This townhouse is designed to accommodate a three generations family in a fast-growing urban area. Like other areas in Da Nang, it is difficult to find a balance between the slow pace living lifestyle of the local people and the modern lifestyle that is rapidly taking over this city.
Inspired by Japanese Origami art (which partly affected the culture and architecture of Hoi An-Da Nang), we folding and pulling all functional spaces closer to the core space in the middle of this house, which is an internal courtyard (an architectural feature that is very common in Danang people’s homes). The architecture form is based on a spiral-centered structure. All the internal spaces attached to a core wall that swirling inwards vertically, and connected to each other though interwoven traffic paths that go around the core wall. The spiral staircase that runs around the core space of the house is both an architectural highlight and increasing the “cross section” to connect different functional spaces as well as the members of the three generations family that lives in this house.
Maison TT is designed for a young couple with their two children and their elderly mother. Therefore, the functional spaces are programed and arranged to adapt the traditional lifestyle, despite being modern and experimental in form. The kitchen, which is attached with the skylight, is the heart of the house which connecting all family member thought its activities. The green area within the kitchen, right under the skylight, has plants that grow vertically and reach out to other internal spaces on the upper levels, brings sunlight, wind and nature all around the house. The idea of this house is to create a structure that shrinks to the courtyard in the middle of the house on the first floor and then opens up to different directions as we go on to different level. This structure allows people who dwelling inside this house can connect with each other and the nature inside and outside of its structure in harmony and sustainability.
Construction completed at 2020.
Team:
Architect: Nghia-Architect
Photography: Nguyen Tuan Nghia
