The house is located in Nha Trang, surrounded by beautiful ocean and mountains. |
The client wanted a large house with a large garden. Answering to this request, a single roof is designed as a hanging garden to plant numerous trees and plants on it. |
The local building code, however, requires almost 50% of the roof area be covered by grey or orange-colour tiling and sloped. |
To comply with this rule but maximize the green area atop, the roof is divided into parallel bands of greened roofs and tiled roofs in an alternating sequence. |
The interior spaces of the house are structured by this system of parallel bands. |
Under the tiled roof are the living, dining and bed rooms, while service spaces such as bathrooms, storages and circulation spaces are under the greened roof. |
A void and three patios are designed within the system of bands to enhance natural lighting and ventilation. |
The house is one of the latest variations of the serial house project called ‘house for trees’. |
The large single roof is departing from the scale of private house. It is more like an infrastructure or a pocket park open to the neighbours. |
Gently sloped, this roof-landscape is visually connected to the surrounded mountains. In the shadow of trees, the residents can enjoy the views and spend their life with full of greenery. |
