High ceilings and large glass windows, it is a combination for a spacious, airy and close to nature space. Also there, the vertical and horizontal horizontal stripes help to stand out more under the decorative lighting effect. The designer has clearly expressed a modern house by simplifying the interior form and color of the ceiling, wall, floor. The 50m2 master bedroom is an integration of a spacious sleeping space, dressing area and private bathroom, all of which connect directly to the outdoor courtyard. Relaxing feeling – Chillout is a phrase that homeowners often mention about this room when enjoying the scent and light music emitted by the Marshall speaker in the rainy afternoon. Living room, kitchen area with white, black and gray tones combined with accents with paintings and decor items creates a modern feeling. A sincere sharing from the female owner: “I don’t need a flashy house. In this place, before going to bed and every time I wake up, what I see is nature. When I eat or drink or when I entertain relatives and friends, what exists close to me is still nature. I appreciate that and secretly thank the architect for what the architect has brought to me.” 50m2 for a place to rest and relax for the female owner is the most ideal place. Here every afternoon, when the dawn dawns, she can mingle with nature and enjoy a peaceful life. Construction: DD House, Tay Ninh city

Chaired by: Architect Nguyen Ly Van Quoc – Q.Architects Construction – Design Consultant Co., Ltd Perform: Wan Quoc – Image: Minq Bui

The project is in the form of townhouses, built on a 125m2 plot of land in Thu Dau Mot city, Binh Duong province, with three surfaces adjacent to another building and only one open front. The request of the landlord is to create a living space close to nature, with ventilation, with many trees. According to the blueprint, the architects have stepped forward to have a yard, which is also a viewpoint. The house has a 2-storey structure in the front and 3 floors behind. From the outside, the house has a modern, simple and elegant appearance. The first floor is the living room space and the kitchen – dining room connected from the outside to the inside. The stairs to the second floor stretched to one side. This staircase has a concrete structure built with bricks to make use of the undercarriage to make a WC room, and borrow the railing as a wall to hang the television. For a cool feel, white is used as the main color combined with gray and light brown wood. Very simple furniture suitable for modern architectural style. To enhance connections and interactions between members and create lots of space for children to function, right upstairs there is a children’s play area. The point of view of the owner and the design team is that there is a place for children to play and move on every floor. The kitchen – dining room is located at the back of the house, attached to the garden under the backyard well. The garden is designed with many levels to create an interesting highlight. This place is always full of sunshine and wind and is also a children’s play place close to nature. Next to the stairs in the middle of the house is a large well. The stairs going from the 2nd floor to the 3rd floor are made of – wooden steel to create ventilation and this structural system is like flying in space. The roof system is made up of folded concrete beams and glass roofs to create light and shimmering shadows in the interior. The corridor on the second floor is also very wide with many trees. The parents bedroom on the second floor at the back of the house opens up to the well and a hallway with a large glass wall to connect the space. Sunlight can shine into the bedroom. Bedroom furniture is simple, unified throughout the house: White walls and ceilings, gray floors and light wood furniture in a simple form. Walls open to the wells use brick holes to create ventilation. The dotted green color makes the space cool and lively. Skylight area – staircase between the house viewed from above; always flooded with sunshine and wind. Stairs and steel-wood corridors lead to the third floor behind the house. This place is a worship room combined with a library. The church wall is made up of slender spokes that evoke a sense of lightness and repeat the image of the house’s facade with sloping roofs. The wooden ceiling system in the shrine room evokes a warm, intimate feeling. Sunshine spreads everywhere and light effects are part of interior aesthetics./.

The wood stove in the corner of the 5th floor of Ms. Mai Vuong’s family. In the photo, Ms. Vuong’s mother is wrapping banh chung for Tet. At first, the idea of ​​building a wood stove on the 5th floor of Ms. Vuong was opposed by her husband for fear of fire and explosion, causing heat to pour downstairs … But after hearing her persuasion, Ms. Vuong’s husband – an architect, Find out reasonable solutions for the wood stove on the 5th floor of the house. The kitchen was built with refractory bricks by the family, built away from the wall, creating an open slot to reduce the heat of the oven. Kitchen smoke is led up to the roof through a chimney 1m away from the roof. The stove is in a fixed area, the firewood is kept in a separate area to avoid the ashes scattered on flammable items. At the same time, the whole house is equipped with a smoke alarm system, each floor is equipped with a fire extinguisher. The 5th floor area of ​​Ms. Vuong’s family is also a space with an open side, instead of being enclosed in 4 walls. Here, in addition to the wood stove, she also sets a dining table, grows flowers for family and friends to eat, drink tea, and chat with. On the Facebook group, the AHN account said: “My family is okay, but it’s too dangerous for the surrounding houses if anything happens. My house cooks from itself, the electric system switches itself off and cooks at night. After that, you have to unplug all the wires from the socket “. “The front of the house is empty space, there is no house behind the house with 5 floors”, Ms. Vuong explained before the ideas that the kitchen could endanger the surrounding community. The wood stove is located on the 5th floor with open space. After building a kitchen, she returned to her hometown to buy galangal, rice husks, peanut shells, and collect longan firewood from her garden for fuel. The old cast iron pots in the past were also “spared” to Hanoi to cook rice. “I really like the kitchen up here, so every time I have time I go to the 5th floor to cook for family and friends to come and play. I make all the dishes every day from the kitchen, from cooking rice to fish storage, boiling meat, baking dishes … There are rustic dishes that only wood cookers can do, also my friends come to play at home. For example, burnt rice from a cast iron pot, ”shared Ms. Vuong. Thanks to the wood stove, last Tet, her family was able to cook 4 pots of banh chung. From fried beef … … until fried beans are cooked on a wood stove. The kitchen is built of flame retardant material. The wood stove of Ms. Vuong after sharing on Facebook received many compliments and expressed her excitement. There are also many opinions that the wood stove only satisfies the taste of the country for a moment, but it entails many other inconveniences in cleaning the pots, smoke in the eyes, hot when cooking in the summer, especially. especially the risk of fire and explosion. However, for someone who likes country feeling like Vuong, those shortcomings can be completely overcome. “To me, cooking with wood stove is very relaxing and enjoyable” – Ms. Vuong said.

The project is located in Long Bien district, Hanoi, has the structure of a townhouse with two open front and back sides. Design architects give an image of a modern house that is still close thanks to the wood material in the gate system and the facade. Because the house is facing west, the wooden bar is arranged to both contribute to prevent heat radiation and also play a role in shaping the building. Taking advantage of a part of the ground floor for the garage, the roof garden of this architectural block creates an open green space with trees reaching high in front of the house. On the first floor is the space connecting the living room – kitchen and dining room. Stairs to the upper floor are designed nestled on one side to create a wide open space. Modern style interior with simple lines. Main color is neutral. Wood is used in a reasonable amount to bring intimacy but still elegance. The kitchen and dining room are located at the back connecting to a small back garden. Modern kitchen cabinets with white-brown color scheme create harmony. The house is also equipped with an elevator in the corner of the house to increase convenience in use and living. Stairs with slender, graceful steps. The second floor is a children’s space with two bedrooms. Interestingly, the long staircase upstairs stops here and is followed by a new staircase in another position that winds across the water. Next to it is the living and playing space of the children. This is an interesting and expensive highlight in the interior of the house. The use of the dark color of the bottom of the water surface feels deep, but actually the water is very shallow for safety. The third floor is the parent bedroom which is arranged as a mini apartment with different functional areas: sleeping, toilet, wardrobe and dressing. All arranged in sequence and handy. The third floor is the parent bedroom which is arranged as a mini apartment with different functional areas: sleeping, toilet, wardrobe and dressing. All arranged in sequence and handy. Wood material is almost carpentry, revealing, giving a warm, close feeling. Spacious bathroom opens up to a garden with green trees./.

Skylights are a popular architectural solution in today’s housing projects, aiming to exploit light and ventilation for townhouses that lack airy surfaces. Being part of a technical element, but a skylight brings a certain aesthetic value and freshness, is a highlight for the interior space of the house.

The skylight next to the stairs, under the skylight is a distinctive staircase as a highlight.

In fact, the sky well has existed since ancient times. In the tube-shaped townhouses in the old quarter of Hanoi, Hoi An, Saigon Cholon area … the well has been applied in construction design to ensure natural lighting and ventilation. These townhouses have a narrow width and great length (depth) – up to tens of meters and also have only 1 or 2 modest open sides (front and back); Meanwhile, the space used by functional rooms stretches along the depth of the house. Skylights here may have roofs, they may not have roofs like an inner courtyard (mostly roofless), architectural form and materials different from current housing, but the nature of the well is still the same. : a clearing from… in the sky, to exploit light and ventilation.

You can watch the whole staircase system from the well.

Skylight is a technical architectural solution to get natural light and ventilation, the solution of microclimate environment; But in fact, the skylight becomes a special space, a highlight of the house. Normally, to exploit the maximum efficiency, the sky well is usually placed in the middle of the house. At that location, sky wells can be exploited to 3 sides (one side is usually adjacent to the boundary wall), for bedroom spaces, toilets, stairs, corridors … or other functional rooms. That central location makes the skylight absorb the vision, make visual impression and easy to invest and care for the beautiful sky, making even the adjacent large space such as the common living room, kitchen … also beautiful. than. Of course, there are also houses with more than one well, and not all houses with a sky well are in the middle of the house.

Skylights are a fairly familiar part of a townhouse today. Sky wells have become necessary, indispensable in the condition of “crowded land”, crowded together in urban areas, and clear conditions of land for house construction are very difficult. There are no similar skylights. Each house is different, each owner has a preference, each architect has an idea … However, there are still common common points to note in order for the “highlight” in the house to be useful in the function. and optimize, as well as overcome disadvantages:

– Sky well is a tube, so the sound transmitted in the well is very clear and resonant. People sitting downstairs talking, people upstairs can hear; lose privacy or annoy each other. So the wall areas in the skylight should not be all smooth and smooth. Need some rough, lumpy patches for sound absorption; such as using hemp paint, cladding natural stone, brick cards, building ceiling tiles …

– If the sky well has no roof, the well bottom must organize the drainage well, and the bottom of the well must be large enough as well as the surrounding area must have a barrier system (walls, walls, doors) for rainwater to fall. Sky well bottom floor does not shoot into the clean living spaces

– With roofed skylights, it is important to note the main wind direction of the area to have a reasonable roof solution, in case when it rains, there is strong wind, it will pour rain through the crevices and openings of the roof to the roof.

– Decorative lights, hanging plants (if any) on the walls of the skylight well must be within reach or have a safety solution to control, avoid difficulties in need of maintenance and repair of lamps – electricity. , take care of bonsai.

– If under the skylight is not a fixed area such as an aquarium, ornamental garden, but a place of passage, or living space; do not hang pots, lamps, or other large – heavy decorations above it can be dangerous.

– The windows, corridors and stairs adjacent to the skylight must have handrails, iron flowers, ensuring safety standards. (height, gap distance)

– In some areas, the summer sun is very hot, especially at noon, the sun shines directly into the wells, which can cause excess light, glare, damage – damage to wooden floors, furniture; It is possible to install a ceiling curtain system under the skylight roof to block the sun and regulate light.