Son La Restaurant
Son La Restaurant
Status:
01/2014
Program:
Restaurant
Location:
Son La province, Vietnam
Site are:
2,200m2
GFA:
1,984m2
Principal Architect:
Vo Trong Nghia
Design team:
Vu Van Hai, Ngo Thuy Duong, Tran Mai Phuong
Bamboo contractor:
Wind and Water House JSC
Client:
Tien Doan Co., Ltd
Photographers:
Hiroyuki Oki, VTN Architects
Located in the North of Vietnam, Son La Province is an ethnic cultural area with abundant nature of wild forests and mountains. Even with its strong cultural and natural heritage, there was too little development for the place as a tourist destination. To explore the potential of the area, Son La Restaurant was built along with its new hotel complex.
Being on a high level with limited accessibility makes the transportation of building materials extremely difficult. Accordingly, the solution was to maximize the advantage of local resources such as bamboo and stone.
To deal with harsh climate conditions in the area, the restaurant is separated into two main sections. The indoor section was composed of 8 separated buildings cladded in stone to provide individual air conditioning in hot seasons. The semi-outdoor section consists of a dining hall with a bamboo structure to shelter occupants heavy rainfalls.
The stone-cladded volumes open up the space, creating multiple entrances to the dining hall and framing the views to the outside. On the other hand, the roof structure for the dining hall was made out of a local bamboo type called “Luong” that could grow up to eight meter in height. 96 bamboo columns, each composed of four individual bamboos, induce the vertical expression of a wild forest.
Shear loads of the roof were braced by the ten layer of crossed bamboo beams, which equally spread them on the stone buildings. Covered with a layer of transparent sheeting on top, the ceiling was made by a local “vot” thatch. Skylights between the columns fill the space with soft sun ray.
With only a modest quote of 600$ per square meter, the restaurant is the first phase of further extensions.
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Awards
World Architecture Festival/ Winner [Category: Hotel & Leisure - Completed]/ Son La Restaurant
FuturArc Green Leadership Award/ Merit [Category: Commercial]/ Son La Restaurant
Green Good Design Awards/ Winner/ Son La Restaurant
International Architecture Awards/ Winner/ Son La Restaurant
National Architecture Awards/ Gold / Son La Restaurant
ARCASIA Awards for Architecture/ Gold Winner [Category: B-1 Public Amenity: Commercial Buildings]/ Son La Restaurant
ARCASIA Awards for Architecture/ Honorable Mention [Category F: Sustainability]/ Son La Restaurant