A mono-pitched roof and uncovered metal body give an industrial character to the Binh Thuan Home in Phan Thiet, Vietnam, designed by native architect MIA Design Studio.
Conceived as a stripped-back and “actually strange” dwelling for a household of 4 with a restricted price range, the 86-square-metre residence has a modular design that permits for simple modification or enlargement sooner or later.
“This home is really strange residential structure,” defined MIA Design Studio. “After we do the strange, we do it in a really fundamental manner,” it continued.
“These fundamentals are the organisation of pure mild, pure air flow, and the creation of purposeful areas and inside circulation, thereby creating each behaviour and life.”
Constructed throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Binh Thuan Home required a design that might be constructed rapidly and with locally-available supplies and labour – leading to a modular and uncovered metal body.
As a way to permit the homeowners to “take part in shaping the aesthetic” of the house, its metal construction can also be a method of becoming home windows, curtains, furnishings and photos, all of which could be modified over time.
“From the skin, it appears like a typical corrugated iron home within the countryside with a prefabricated metal body structural system,” stated MIA Design Studio.
“Nonetheless, it additionally implies that the body of the home should even be a sliding door body, a body for hanging furnishings, a body of curtains, a body for hanging garments,” it continued.
Inside, the dwelling contains a single open area, subdivided by white curtains. These curtains additionally line sliding doorways that separate the house’s outer envelope from a skinny backyard round its northern edge.
The doorway leads into a big residing, eating and kitchen space beneath the uncovered mono-pitched roof. Right here, a big white storage unit doubles as a spatial divider that brings better privateness to the adjoining toilet and bedrooms.
At each the entrance and rear of the house, the corrugated metallic roof extends outwards to shelter two terrace areas, outlined by hole sections of the metal body.
“The design expertise has questioned easy methods to construct when the sources round us change into restricted, and which values flip superficial or invariant over time,” stated the studio. “Generally, the essential is one of the best we are able to do!”
MIA Design Studio was based by architect Nguyen Hoang Manh in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis in 2003.
Its earlier mission features a pavilion for architectural occasions in Thủ Đức designed to appear to be a large pile of straw, and a house in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis lined with protruding planters.
