Stone House

Stone House

Status:

02/2012

Program:

Private House

Location:

Dong Trieu, Quang Ninh province, Vietnam

GFA:

360m2

Principal Architect:

Vo Trong Nghia

Design team:

Nguyen Anh Tai, Nguyen Minh Tung

Client:

Individual

Photographers:

Hiroyuki Oki

This torus-shaped stone house is located in a quiet residential quarter en route to Ha Long Bay Hanoi. A rising green roof and walls composed of subdued dark blue stones create a landscape, which stands out boldly in the new residential area. The rooms surround the oval courtyard, making a colony-like relationship with each other.Circulating flow runs around the courtyard and continues to the green roof, connecting all places in the house. This courtyard and green roof compose a sequential garden, which creates a rich relationship between inside and outside the house. Residents experience the changes of the seasons and learn to appreciate their wealthy life with nature, thanks to this sequential garden.

 

To create a wall with smooth curvature, cubic stones with a thickness of 10cm were carefully stacked. Consequently, the wall performs the play of light and shadow. Massive and meticulous texture of the wall generates a cave-like space, which recalls the image of a primitive house.