// house / Time Architects

Architects: Time Architects
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Design Team: Phạm Thái Ninh, Nguyễn Duy
Area: 38.0 m2
Project Year: 2017
Photographs: Quang Trần, Chimnon Studio

Model: Trình Phương Quyền, Vũ Quốc Hiếu.
Design Studio: Time Architects
Construction Unit: Time Architects; Kakale Corp
Wood Furniture: Hoàng Phong Furniture
Lightning Equipment: Tân Mỹ Á
Alu & Glass Supply: Đông Phương Alu&Glass

Text description provided by the architects. I believe in God. Only I spell it Nature. -Frank Lloyd Wright-

The family members are all Christians. To them, belief is the most important. They want this new house to be modern, on the other hand, it must contain tradition.

Studying the context and the Investor life, the quest for the architects is to find “God” in “Nature” and bring Him to form, in Nature: Light, Wind, The Green,…

Inspired by the space order of the traditional house, with patios, intermediate spaces, louvre doors … are “transformed” to a “Cover”, fitting the needs of living. The “soft-cover”, takes the role as an in-out environment filter as well as enhancing the interactions between homeowners and neighbors. The voids in the house are the “storage” for future “changes”. The separating-wood floors are used instead of the concrete, solid floors. Through the voids, Nature, in form of lights and winds, spreads throughout the house. Wherever the place in this house, people can feel Nature surrounding them, changing as time goes by.