Located on the outskirts of Hanoi, Long’s House is conceived as a spatial threshold mediating between the dense urban fabric and the surrounding landscape.
The house is a reunion of memories scattered across time and space through the unfolding of family life. Its transparency makes the neighbors an essential part of the spatial sequence.
The openness of the house renders it infinite, always ready to attach or detach from the next space in the ongoing process of urban densification.
The altar, the boiling kettle, the jackfruit tree, the kitchen, the air, and the heat insulation form a sequence of rituals for moving into a new home, yet together they also constitute a cosmos and a microcosm within the house itself.
Designed with the ability to adapt to future functional changes, the house accommodates two clinics run by the owner-doctors and includes structural provisions for additional floors to be built in the future.
Project info:
Project title: Long’s House
Architecture: vn-a (visual network art architecture)
Program: Residential Architecture / Houses
Year: 2023
Location: Vinh Quynh, Thanh Tri, Ha Noi, Viet Nam
Lead Architect: Huong Vu
Collaborators: Hieu Nham, Vuong Dinh
Post-production: Duong Le, Hiep Nguyen
Photographer: Robert Herrmann