Multigenerational houses

100 WINDOWS is a residence for two generations and three households — a parent couple and the families of their two sons — sharing a single building. The site lies along a river in the suburbs of Hanoi, in an area that was once farmland and is now becoming a small town where housing plots and rental factories intermingle. Neither fully urban nor rural, this transitional condition is expected to change substantially over the coming decades. Accepting the uncertainty of the surroundings as a long-term design condition, and keeping a deliberate distance from them, defines the basic stance of the building. Trieu Chien Trieu Chien In the suburbs, unlike in dense urban districts, the relationship between a building and its... More