99 Mai Thuc Mortgage Home / Cong Sinh Architects
Textual content description supplied by the architects. The home is positioned on a bustling industrial road in Hue Metropolis. It is a tube home, a highly regarded kind of home in Vietnam. The home was constructed for 3 members of a household, together with an aged couple and their daughter. The home was constructed with the aim of defending individuals’s lives by connecting three vital relationships:
The connection amongst individuals – The structure of the home tries to convey generations collectively in probably the most pure method. The bed room of the aged couple is positioned in the back of the bottom flooring with privateness and ease of entry for them. Proper subsequent to it’s the kitchen-dining room, the brand new focus of the home. That is additionally the place the place the aged couple welcomes some common friends. This space is in the course of the home, under a skylight, and is at all times crammed with pure mild. This area permits the aged couple to see and listen to the each day actions of everybody in the home or the visits of mates. This fashion, they not really feel lonely.
The daughter’s non-public areas from the primary flooring and above embrace her personal lounge, a examine, and a rest room; the daughter’s bed room is positioned proper above the mother and father’ bed room at a distance of two.2 meters from the bottom flooring. Subsequently, each evening, the daughter can hear and instantly determine the irregular respiration from her mother and father in order that she will attend to them promptly. That is an extremely treasured factor to her. These areas assist the daughter nurture her soul and fulfill the desires and ambitions of her life.
The connection between individuals and nature – Though it’s a lengthy and slim tube home positioned on a loud and busy industrial road, the home nonetheless brings individuals as near nature as potential. Based mostly on the situation of the home with the again going through Southeast, which is the path of the cool wind, the constructing opens up the again facade to get the utmost quantity of this wind into the home. The dwelling areas are designed to be utterly open and interconnected, so these cool breezes can attain all elements of the home.
The concrete louver system in all the facade permits the constructing to obtain mild that’s good for individuals’s well being within the morning, blocks all dangerous photo voltaic radiation within the afternoon, and avoids getting moist by the rain. As well as, the stone partitions and the thick roof have good thermal insulation. These components create a cool microclimate for the home. Though the summer time in Hue is scorching, the household hardly ever makes use of air-con tools. There are three skylights organized alongside the size of the home to assist create dwelling areas which can be at all times stuffed with pure mild and well-ventilated.
The connection between individuals and the home – The home is sort of a strong cave, giving the individuals dwelling in it a way of safety and a quiet dwelling area. The quiet areas with a cool microclimate assist individuals to unwind and have a full evening’s sleep. Such a dwelling setting stuffed with pure mild and funky breeze helps individuals lead wholesome lives. That is additionally a spot the place individuals can shelter from the pandemic. The fabric used for the home is Hue’s black stone, a neighborhood kind of stone that’s steadily being forgotten as a result of prevalence of imported stones with varied colours. This materials creates a sense of familiarity and closeness. It may be touched with out the worry of getting broken or smudged. The constructing is sort of a shirt that’s particularly tailor-made for the household. The scale and area within the constructing are good to go well with the peak and desires of the members.
A number of the crops and greens grown in the home are edible, and a few fish are raised in bowls positioned on the concrete louver system within the again facade. This makes the home greener and cooler. Taking care of the crops and fish makes individuals’s lives extra fascinating. Day-to-day, the individuals and the home handle one another, develop into nearer, and from there, the love for each other grows. The home helps to harmoniously mix the three relationships of individuals to individuals, individuals to nature, and other people to the home, which creates a cheerful and fulfilling life. By means of the development of this home, the architect hopes that this inspirational perspective of cohesive design can unfold the notion of a cheerful life in every single place, regardless of how giant or small a home may be.
