Folding glass doorways and perforated steel screens mediate mild, air flow and noise on the J Home in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, designed by native studio CTA.
CTA, brief for Inventive Architects, was approached by a trainer who had purchased a slim 4 by 24 meter lot and wished to create a light-weight and ethereal home that may accommodate areas for her gardening pastime.
Set again from the road behind a perforated steel gate, Casa J is organized as a layering of areas, beginning with a lounge and a classroom accessed via full-height folding glass doorways.
Past this room is a kitchen and eating area within the middle of the home, resulting in a bed room and a small personal backyard on the southern finish.
Every of those areas is separated by giant, wood-framed screens crammed with translucent, clear, and textured glass panels that create a wide range of mild qualities and sight strains via the inside.
As a result of narrowness of the location, skylights are used to attract mild and air into the middle and again of the home. They’re coated with a skinny layer of stones to cut back glare and create dappled shadows inside.
“After analyzing the everyday defects of townhouses, the workforce put the standards of inexperienced area, pure mild, pure air flow and noise prevention on the prime of the priorities within the design course of,” defined the CTA.
“The inside area is at all times filled with pure mild however not sizzling, plus the shade from the stone layers creates an impact much like the solar via the leaves, serving to to extend the sensation of nature.”
A skylight staircase results in the smaller first ground of Home J, which accommodates an extra bed room, lavatory and patio area to the entrance and a roof backyard sheltered by a metal-framed pergola to the rear.
Externally, the higher ground of the home is clad in a grid sample of finely perforated steel panels, with a spot to permit unobstructed views from the bed room window and terrace.
Inside, a palette of darkish wooden panelling, concrete and stone enhances the dappled shades, giving the house a way of heat and intimacy, whereas the hollow-frame ceiling system helps take up road noise.
Based in 2014, CTA is a Vietnamese structure studio led by Bui The Lengthy, Vo The Duy and Nguyen Thi Xuan Thanh in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis.
Different not too long ago accomplished initiatives by the studio embrace a slim home in Tay Ninh, clad in scalloped brown tiles, and one other residence in Bien Hoa, which is clad in perforated bricks.
Images is by Hiroyuki Oki.