Edited by: Eugenia Gotti – eugenia.gotti@positive-magazine.com –
Architecture: Stacking Green
Architects: Vo Trong Nghia, Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa (Vo Trong Nghia Co., ltd.)
Where: Saigon, Vietnam
Photo by: Hiroyuki Oki
Translation assistant: Bianca Baroni
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Over 70,000 people voted for ArchDaily, one of the most followed architectural magazine, that presents the winners of the ArchDaily Building of the Year Awards.
For the category Houses the winner is Stacking Green, a project by Vo Trong Nghia, Daisuke Sanuki, Shunri Nishizawa.
Built for a couple and one of their mothers, the building is 20m deep but just 4m wide, typical of the narrow but long ‘tube houses’ common in Vietnam. It’s essentially one giant vertical garden, where the top light streams through the huge gap, and the side walls give protection from harsh elements that are so privy to the landscape.
The house structure is a RC frame structure widely used in Vietnam. The partition walls are very few in order to keep an interior fluency and the view of green façades from every point of the house.
They are watered using an integrated irrigation system. In a hot, tropical climate such as Saigon, the house takes full advantage of the traditional Saigonese bioclimactic courtyard house design— Stacking Green allows cross breezes to flow at will and the plants provide shade, both measures which dramatically reduce energy use. Further, the plants clean the air, reducing air borned pollutants in the home.
