Get closer to true outdoor living. This green-inspired home, nicknamed ?The Drawers House?, was concepted by MIA Design Studio to let the outdoors in. Based in Vung Tau, Vietnam, it uses 60% of its 470sqm purely for landscape. Rooms behave like ?drawers?, sliding in and out between alternating pockets of garden, pools and natural vistas. […]

Get closer to true outdoor living. This green-inspired home, nicknamed ?The Drawers House?, was concepted by MIA Design Studio to let the outdoors in. Based in Vung Tau, Vietnam, it uses 60% of its 470sqm purely for landscape. Rooms behave like ?drawers?, sliding in and out between alternating pockets of garden, pools and natural vistas. Facing in the same direction, each drawer shows a space interspersed by nature – rooms where nature controls the atmosphere, providing brightness, shade, light patterns and cool at its surrounding fauna?s whim. Take a tour through its connecting hallway to see its many pockets for yourself.
Our first view invites with an open plan space decked with pools, tiled patios and an abundance of greenery. Two wooden doors frame either side of a wide glass panel, the perfect place to gaze out to the leafy surrounds. Taking turns, the pool and glass reflect living nature.

Looking diagonally, wide sheets of plaster create a dividing wall and patio shelter, seemingly matching with the floor tiling. Two trees make friends in a central pool planting, providing shade for its school of fish.

Wooden ele...