The overall structure is made up of and enclosed by two layers of brick wall meeting at an intersection, with alternate ‘green’ arrangements of plants and vegetables. The two layers function as a filter to eliminate the adverse aspects of the environment and bring nature to where necessary inside.
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In and out: The combination of “close” and “open” creates diverse relations with the surroundings.
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The outer wall is tilted inward at different diagonals to create better views of the landscape. This, at the same time, helps users in various corners inside the house feel the slow of time and weather through shadow and air.
The Brick Cave encompasses a chain of spaces interconnected with one another with random apertures gradually shifting from openness to privacy and vice versa. The combination of “close” and “open” creates diverse relations with the surroundings.
The building reminds peoples of both strangeness and familiarity by offering them images of corners of a yard, expanses of the sky, strips of garden, and parts of an alley. H&P Architects was established in June 2009 by Doan Thanh Ha and Tran Ngoc Phuong.
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| Interspersed: The overall structure is made up of two layers of bricks meeting at an intersection, with alternate ‘green’ arrangements of plants and vegetables. |
The firm designs offices, residential property, hotels, resorts and hospitals, as well as urban, industrial, educational and infrastructure projects.
The company has won various prizes at the Architizer A+ Awards 2017, ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2017 and American Architecture Prize Awards 2017. — VNS