Excerpt: The Cuckoo House by Tropical Space is a residence with a coffee shop, featuring an architectural shape reminiscent of the Cuckoo Clock. Built from local clay brick, the house includes three blocks that are connected by buffer layers. The design uses detachable walls to define the space and provide buffer space, allowing for flexible indoor/outdoor connections and promoting private and open family activities.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] The Cuckoo House is a house for 4 people (parents and 2 kids) combined with a coffee shop located in Da Nang, Vietnam and designed by Tropical Space in 2018. The project is built by the local clay brick which brings a familiar feeling to the user and has the architectural shape reminiscent of the Cuckoo Clock.
The Cuckoo house includes three blocks which are connected by the buffer layers. These blocks are placed on another rectangular block which functions as a base. This base block is the coffee shop with the garden as outdoor area and the indoor space.
Three blocks above are separated functional spaces of the house and linked by the buffer layers which are not fully covered. Block A is the master bedroom including two floors. The upper floor is the bedroom and the other one is the bathroom and walk-in closet. Block B also has two floors. The upper floor is the kids’ bedroom and the bellow is the living room. Block C accommodates the kitchen and dining table. Like a habit, most of people’ daily activities usually take place in functional spaces.
Tropical Space detaches walls which are used to define the place and offer the buffer space to urge people to leave their rooms and join together. These buffer layers can be used flexibly, connecting the indoor and the outdoor of the house which could make the family activities both private and open. Meanwhile, it allows the breeze to go through all corners of the house and make it chill in the tropical summer.
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