Nomad is the intersection of local culture and modern breath, it is an opening coffee house for everyone to connect and experience together.
1. Location:
Nomad located at Nguyen Ai Quoc Street, Bien Hoa city, Dong Nai province, Vietnam, where most of the populations are be devout Catholicism with a church every few kilometers.
2. Design concept:
With a unique local culture, we wanted to create something that associates people with this land. So, the atmosphere of a small chapel provided us the inspiration - what we aim for. It's gentle and quiet.
3. Function:
Ground floor: An opening-space without walls, inside and outside are connected with rotated steel - glass door systems along façade that open to welcome everyone, it likes a public space.
Upper floor: With a quiet atmosphere, it closes to be at home. Project consists of 2 areas: indoor (connected with ground floor through the void space, people can see the surrounding view); outdoor is the balcony (running along the facade, creating a themed buffer space between the inside and the outside).
4. Construction plan and Materials:
Construction plan: Kept the available old reinforcement concrete structures and let them show out. In order to increase the need for uses in the project, we added the steel structure, with modules: corrugated perforated steel plate module, rotated glass doors systems module. A elliptic iron scale is calculated to optimize the area. We hope that when contract of house renting end at here, materials will be processed and reused for new project.
Materials: We used as less materials as we can, there is a marked contrast between steel, glass and handmade floor- wall material.
Nomad means a moving from one place to another rather than staying in one place all of the time. The investor chose that name and rent the land for 5 years only. Based on it, we thought about building a coffee house with the atmosphere in the small chapels and using steel, glass material that can be moved and reused after rent contract ended.
With limited space, we carefully arrange furniture items to optimize the usable area. Take advantage of available surrounding landscape, we arranged space layout for indoor and outdoor to create as many experiences as possible.