MA architects office

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Add To Collection

MA architects office

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Firm

MA architects

Type

Commercial › Office

STATUS

Built

YEAR

2022

SIZE

1000 sqft - 3000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

Photos

Paul Phan (34)

MA architects, 5-years experienced to work in rental offices, stable, narrow, inflexible spaces with difficulties of owner’s stories, air conditioner, surrounded environment that architectural offices in Ho Chi Minh city are mostly facing everyday…

MA architects has thought about an office space where to come, to share, to work, to dream in the slight wind, natural light, green trees, sand, rain and wood. MA considers these elements like a seed, in which everyone plays as embryo, nourishes in mental and body by the sun, wind, rain, air with plants, birds and covered by a layer of concrete walls, eco tin roofing sheets…

The plot with popular size in Ho Chi Minh city: 5x20m, planned to use available resources such as the bare ground, the yard which is self-absorbed and evaporate to reduce the heat in hot weather. Reusing old wood to make the carcass, beams, trusses, floor, columns with the natural structure. The outside covers as a testa with the brick walls, eco tin roofing sheets…

Starting with the bare ground, MA tackled the ground, floor, wall in order to make a stable base and cover. Then, MA is in the process of erecting the wooden beams, columns, structural framework, planting trees…Bringing the furnitures inside office at last. The organization of the constructing process is carefully calculated in reality, material features, space features, less constructing time.

With the limit in budget, so the materials used are their own colors and textures to complete the project. For wood, MA only used old woods, treated the surface and erected. The cover - the surrounding wall is rawly built and completed with a waterproof layer to create a good cover for the office, avoid the affects of rain and sun. About the floor, in addition to the cement concrete floor of working area, the remaining area is the bare ground, compacted tightly with a layer of small stones and finish with a compacted sand layer on the top. This created the natural color, self-absorbed whenever rain and decrease the hot tempererature by the way of watering the sand in rough weather. The roof used eco tin and light roofing sheets and on top is dried coconut leaves to both lighten and insulate, reduce noise. Trees are carefully chosen in term of size, type, etc. to bring inside the project.

Project name: MA architects office
Location: Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh city
Completed in: 2021

Total floor area: 100m2

Principal Architect: Anh Le
Design team: Duc Nguyen, Xuyen Nguyen, Phong Truong, Chau Nguyen, Triet Le, Nhi Duong, Ly Le

Photo: Paul Phan

Product Spec Sheet

Were your products used?

Join as a manufacturer to add your products.

Collaborating Firms

Was your firm involved? Add it now.

Team

Were you involved? Add yourself.

Keep Exploring Architizer by Creating a Free Account or Logging in.

MA architects office

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

MA architects office

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Product Spec Sheet

Collaborating Firms

Team