Stacking Green
Stacking Green
Status:
02/2011
Program:
Private House
Location:
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
GFA:
215m2
Principal Architect:
Vo Trong Nghia, Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa.
Design team:
Nguyen Minh Tung
Contractor:
Wind and Water house Joint Stock Company
Client:
Individual
Photographers:
Hiroyuki Oki
Numerous developing Asian cities are becoming indistinguishable. They are losing their regional characteristics under the influence of furious urban sprawls and commercialism. The population boom further worsens the quality of life as well as the quality of greenery in those developing cities. Ho Chi Minh City - Vietnam^s largest metropolitan area is not an exception. Built in 2011, the private house "Stacking Green" takes an experimental approach in designing to challenge this situation.
Even in advanced nations, people have a desire for more trees both in public and private spaces. So locals are already pro-actively decorating their streets with plants and flowers to turn their surroundings into a greenwood. "Stacking Green" is driven by the same desire. Instead of limiting plants to the street level, planters are distributed vertically over the facade.
The private house, designed for a thirty-year-old couple and their mother, is a typical tube house constructed on a four-meter-wide-and-twenty-meter-deep plot. The front and back facades are both composed of layers of concrete planters cantilevered two sidewalls. Not only does the green facade provide visual comfort for the occupants, but it protects its inhabitants direct sunlight, street noise, and pollution. Post-calculation for determining passive cooling in the house has shown wind flowing through the porous facade and two skylights, which helps the inhabitants feel comfortable Because they rarely use air conditioning, the electric charge only costs 25 USD per month on average. The cost of water can be excluded the ancillary expenses because plants are watered automatically with a rainwater collecting system.
"Stacking Green" has achieved several international recognition, among them is a place in the Top 10 of Most Popular Projects by ArchDaily in 2012.
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09/2017 Stacked Planters House 09/2017
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04/2014 House for trees 04/2014
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06/2013 Binh Thanh House 06/2013
02/2013 Green Renovation 02/2013
02/2011 Stacking Green 02/2011
In progress Diamond Lotus In progress
Awards
FuturArc Green Leadership Award/ Citation/ Stacking Green
Green Good Design Awards/ Winner/ Stacking Green
International Architecture Awards/ Winner/ Stacking Green
World Architecture Festival/ Winner [Category: House]/ Stacking Green
ARCASIA Awards for Architecture/ Honorable Mention [Category A-1 Single Family Residential Projects]/ Stacking Green
ArchDaily Building of The Year 2012 [Category: Houses]/ Stacking Green