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Rice Office
Rice Office
90, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
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Rice Office
90, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Quận 1, Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2017
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
BUDGET
Undisclosed
HTAP Architects designed a new studio for branding and creative company Rice Creative. The highly visible space adjoins the main lobby of a spare office building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. With two full height glass walls adjoining an outdoor garden, the space has a strong connection to the changing outdoor light and weather conditions -- a feature that the client wanted to preserve.
The project had a challenging design timeline of 4 weeks overlapping 4 weeks of construction. This, coupled with not being able to drill into the floor or two of the four walls, suggested an approach different from a normal build-out. The project was re-conceived as oversized custom furniture pieces to be fabricated in the builder's large furniture shop and then installed in the space. This supported quick design where furniture pieces could be re-arranged after they arrived on site. This shift in approach took the "constraints" of the project and made them drivers in the design thinking.
A palette of raw steel and layered plywood was chosen to identify the studio as a place where things are made, though the pieces themselves are thoughtfully designed and cleanly constructed.
Relationships between the staff, principals and clients are finely balanced. Principals are visible and accessible, but grouped in a semi-private area that centers on an indigo colored plywood and steel working table. Staff workspaces are adjacent to each other promoting collaboration, but with features facilitating personalization. Alternative workspaces scattered throughout the studio provide varying degrees of informality and intimacy. The working boards showing designs in progress are visible from most of the working areas. The production area centers on a cutting table housing dozens of large flat files. Its top features the client's functional graphic design of A-Series page sizes incised into the timber.
Visitors can understand almost the entire space when they enter, but visual access is unobtrusively controlled through careful placement of cabinets and shelves containing awards, books and project archives. Because the studio is relatively compact, each of its spaces was serves multiple purposes. Window boxes function as display areas, waiting areas or design breakout areas. The cutting table can be a display or buffet table during in-house events. Upholstered benches in the break area accommodate small collaboration and design sessions.
The meeting room, though visually spare, can be literally covered with designs, ideas and thoughts through a full wall writing board, magnetic strips for displaying drawings and an internally lit glass topped table. It functions equally well as a secluded workspace for individuals or a meeting place between teams and clients.
The finished space balances between agile informality and well-built simplicity
The project had a challenging design timeline of 4 weeks overlapping 4 weeks of construction. This, coupled with not being able to drill into the floor or two of the four walls, suggested an approach different from a normal build-out. The project was re-conceived as oversized custom furniture pieces to be fabricated in the builder's large furniture shop and then installed in the space. This supported quick design where furniture pieces could be re-arranged after they arrived on site. This shift in approach took the "constraints" of the project and made them drivers in the design thinking.
A palette of raw steel and layered plywood was chosen to identify the studio as a place where things are made, though the pieces themselves are thoughtfully designed and cleanly constructed.
Relationships between the staff, principals and clients are finely balanced. Principals are visible and accessible, but grouped in a semi-private area that centers on an indigo colored plywood and steel working table. Staff workspaces are adjacent to each other promoting collaboration, but with features facilitating personalization. Alternative workspaces scattered throughout the studio provide varying degrees of informality and intimacy. The working boards showing designs in progress are visible from most of the working areas. The production area centers on a cutting table housing dozens of large flat files. Its top features the client's functional graphic design of A-Series page sizes incised into the timber.
Visitors can understand almost the entire space when they enter, but visual access is unobtrusively controlled through careful placement of cabinets and shelves containing awards, books and project archives. Because the studio is relatively compact, each of its spaces was serves multiple purposes. Window boxes function as display areas, waiting areas or design breakout areas. The cutting table can be a display or buffet table during in-house events. Upholstered benches in the break area accommodate small collaboration and design sessions.
The meeting room, though visually spare, can be literally covered with designs, ideas and thoughts through a full wall writing board, magnetic strips for displaying drawings and an internally lit glass topped table. It functions equally well as a secluded workspace for individuals or a meeting place between teams and clients.
The finished space balances between agile informality and well-built simplicity
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