ENTRY DETAILS

  • Company Name A+ Architects
  • Entry Name EcoBreeze House
  • Category
    • Residential Architecture
      Silver Award (2025)
  • Clients Mr. Nguyễn Đắc Hưng
  • Lead Designer Arch. Vũ Hoàng Kha
  • Design Team Từ Phan Nguyên Trường, Kinga Tomalak, Nguyễn Long Ẩn, Nguyễn Trọng Huân, Lương Văn Tàu, Lê Quốc Kiệt, Trần Thị Ly Na
  • Completion Date January 30, 2023
  • Size 330 m²
  • Location Gò Vấp District, Hồ Chí Minh City, Việt Nam
  • Photo Credit Hiroyuki Oki
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SHORT DESCRIPTION

As rapidly expanding cities like Ho Chi Minh City face alarming levels of energy consumption and increasing disconnection from nature, a critical question emerges: Can architecture reintroduce “breathing spaces” into urban living -spaces that harmonize with climate rather than resist it? EcoBreeze House is not merely a building - it is an architectural response to the urgent questions of modern urbanism. Rather than placing technology at its core, the project “gives back” valuable space to nature. By changing the layout of a traditional Vietnamese house into a modern style - by separating the building, moving the porch inside, and adding layers for climate control - it helps with natural airflow, keeps the temperature comfortable, and uses less energy. Solar energy is discreetly integrated beneath an inverted pitched roof - a symbolic inversion of conventional design thinking. More than a solution, EcoBreeze House is a statement: in the face of the climate crisis, innovation does not always mean invention. Sometimes, it means returning to the quiet intelligence of vernacular wisdom. We believe that by revisiting and refining time-tested principles, we can shape a new generation of architecture - less dependent on energy, more attuned to the environment, and deeply connected to the rhythms of nature. EcoBreeze House is a small yet deliberate step toward a future-conscious architecture - an old solution for a new future.