Border House

Vietnam

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Border House

Vietnam

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WORKLOUNGE 03- VIETNAM

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2023

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

Undisclosed

A renovation project for a house where an elderly couple live in a rural village in Hanoi. The existing building was built in the 2000s and is an L-shaped two-story building surrounding a courtyard. The request of the client, the son of the elderly couple, was to decorate the interior. However, as I looked at the site and listened to what the elderly couple had to say, I realized that the key to this renovation was to refine the edge of the existing house in order to create a better connection between the interior and exterior, the elderly couple and their son's family, and this building and the community.

　In the hot and humid regions of Asia, it is not the interior space of the building that guarantees the comfort of life, but rather the exterior space or the semi-outdoor space in between. The same is true in Hanoi, Vietnam, where old rural houses have eaves, in order to avoid the sun and receive the wind. Even now, when air conditioners are installed inside, people still prefer semi-outdoor spaces in cafes and teahouses, where they enjoy chatting with friends. The existing building this time does not have a semi-outdoor space where people can spend time, and the relationship between the inside and outside, which was originally connected by this space, was cut off, and the residents seemed to feel uncomfortable. Therefore, a boarded porch “Engawa(Japanese)” was installed between the building and the garden. The layout of the courtyard facing the porch has also been changed from tiled floors to a layout where gardening can be enjoyed. Through the semi-external porch where an elderly couple can relax, a good relationship between the inside and the outside is recovered.

This porch is connected to the newly installed external staircase and serves as an independent way to the second floor that the son's family uses during their stay. In Vietnam, the number of nuclear families has rapidly increased over the past few years, but there is still a custom of returning to the parents' home in the countryside on holidays, staying several nights, and then returning to the city center. However, the truth is that both the elderly couple and the son's family want to maintain a certain degree of independence. Therefore, we set up a circulation path on the edge of the building that allows the son's family to directly approach the second floor, which is the living area, without going through the living area of the parents, and set up a semi-outdoor family living room in front of the entrance on the second floor. On the west side of the family living room, on the boundary line with the neighboring land, a brise soleil is used to place a planter to ensure privacy and protect against the western sun while also functioning as a green wall interior for the living room. A star fruit was planted in the center as a symbol tree.
In the center of a rural village in northern Vietnam, there is a village gathering place called a Dinh. Characterized by a wooden roof with curved ends, villagers gather to discuss the rules of the village, and rituals are held in the open space in front of the Dinh. A Dinh is rebuilt every few years. decided to use The roof that extends from the family living room to the existing building is made entirely of materials from the renovation of the local Dinh. I was reminded once again of the power of materials. The ties between people in the farming village are gradually weakening, but I hope that this building will play a role in supporting these ties for villagers in the near future.

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Border House

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