Dream House

Located in Can Tho city, nearby the tranquil Mekong river, Space+ completed a villa with the modern style, adapted to Lotus Home Standard for Green Building (certified by Vietnam Green Building Council), respecting the environment and participating in contributes to the development of sustainable architecture in Vietnam.

Space+ designed this villa with the aim to maximize the open space to gain the harmony with nature and enhance the bio-climatic comfort and the healthy, guarantying a sustainable architecture. The effort of prioritizing for green space, water surface, rainwater-absorbing surface, green roof are the main requests for this project. The house is divided clearly in calm and activity areas; each has been designed with open spaces, breeze block walls, appropriate layout of doors and windows in order to gain the convectional air flow and bring the natural cool air to inside the house.

The project has used eco-friendly materials as unbaked brick for wall partition, weather steel for fence and double-skin facade. Natural wood from the certified sustainable sources is used for floor and furniture. The combined use applied from natural ventilation and lighting, green roof, double skin façade, low-E glasses, has allowed the house to maintain the effective and economic purpose of artificial power’s use.

The living room, dining room and kitchen are luxuriously designed. Each bedroom has an elegant modern design expressing the personality of the user. While the spiral staircase is an artistic highlight for the heart of the building. With full of light source from the tropical sun, Space+ has brought the natural light system solution inside all rooms: indoor garden, skylight, larger windows, in order to use mostly natural light for daytime and members of family could easily see each other and enjoy the beauty of garden surrounding.

The garden has been created by local trees: mango, palm, bougainvillea, plumeria accompanied by an ecological fishpond with aquatic plants as lotus, water lily to help absorb rainwater. In the future, the owner can use the filter system to reuse rainwater into a source of pure drinking water.

The master bedroom is in a quiet area but still has all the best views of the garden around the house. Other bedrooms are on the first floor, around a small and calm garden. Top floor is for relaxing with sauna facilities at the midst of nature. By using breeze blocks, the privacy has secured, and the natural ventilation is gained.