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Being approximately 20km apart from the center of Ho Chi Minh City, Sen Village designed by architect Vo Trong Nghia and his team members is a new residential area with 2,200 houses. |
As a heart of this area, a community center with the capacity of 250 people is designed by using bamboo and thatch. |
The building has a simple umbrella-like structure which consists of 28 pure bamboo frame units. |
The each frame forms an arch shape, creating a large circular hall with a diameter of 22m when it gathers. The hall is used by citizens of Sen Village for various activities such as parties, banquets, exhibitions, and music performances. |
Periphery of the hall consists of 4-meter-wide terrace and a function volume, which contains some private rooms, bathrooms, a kitchen and a small office. |
Workers spent 250 days on completing the centre which used 10,000 bamboos selected from Long An province. |
The thatched roof overhangs to this area and it achieves 30-meter diameter. |
The skylight also functions to discharge hot air from the top of the roof as breeze cooled by adjacent pond flows through the building. |