Tag Hiroyuki Oki

03-12-2014

a21studĩo designs The Nest, a reporter’s home in Ho Chi Minh City

The young Vietnamese architects of a21studio designed The Nest, a reporter’s home in the Bình Thạnh district of Ho Chi Minh City. Made entirely of metal, The Nest was designed with a lightweight beam and pillar structure covered with a grid that becomes both a fence and a support for luxuriant vegetation.

01-10-2014

House for trees by Vo Trong Nghia Architects in Ho Chi Minh City

The innovative young studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a House for trees on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Particularly aware of the importance of building sustainable constructions, Vo Trong Nghia attempts to enrich an area where intense urbanisation has left no room for greenery with his House for Trees.

16-07-2014

Vo Trong Nghia Architects: concrete home in Binh Thanh (Ho Chi Minh)

The Binh Thanh house is a good introduction to the contemporary architecture of Ho Chi Minh, as seen from the point of view of Vo Trong Nghia Architects, a young but well-established Vietnamese studio. Its characteristic bare concrete façade serves as a sunshade. The work makes use of traditional local forms, interpreted with a view to achieving sustainability.

19-03-2012

“i resort” - in contact with nature and its methods

The “i resort” project by Vietnamese architectural practice a21 studio is characterised by close contact with the natural world that provides the mud used for treatments in this resort in Nha Trang City.