NGHIA-Architect

Nghia-Architect firm was founded in Hanoi in 2015. We are a young and creative architectural firm. With the orientation of sustainable architectural practice and bringing high quality design values. We are proud to have earned recognition through our works with prestigious architectural awards. With our experience and approach to design projects through knowledge and experience from both Asia and Europe, we hope to create new images of contemporary Vietnamese architecture.

AWARDS:

+ Gold winner I Best Residential Design - Viet Nam Design Awards 2022

+ 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 I Residential Design - Large Category I BCI Asia Awards - 2022

+ 1st winner of  Residential Categories I Villa Living - Kohler Bold Design Award - 2021

+ 1st winner of  Residential Categories I Villa Living - Kohler Bold Design Award - 2019

+ Top 10 Houses Awards - 2020

+ 1st winner of  Dream house (Ngoi nha mo uoc) competition - Architecture magazine of Viet Nam Association of architects - 2019

+ 1st winner of  Residential Categories - FuturArc Green Leadership Award 2018 - BCI Asia Pacific - 2018...

PUBLICATIONS:

+ 21 contemporary green architects in Vietnam - 2017

+ Architecture Leader Perspective 2017 – LIXIL

+ Collaborating with VTV3 (Vietnam Television) on television programs: Khong gian xanh, Ban thiet ke cuoc song, Net xanh trong kien truc nay...

+ Futurac magazine, IFJ - India,  BEC - Australia,  Real Estate Malaysia Magazine, SZ Furniture and Design- Hongkong, Elle Decoration Vietnam ...

+ Architect & Culture - Korea I No 445 Jun 2018 vs No 490 Mar 2022

+ The Urban Housing Handbook - 2nd Edition 2022 published by Wiley

+ E-magazine: Archdaily, Dezeen, Designboom, Architizer, Archello...

This townhouse - Maison TT - 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. 

Therefore, the functional spaces are programed and arranged to adapt the traditional lifestyle, despite being modern and experimental in form. 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. 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.  

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