Nishizawa Architects create multiple family homes with moveable walls in Vietnam

Nishizawa Architects create multiple family homes with moveable walls in Vietnam
Nishizawa Architects have made moveable walls that can help to create internal walls of a house appear as melting and ambiguous space, allowing the inhabitants to move freely from room to room and enjoy natural air and view around. The façades and interiors of the houses of three families in An Giang province, southern Vietnam were replaced with moveable corrugated metal panels as a pilot project to create a half outdoors and dwelling so that they can share their spaces and could improve living alongside each other as well as permit open views of surrounding rice fields, according to Dezeen. Practice founder Shunri Nishizawa told Dezeen that the ambition of this project was to integrate family lifestyles and connections which is fulfilled by sunlight, greenery and natural ventilation. A self-contained apartment occupies the lower floor, while a duplex is set across a portion of the first and second level, where there is also a studio. The frame of the house is configured by a network of timber beams that are left exposed. The roof has been inverted so that it forms a butterfly-like structure when the metal panels are pushed open. By using local materials, the practice built the columns of the house from a Vietnamese hardwood called Shorea Obtusa, and sourced the timber for the flooring from a second-hand market nearby. The outer walls have been made from concrete and then embossed with the pattern of woven bamboo to emulate regional craft techniques. "It was an important theme for us to preserve the regional customs and spirits inside the house," said Nishizawa.
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