Tam Dao Retreat

Trieu Chien

• Architects

The area around Tam Dao mountain has quite favorable climate and weather conditions. The cool temperature due to the surrounding mountains and lakes has created conditions for the dense natural forest ecosystem, which partly explains why from the last century, the French came here to design and build some mountain resorts.

The habitat around this area is dominated by pine trees, which grow and cover several low hills and a strip of land close to the mountain. This makes a great background for small and medium-sized private villas or resort villas.

Tam Dao Retreat, as the name suggests, this is the refuge of a family of 3 generations. This land has been preserved for more than 10 years, all 52 large trees in the current land are preserved, surrounded by a solid green painted fence. From a distance, the villa looks like a grey rock existed for a long time, the construction area inside is also quite modest (only taking up 1/10 of the land area), that enough for the whole family to live in harmony with nature.

The villa has a minimalist design style, the combination of spaces around the trees. Two 1-storey blocks and a 2-storey block are connected by iron ladders and communication spaces with nature. The interior space is designed to maximize outwards to enjoy the entire surrounding context, the “cornerless” are made transparent by the large glass doors. Four bedrooms are located at the two ends of the villa, the common living space and the courtyards are designed in the middle to connect all members of the family. The surrounding landscape is composed of an infinity pool placed in the middle of a cluster of pine trees. On sunny or rainy days, this space is almost always stable in terms of natural feel, which makes people living in the house always want to go out to communicate with nature instead of hiding behind glass.

The entire interior of the villa is also selected to match the minimalist style of the whole villa, mainly in neutral tones. Stay on higher elevation, the villas is always quiet, creating a feeling of relaxation for anyone visiting or staying.

The view of respecting nature and the context agreed by both the architect and the investor has created the premise for TDR to have the spirit of "retreat". This is also a gentle attitude towards nature that Idee Architects has been pursuing in the process of creating a chain of resort villas in Vietnam.