Tropical Flow

English description provided by the architects.

The house is located in Vinh Ngoc commune (Dong Anh), which has a close connection with the water surface of Phuong Trach lake, Hai Boi lake, and the Red River.

This location generates the idea of ​​creating a House from the Flow – an expression of commonly found residential agglomerations along rivers (horizontally) or along waterfalls (vertically).

The flow serves as a connection between spaces for use and interspersed vegetation to create the entire house with a diagonal view of an "air and light waterfall" from the core inside to the corrugated "tile waterfall and brick waterfall" outside.

Although bricks and tiles are two traditional materials widely used by the Vietnamese people, they are, in this case, exposed to the direct vision and contact of the users, giving the architecture a sense of emotion and meaning, new but still familiar.

The space used on each floor is arranged to change continuously and flexibly to create attractive views and vivid experiences. On the roof is a garden for growing vegetables and fruit trees.

Traditional brick walls and tiled roofs are disappearing and being replaced by concrete boxes, glass walls, and corrugated iron roofs.

Tropical Flow is the realization of a close relationship between humans and the natural environment through a nature-based architectural perspective: Architecture is the "second nature" created by humans!