Ninh Binh is a small, peaceful city, located 100km to the south of Hanoi ? the capital of Vietnam. Most of the new urban houses here are designed and built in the old-fashioned French mansion style, which was carelessly copied from colonial-style villas in Vietnam in the past. Redundant of pretentious and lavish decoration from the outside, but lacking green and open spaces, those buildings take no account of quality space for human life inside.

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Architects: HGAA

Location: Vietnam

Lead Architects: Nguyen Van Thu, Nguyen Minh Duc

Area: 110.0 m2

Project Year: 2017

Photographs: Trieu Chien

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Text description provided by the architects. Ninh Binh is a small, peaceful city, located 100km to the south of Hanoi ? the capital of Vietnam. Most of the new urban houses here are designed and built in the old-fashioned French mansion style, which was carelessly copied from colonial-style villas in Vietnam in the past. Redundant of pretentious and lavish decoration from the outside, but lacking green and open spaces, those buildings take no account of quality space for human life inside.
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Located among those buildings, Ninh Binh House stands out as a simple, monolithic concrete box surrounded by nature. It is a simple building, using reinforced concrete structure, which is very popular in Vietnam, but designed to create a new, different living space ...