Scale-shaped shingles cowl the sweeping, canopy-like roof of Casa Mac, an annexe in Vietnam designed by native structure studio CTA.
Serving as an annexe to the shopper’s present house in Phu My close to Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Casa Mac was conceived as a big, singular dwelling area. It’s open to the weather and flanked on both facet by a vegetable backyard and koi pool.
CTA, which stands for Artistic Architects, sheltered this area with a gently curving, canopy-like roof, bisected at its centre by a protracted skylight by which gentle is filtered by a sequence of hanging, perforated metallic screens.
“We needed to attract nature into the dwelling area as a lot as potential, whereas minimising or concealing typical residential components like doorways, roofs, and partitions,” co-founder Nguyen Thanh informed Dezeen.
“This, mixed with the vaulted arch, evokes the feeling of being inside a cave,” she continued. “All every day human actions and components of nature coexist harmoniously beneath a single, expansive cover of shade.”
Lengthy partitions of uncovered brick flank both facet of the area, with the one concession to partition partitions and doorways being made for a slim block containing a bathroom and loo alongside the southern edge. That is accessed through tall, arched openings.
The massive central space is split into totally different zones by a sequence of inexperienced areas, with planters integrated into two vast runs of steps that join the decrease dwelling, eating and kitchen space to a barely elevated workspace and jacuzzi.
To the west, stone steps lead throughout the koi pond to a parking space, the place slender arched openings within the brick wall lead by to the primary house.
“The area didn’t have to operate like a standard residential house – the room subsequent to the WC is particularly a bathroom, not a bed room, designed as a brief spot the place pals can take a fast relaxation or sober up if they’ve had an excessive amount of to drink,” Thanh mentioned.
“Two small pathways reduce by the thick brick partitions to attach this annex with the previous home at the back and front, offering seamless transitions whereas maintaining the every day actions of the 2 households distinct,” she continued.
Supplies had been chosen to be “uncooked and rustic”, with the uncovered crimson brick partitions being complemented with a ceiling of slender timber planks. Above, the roof is topped by scale-shaped bitumen shingles.
Earlier initiatives by CTA embody a slender house in Bien Hoa, for which the studio used folding doorways and perforated screens to permit for the mediation of sunshine and air flow, and a home clad in reused scallop tiles.
The images is by Hiroyuki Oki.
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