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Weddings and parties take place inside halls framed by stone, timber and bamboo at this events building for a Vietnam hotel by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects (+ slideshow).

The Kontum Indochine Wedding Restaurant is the second building Vo Trong Nghia Architects has completed at the Kontum Indochine Hotel, following a bamboo cafe that is situated next door.

There are three banquet halls contained inside the building – one on the ground floor that seats 800 guests and two on the first floor that each accommodate up to 400 people.

The largest space is known as the Stone Hall, as it surrounded by ridged walls made up of basalt stone slabs. Some of the slabs have been polished, while others have been either hammered or left raw.

“These stone slabs have different surfaces, creating both dignified and delicate spatial characteristics, which are well suited to festive ceremonies,” said the architects.

The other two halls are double-height spaces with vaulted ceilings, including one made from self-supporting bamboo frames and one comprising nine fan-shaped timber fins.

A large foyer connects the three halls and leads up to offices on the second floor.

A louvred facade made from locally quarried pink granite surrounds three of the building’s elevations, helping to shade the interiors from direct sunlight.

“The louvres blur the outline and details of the building, creating an abstract volume, well balanced with the surrounding landscape,” added the studio.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects completed the Kontum Indochine Cafe earlier this year. Other projects by the firm include a bamboo-framed conference centre and a school with open-air corridors.

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Photography is by Hiroyuki Oki.

Here’s a project description from Vo Trong Nghia Architects:

Kontum Indochine Wedding Restaurant

Kontum Indochine Wedding Restaurant is designed as a part of a hotel complex along the Dakbla River in Kontum City, Central Vietnam. Adjacent to Dakbla Bridge, a gateway to Kontum City, the restaurant serves as a venue for wedding ceremonies, conferences and social activities of the hotel guests and citizens. The 5500-square-metre building, which contains three banquet halls and office space over three storeys, is covered by louvres made of local pink granite stone, quarried in Binh Dinh Province, 150km away from the site. The louvres blur the outline and details of the building, creating an abstract volume, well balanced with the surrounding landscape. Two different finishes were applied to each louvre; its front surface was polished, creating a sparkling exterior when exposed to sunlight, while the two edges and back surface were framed to soften the light coming into the building. Visitors can enjoy the view of the river through the louvres in light pink, being protected from harsh tropical sunlight.

The three banquet halls feature three different natural materials; stone, bamboo, and wood. Walls and columns of the “Stone Hall”, located on the ground floor and capable of 800 guests, are composed of Basalt stone slabs 120 deep, 80mm high and 595mm long. These stone slabs have different surfaces; pitch-faced, polished or hammered, creating both dignified and delicate spatial characteristics, which are well suited to festive ceremonies. 

Both the “Bamboo Hall” and “Wooden Hall” are located on the second level, each having capacity for 400 guests. The materials vary between the two halls, giving different characteristics of each space.

The “Bamboo Hall” is a ceremonial space composed of self-standing bamboo frames 6.5m high and spanning 18m. These bamboo frames are illuminated by the light fittings, hence the hall gives a quiet and intimate impression compared to the bamboo structure in the adjacent facility; “Indochine Café” which is a commodious open space.

The “Wooden Hall” has a ceiling consisting of nine fan-shaped louvres. The louvres are made of 20mm x 50mm brightly coloured pieces of endemic timber locally called “Kate”. The ceiling gently illuminates the interior functions similar to a light shade.

Natural light and air pass through the pink stone louvres into the foyer, which lies in front of the two halls and is accessible from the staircase on both ends of the building.

Architect Firm: Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Principal architects: Vo Trong Nghia, Takashi Niwa (2 principals)
Status: Built in 07. 2013
Program: Banquet hall
Location: Kontum, Vietnam
GFA: 5,524m2
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki
Client: Truong Long JSC
Contractor: Truong Long JSC + Wind and Water House JSC

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Vietnamese architects Sanuki + Nishizawa have adapted the prototypical Vietnamese tube house to create a tall, narrow residence that lets daylight penetrate its walls and floors (+ slideshow).

Located in Ho Chi Minh City, the four-storey family residence is 21 metres deep but just four metres wide, typical of the tube houses that are common throughout Vietnam’s cities.

These proportions make it difficult to bring natural light and ventilation through the buildings, which have no side windows, so Sanuki + Nishizawa introduced light wells, exposed staircases and flexible partitions to the interior spaces of ANH House.

“The main theme of this house is to explore the possibility of a new lifestyle in Vietnam, in which such dark and humid spaces can be improved drastically into bright and open ones,” said the architects.

The ground floor features a double-height living room sandwiched between a pair of open-tread staircases, creating a well-lit family area with a raised dining room and kitchen at one end.

Woven bamboo screens enclose bedrooms on all four floors and can be folded back when necessary.

The texture of this wood is echoed in the surface of the concrete floor plates, which were set against bamboo formwork.

Large planters allow spaces for tropical plants throughout the house, including on the three balconies that front the street-facing elevation. Meanwhile, some of the light wells double up as cooling pools of water.

“We can feel the natural wind and live comfortably without air conditioning in this house, which [offers] a lifestyle connecting to the outside natural environment,” said Sanuki + Nishizawa.

Sanuki + Nishizawa previously collaborated with Vo Trong Nghia Architects on a house with half of its floors screened behind hollow concrete blocks and the other half exposed to the elements.

Other modern takes on the Vietnamese tube house include a renovated home with a narrow atrium in Hanoi and a residence with a vertical garden on its facade.

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Here’s more information from Sanuki + Nishizawa:

ANH House

This house, designed for a thirty-year-old-women and her family, is built on the plot of 4m wide and 21m deep in Ho Chi Minh City, which is very typical for urban tube houses in Vietnam. The main request from the client was to realise a bright and open space filled with natural light and greenery.

Tube house, the most typical housing style in Vietnam, itself has a critical difficulty in getting enough natural light and ventilation firstly because there’s no opening on the two long boundary sidewalls and secondly because Vietnamese people tend to have lots of fixed partition walls for separating many bedrooms. Therefore, the main theme of this house is to explore the possibility of a new lifestyle in Vietnam, in which that such dark and humid space need to be improved drastically into a bright and open one.

The house is designed with 4 solid thick slabs and no normal fixed partition walls. Each slab, stuck in the different height, has several voids that lead natural reflection light from the top-light, façade and backside into the house. In addition, each slab is set out with several holes of terrazzo bath-tub and foot-space for sitting, especially the 15 holes for greenery with different kinds of tropical plants to make the space attractive and fresh. Furthermore normal familiar fixed partition walls are replaced into light, movable and translucent partitions for separating bed spaces, adjusting balance between the privacy for each individual space and the fluency of whole big space according to the lifestyle’s request.

These partitions are the folding or sliding doors with woven bamboo as a shade and jalousie windows system which are easily opened for the natural wind circulation to go through the whole house spaces. Briefly, all of design intents are to fulfil the tube house spaces with greenery, brightness, well-ventilations then transform the narrow, dark, humid passive residential housing into “the space connecting to the outside natural environment” – where the people can feel real outside atmosphere.

The house structure is a RC frame structure with reversal beams system. Besides, using the woven bamboo sheet as concrete work’s frames for engraving the bamboo pattern on the exposed concrete ceiling, not only emphasises the continuous slab and natural lighting effect, but also creates stronger aesthetic effect together with real woven bamboo of doors system. All these materials and techniques adopted into this house design are local and widely common in Vietnam.

We can feel the natural wind and live without air conditioner comfortably in this house that has the “lifestyle connecting to the outside natural environment”. Somehow, this sustainable and ecological proposal is considered as a re-definition of the Vietnamese traditional lifestyle connecting to the outside environment in the contemporary housing. We really hope this simple, bright and open lifestyle can be one of the effective alternatives in the modern lifestyle in Vietnam.

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A knot-shaped rooftop will be used as a vegetable garden at this kindergarten by Vo Trong Nghia Architects that’s under construction in Dong Nai, Vietnam (+ slideshow).

Set to complete later this year, the Farming Kindergarten is designed by Vietnamese firm Vo Trong Nghia Architects as a prototype for sustainable school design, where children can learn how to grow their own food.

The roof has a continuous surface that loops around to frame the outline of three courtyard playgrounds. It slopes up from the ground and peaks at two storeys, allowing an easy climb to the vegetable garden for children and their teachers.

“While these internal courtyards provide safety and comfortable playgrounds for children, the roof makes a landing to the courtyards at both sides, allowing children to enter a very special eco-friendly experience when they walk up and go through it,” say the architects.

Classrooms inside the building will follow the same loop as the roof and will accommodate up to 500 children. Concrete louvres will shade the windows, offering relief from intense sunlight.

Vo Trong Nghia Architects won the schools category at the World Architecture Festival awards last year for its naturally ventilated Binh Duong School. In an interview with Dezeen, Vo Trong Nghia explained how he believes “green buildings” that use less energy are the future of architecture in Vietnam. See more architecture by Vo Trong Nghia or see more stories about design in Vietnam.

Other kindergartens completed recently include a doughnut-shaped pre-school in China and a nursery in France with rippling concrete walls. See more kindergartens on Dezeen.

Construction photography is by Hiroyuki Oki.

Here’s a project description from Vo Trong Nghia Architects:

Farming Kindergarten

This kindergarten, for 500 pre-school children, is a prototype for sustainable education spaces in tropical climates. The plan was designed for the factory workers children of Pou Chen Vietnam.

The building concept is a “Farming Kindergarten” with a continuous green roof, providing food and agriculture experience to Vietnamese children, as well as a safe outdoor playground.

The green roof is a triple-ring-shape drawn with a single stroke, creating three courtyards inside. While these internal courtyards provide safety and comfortable playgrounds for children, the roof makes landing to the courtyards at both sides, allowing children to enter a very special eco-friendly experience when they walk up and go through it. This green roof is designed as a continuous vegetable garden, a place to teach children the importance of agriculture and relationship with nature.

Architectural and mechanical energy-saving methods are comprehensively applied including but not limited to: green roof, PC-concrete louver for shading, recycle materials, water recycling, solar water heating and so on. These devices are designed visibly for children to play their important role in sustainable education. The building is designed to maximise the natural ventilation through a computational fluid dynamics analysis.

The building is now under construction and expected to start its operation in September 2013.

Status: Under construction
Program: Kindergarten
Location: Dongnai, Vietnam
Site area: 10,650 m2
GFA: 3,800m2

Architect Firm: Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Principal architects: Vo Trong Nghia, Takashi Niwa, Masaaki Iwamoto
Architects: Tran Thi Hang, Kuniko Onishi
Contractor: Wind and Water House JSC
Client: Pou Chen Vietnam

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Nine stone cabins are sheltered beneath a single thatched roof in this addition to a hotel resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam, by architecture practice a21studio (+ slideshow).

The buildings nestle into the rugged landscape of the I-Resort, forming an uneven row that wraps around a pair of staggered outdoor swimming pools and also includes a small bar and restaurant.

The architects at a21studio used indigenous techniques to construct the cabins, helped by a team of local masons and carpenters. Walls are built from locally quarried stone, while the roofing is made from timber and coconut leaves.

“The wooden roofs are constructed in a traditional way with mortise and tenon joint techniques,” explain the architects. “These joints are easy to assemble and the connections are very strong, neat and hard to wobble.”

The layout of each cabin is the same; a living room occupies one side of the space, while a toilet and washroom are tucked away at the back and a small paddling pool sits at the front.

Patterned tiles add a mixture of colours to the interior walls and floors. Windows are circular and entrances are positioned along the sides.

The bar and restaurant also shelters beneath the thatched roof and is positioned at the centre of the plan. This space is filled with reclaimed furniture and features a wall covered in old doors.

Other thatched cabins we’ve featured recently include reconstructed residences on an island in Indonesia and a bamboo bar in Vietnam’s Binh Duong Province.

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Photography is by Hiroyuki Oki.

Here’s some more information from a21studio:

9 Spa

9 spa is a set of nine hotel houses with spas, mud and mineral baths together with a small bar and restaurant, located in the centre of the group. The buildings are perched in the folds of halfway terrace up to a rock mountain and looking down to the service area, which has run business from two years ago. On this side, the project is received a lot of rain but lacked of wind from the river.

Using indigenous building techniques and materials, and adopting local custom as the key to managing the project, both architecturally and otherwise, 80 village masons, carpenters and craft persons were enlisted to build the hotel in a period of 9 months. The project was designed as a combination of dry-stacked stone with wood structure, quarried right on the site. All other materials such as coconut leaves and used furniture are used on the same manner.

The houses are set up in different specific angles and placed separately by a distance to let rain water go down easily from the top of mountain. The spaces between the blocks make an entrance lobby for each house. Moreover, it helps to increase ventilation for the whole area. The wooden roofs are constructed in a traditional way with mortise and tenon joint techniques. These joints are easy to assemble and the connections are very strong, neat, and hard to be wobbled. Unlike old buildings, in which these techniques are adopted popular, 9 spa is structured with lighter and lissom looks. Above this wooden structure, the roof is divided into 3 layers, including 20 mm thick wood panels, which gives an aesthetic look to ceiling and links all beams together, water proof and 30 mm coconut leaves, respectively. Besides, the project also makes use of old furniture from nearby buildings such as doors, tables and chairs or patterned tiles, give the buildings a distinctive look, the beauty or serenity of old items that comes with age.

The bar, with less than a dozen seats and the wooden floor, faced out to a garden looking to public resort, which makes the hotel hideaway from eventful area downhill. The level of restaurant floor was above from the ground, thereby linking the outside space to the interior and offering a new viewpoint to the customers, while not touching to existing nature. On the other words, by any means necessary, nature is treated as the core value to the whole building, that its beauty can be contemplated at every corner of the project. That could be a row of mountain far away through a rounded window or a garden view is enframed as a picture by unusual opens.
In conclusion, a group of nine hotel houses are linked by a continuous wooden roof, reflecting its surrounding environment and landscape. By using local materials as rock and wood together with adopting old furniture, 9 spa gives an extraordinary value to the existing project.

Client: I-resort
Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
Project area: 1080 sqm
Building area: 450 sqm
Materials: rock, wood, coconut leaf, used furniture and tiles
Completed: 2013

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