Different aspect: People inside the house sense time and weather through shadow and air. (Source: archdaily.com Hanoi (VNS/VNA) -Vietnamese design company H&P Architects has recently been named among theJuly Winners and Popular Choice Winners of the Architizer A+Awards.
The company was awarded for its Brick Cave design in a suburban commune ofHanoi in the Private House and Architecture Brick categories.
The Architizer A Awards focus on promoting and celebrating the year’s bestarchitectural works. Its mission is to nurture the appreciation of architecturein the world and champion its potential for a positive impact on everyday life.
The A Awards live at Architizer.com is a large online community of architects.Entries are judged by a panel of more than 400 distinguished luminaries andthought leaders from fields as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design,real estate development and tech. Finalists and winners are recognised as theyear’s most influential visionaries.
This year, more than 5,000 entries from over 100 nations competed for theawards.
The Brick Cave was built in 2007 covering nearly 300sq.m and designed with aphilosophy that it will help shape a place similar to the natural environmentin an artificial manner.
The overall structure is made up of and enclosed by two layers of brick wallmeeting at an intersection, with alternate ‘green’ arrangements of plants andvegetables. The two layers function as a filter to eliminate the adverseaspects of the environment and bring nature to where necessary inside.
The outer wall is tilted inward at different diagonals to create better viewsof the landscape. This, at the same time, helps users in various corners insidethe house feel the slow of time and weather through shadow and air.
The Brick Cave encompasses a chain of spaces interconnected with one anotherwith random apertures gradually shifting from openness to privacy and viceversa. The combination of “close” and “open” creates diverse relations with thesurroundings.
The building reminds peoples of both strangeness and familiarity by offeringthem images of corners of a yard, expanses of the sky, strips of garden, andparts of an alley. H&P Architects was established in June 2009 by Doan ThanhHa and Tran Ngoc Phuong.
The firm designs offices, residential property, hotels, resorts and hospitals,as well as urban, industrial, educational and infrastructure projects.
The company has won various prizes at the Architizer A Awards 2017, ARCASIAAwards for Architecture 2017 and American Architecture Prize Awards 2017.-VNS/VNA
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