuckoo House
Cuckoo House

These buffer layers can be used flexibly, connecting the indoor and the outdoor of the house which could make the family activities could be both private and open, Meanwhile, it allows the breeze go through all corners of the house and make it chill in the tropical summer.


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Tropical Space  Co., Ltd.
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Tropical Space Co., Ltd.
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