{"id":921567,"date":"2026-10-05T13:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921567\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:58:16","slug":"nature-is-inseparable-from-daily-life-at-house-k-by-hgaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/921567\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature is “inseparable from daily life” at House K by HGAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blocky volumes in exposed concrete<\/a> contrast with the lush greenery and rooftop vegetable garden at House K, a home<\/a> in Vietnam<\/a> designed by local architecture studio HGAA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Located in Ngh\u1ec7 An, the 885-square-metre family home has a central courtyard and a series of stepped terraces, designed to provide residents with as much access to greenery as possible.<\/p>\n

\"CourtyardHGAA has arranged a concrete home in Vietnam around a central courtyard<\/p>\n

“The guiding idea was simplicity, sustainability, and harmony with nature and local lifestyle,” HGAA<\/a> told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“The integration of gardens at multiple scales \u2013 a central bamboo courtyard, rooftop vegetable garden, and private gardens for each bedroom \u2013 is the defining gesture,” it continued. “It transforms circulation into a sensory experience, making nature inseparable from daily life.”<\/p>\n

\"HouseIts concrete structure is left exposed across the interior and exterior<\/p>\n

A paved path set within House K’s front garden leads from a street entrance and parking space into a central patio and barbecue area, which is hugged by the home’s U-shaped concrete form.<\/p>\n

Exposed concrete defines both the exterior and interior of the home’s cubic volumes, a choice the studio attributed to its durability, fast construction speed and the contrast it creates with the green of the home’s tropical plants.<\/p>\n

\"DiningGlazing wraps around the home’s ground floor<\/p>\n

Tall bamboo shoots help shelter the glazed walls of the home’s ground floor, where a central hall and staircase are flanked by a large dining and kitchen space to the north and a double-height living area to the south.<\/p>\n

While responding to the client’s feng shui requirements, HGAA designed the layout to give the majority of House K’s spaces access to a garden, including the bedrooms and bathrooms tucked on the ground floor’s more enclosed eastern side.<\/p>\n

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The home’s first-floor bedrooms overlook the central courtyard and have access to a garden terrace raised above the home’s parking area, while on the second floor another bedroom sits alongside its own private roof terrace.<\/p>\n

Atop the building, a rooftop vegetable garden and further planting conceal the home’s technical and storage spaces, offering views across the site and over the street beyond.<\/p>\n

\"HouseThe first floor bedrooms have access to a garden terrace<\/p>\n

“The house was set back from the street to reduce heat exposure, with a large front garden and rooftop vegetable garden acting as natural buffers,” the studio said.<\/p>\n

“Traditional elements like wide eaves and surrounding gardens were reinterpreted to provide shade and cooling.”<\/p>\n

\"BedroomThe home gives its residents as much access to greenery as possible<\/p>\n

Previous projects by HGAA include a preschool in Ha Long City,<\/a> incorporating walkways surrounded by screens of metal mesh that were designed to be overgrown by climbing plants.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Vietnam, Inrestudio recently completed 100 Windows<\/a>, a multi-generational home surrounded by irregularly placed and mismatched openings.<\/p>\n

The photography is courtesy of HGAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blocky volumes in exposed concrete contrast with the lush greenery and rooftop vegetable garden at House K, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,11147,67777,356,75,317281,4050,1242,5801,241903],"class_list":["post-921567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-concrete","tag-concrete-houses","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-hgaa","tag-houses","tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnamese-houses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}