Excerpt: Louvers House by MIA Design Studio captures the essence of modern Vietnamese family life while seamlessly adapting to tropical climate conditions. At the heart of the residence is a central void, filled with native plants and cascading water, creating a serene, healing environment that embodies the home’s vibrant spirit. A striking feature of the house is its vertical louvers, which invite early sunlight and gentle morning breezes into the space.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] From MIA Design Studio’s perspective, Louvers house is not only a living shelter but also reflects the client’s living style. The client wanted to make a great combination of spaces to keep traditional communication between generations of a traditional Vietnamese family. That is how the architects simply started designing a house with a big void in the middle as a bridge to connect all the spirits of the house.
This void with water scape and skylight creates a natural connection between bedrooms, living room, Spa, Gym and even the parking area. This principle has an ingenious use of natural ventilation to keep the building cool and give the family a refreshing experience. With local plants and overflow water, the void inside this house becomes a healing environment as the living soul of the house.
This house faces the sunrise with the fact that daylight would be soft and straight in the early morning but would be so harsh and aggressive in the middle of the day. To solve this problem, the architects have created a big canopy to reduce the heat from harsh sunlight at the high angle and the vertical louvers to let the early sunlight get inside the house and freshen the morning breeze with shadows and morning sunlight. Pattern of shadows is one of the natural advantages that they want to imply into the design to accept the rule of nature and play with it.
Moreover, taking advantage of the park in front of this property and surrounding landscape, the architects raised the living floor to create better accessibility to the parking area and expanded the boundary to the landscape with a private view from the upper level. With this raised level, they designed a transition stairway to access the upper level with landscape and water flow for friendly welcome ambience and stress relieving from daily life. Designing a house with a private but open view has created a comfortable living area where the family can enjoy a luxurious wellness in privacy.
The design does not only reflect the culture of a modern Vietnamese family but also adapts the tropical weather to protect the subject from the disadvantages of the climatic weather. The studio’s philosophy is not only creating forms and spaces but also connecting human living style with nature.
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