Architects:H&P Architects

Area:1150m²

Year:2023

Photographs:Le Minh Hoang

Category:Houses

Designer:Doan Thanh Ha, Nguyen Hai Hue, Trinh Thi Thanh Huyen, Tran Van Duong, Luong Thi Ngoc Lan, Nguyen Van Thanh, Nguyen Van Thinh

City:Hanoi

Country:Vietnam

Text 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).

Named as Tropical Flow, this house is multifunctional (housing, office) for many generations to live together. 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.

Dong Anh is a suburban district of Hanoi that has seen rapid urbanization. The vegetable gardens in villages and the orchards in town are turning into terraced houses. Traditional brick walls and tiled roofs are disappearing and being replaced by concrete boxes, glass walls, and corrugated iron roofs. In that context, Tropical Flow is a solution that contributes to raising social awareness about the need to preserve "uninterrupted, smooth flows" which are large enough with green surfaces to "compensate" for Mother Nature through the invaluable spaces that the Architecture "borrows" to exist.

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!

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