Mẹ Mươi Home is a compact single-storey house in Kon Tum, designed as a place for everyday living and a point of return for a family whose members live apart. Rather than treating the house as a collection of separate rooms, the project is organized around a continuous spatial structure that connects domestic activities, landscape, and climate.
The house comprises one bedroom, a combined living and kitchen area, and a flexible multi-purpose room. Internal circulation is reduced to the essential, allowing the main spaces to remain visually and spatially connected. A continuous linear band of activity runs through the plan and becomes the primary organizational element of the house.
This arrangement allows different domestic activities to overlap rather than being strictly separated. Living, cooking, working, resting, and gathering are connected through a sequence of shared spaces, creating a compact plan with a relatively open spatial experience.
The second defining element is the large tiled roof. Extending beyond the enclosed rooms, it forms deep verandas along the front and rear of the house. These spaces act as thresholds between the interior and the garden, providing shade and creating intermediate areas for everyday activities.
The relationship between roof, veranda, vegetation, and openings also forms the project's primary climatic strategy. The extended roof reduces direct solar exposure, while the shaded verandas and surrounding greenery moderate the transition between inside and outside. Openings are positioned to support natural ventilation and air movement through the house.
Climate is therefore integrated into the spatial organization rather than treated as a separate technical layer.
The project follows a restrained architectural language, using a limited number of elements and materials to establish a coherent whole. The reduction of circulation, formal gestures, and material variation allows the house to focus on the qualities of space, light, air, and everyday use.
Through these relationships, the project seeks to make a modest house more than a collection of functional spaces: a compact environment shaped by the way its occupants live, return, and inhabit the landscape.