Khuôn Studio

Kontum House

Kontum House

Kontum House

Khuôn Studio

FIRM
Khuôn Studio

STATUS
Built

YEAR
2016

LOCATION
Kon Tum Province, Vietnam

TYPE
Residential › Private House

The house is located in a Vietnamese Central Highland district, well known for its tropical climate with a dry and wet season.

Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House

Client needs an accommodation for a comfortable life of a young spousal relationship and assure the domestic microclimate, although the budget is tight.

A one-storey house stretches along 5-meter width and 23-meter depth boundary, in which scattered light wells and plants.

These natural figures are distributed to every function area, such as planting bed under light apertures for living room, bedroom with window opens to small courtyard also with plant beds, therefore is the restroom located.

Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House

From almost every interior view, natural light and green lush are to be seen.

The front elevation suffers from harsh sunlight as it faces the west, so the façade is composed of a rigid veil of patterned concrete blocks in front and glass curtain wall behind.

Double skin façade reduces the heat of western sunlight, also decorates the interior with lighting dots as it passes through the patterned concrete blocks.

Kontum House
Kontum House

The glass curtain wall behind can be easily opened or closed to adjust the amount of inhale wind.

White is the main ambient color of the house, mean to distinguish other natural colors of local materials, such as grey of concrete floor, handicrafted moulded patterned blocks , naturel wood colors of furniture , lush green of plamts under light well.

Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House

All these simple chracters mingle together for a content living space of a young family.


Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House
Kontum House

Khuôn Studio
T +84 90 6443389
Khuôn Studio
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam