Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced

Concon Hotel

ARB ARCHITECTS as Architects

Although it’s been in operation for over a year, Concon House for a mini-house still gives the impression of being just an architecture student’s dream, rising from a tiny plot in the center of old Hanoi. Its seven floors appear to float in the sky, separated from each other by stilt-like columns.

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

Essentially, it is a collection of independent three-room hotel units ranging in size between 10 and 20 square meters, surrounding a central core containing elevators, plumbing, and electric conduits.

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

Sitting on a 95 square meter plot at the end of a small lane in the congested heart of the Vietnamese capital’s Old Quarter, the structure abuts a small existing building on one side.

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

When the site’s developer appointed her brother to serve as art director for the project, he came to see me and asked if I would like to serve as the architect. I accepted immediately, even before hearing any details about what he had in mind. Having worked with Nguyen before, I trusted him, and felt it would be an interesting and challenging project.

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

He said he liked “the feeling of nooks and crannies created when a piece of the old town is transformed by its social history. I like the feeling of the cramped living quarters’ extension, where people still find small spaces of their own where social interaction is still possible.”

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

In my view, hotel designing is the opportunity to create a space for dozens of people who don’t know each other but suddenly share the same place for a few days, coming in and out as they go about their business.

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

Beyond wanting a clean comfortable place, I feel the need to be able to sit in a quiet corner of a lobby, observing life in new surroundings, a mix of tranquility with hustle and bustle. Solitary enjoyment combined with the opportunity to chat with a receptionist or a bartender.

photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien

Staying in Hanoi’s Old Quarter gives you a special feeling. From bustling streets you enter your dwelling or hotel and it feel as if entering a new hamlet, rather than just a building.

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Trieu Chien
photo_credit Trieu Chien
Trieu Chien
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Trieu Chien
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