The Brick Cave Forms a Contemporary Brick Shell Around a Series of Nested Rooms
Intelligently conceived and constructed, the Brick Cave forms a contemporary brick shell around a series of nested rooms, ofering residents beautifully lit interstitial spaces for dwelling. Its humble and yet unique lacy brickwork blends beautifully with the neighbourhood. As a stunning figure in the urban fabric, it resolves an irregular corner site with an active organisational strategy, creating a feeling of domestic sanctuary in the suburbs of Hanoi.
The Brick Cave house is located in a suburban commune of Hanoi which has undergone a rapid process of urbanisation. It is designed in a philosophy that it will help shape a place, similar to the natural environment. The proposed structure of the house resembles that of a cave. The overall structure is made up of and enclosed by two layers of brick wall meeting one another at an intersection, with alternate ‘green’ arrangements of plants and vegetables.
Bricks have long been a familiar local material and widely used in rural areas of Vietnam with a simple manual construction method. The two built-in layers of wall functions as a filter to eliminate the adverse aspects of the external environment (sunshine from the west, dust, and noise),and bring nature (light,rain, wind) to where necessary inside.
The top of the outer wall is tilted inward at diferent angles in order to create better viewing angles for the general landscape of the area. This helps users in various parts of the house continually sense the movement to time and weather. Spatially, the house encompassess a chain of spaces that are interconnected to one another, with random apertures gradually shifting from openness to closeness, and vice versa.
The combination of ‘close’ and ‘open’ creates diverse relations with the surroundings, and thus helps blur the boundaries between in and out, houses and streets, humans and nature. The Brick Cave provides its occupants both strangeness and familiarity, ofering fleeting images of a corner of a yard, expanses of the sky, strips of a garden, and parts of an alley, providing an interesting and enjoyable experience within a space that is harmonised with the comfort of a safe shelter.
Project Information
Project Name: the Brick Cave
Location: Vietnam
Architect: Doan Thanh Ha
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