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Stacking green

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YEAR

2011

- Project Name: Stacking Green
Location: Ho Chi Minh city,
Vietnam
Competion: 2011

- Architect’s Name: Vo Trong Nghia + Daisuke Sanuki + Shunri Nishizawa
- Contractor:
Thuan Viet Company + Wind and water House JSC.
- Floor area: 250m2 (4 floors)
- Photographer Name: Hiroyuki Oki
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use the photo for the publication, please send email to contact below to inform
to photographer that his photos will be published on your magazine)
Ms. Le An (a manager of Mr. Oki’s Photo studio)
E-mail: anle@deconphoto.com
Mobile: (+84) (0)903-028-001

Whoever wanders aroundSaigon, a chaotic city with the highest density of population in the world, can easily find flower-pots crampped and displayed here and there all
around the streets. This interesting custom has formed the amused character of Saigon over a long period of time and Saigonese love their
life with a large variety of tropical plants and flowers in their balconies,
courtyards and streets.

The house, designed for a
thirty-years-old couple and their mother, is a typical tube house constructed on the plot 4m
wide and 20m deep. The front and back
façades are entirely
composed of layers of concrete planters cantilevered from two side walls.
The
distance between the planters and the height of the planters are adjusted
according to the height of the plants, which varies from 25 cm to 40 cm. To
water plants and for easy maintenance,we use the automatic irrigation pipes inside the
planters. We
named this tropical, unique and green house “Stacking Green” because its façades
filled with vigorous and vital greenery.

The
house structure is a RC frame structure widely
used in Vietnam.
The partition walls are very few in order to keep interior
fluency and view
of green façades from every point of the house. During
the day we get the varying light with the time of day trimmed by the top-light in
the center. In the morning and the afternoon,
the sunlight enters through the amount of leafs on both façades, creating beautiful shadow effects on the
granite walls, which are composed of strictly stacked 2cm stones.

The
green façade and roof top garden protect its inhabitants from the direct
sunlight, street noise and pollution. Furthermore, natural ventilation through the façades and 2 top-lights allow this house
to save a big energy in a harsh climate in Saigon.
Concerning these ecological approaches, we referred a lot to the bioclimatic
principles of traditional Vietnamese courtyard house.

In
this chaotic city, we defined the full variety of surrounding greenery as a
context of Saigon and applied to the main
concept of this house. Although the Saigon
townscape is getting uniformed and boring under the influence of the furious
urban sprawl of recent years, we intended this house to inspire people to
re-define and re-increase the greenery as the character of this city. “Stacking
Green” is just one small house, but it is generated from the context of Saigon. We hope that “Stacking Green” makes Saigon become more distinguished and fascinating with
much more tropical greenery in the future.

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