Residential Buildings Where Owners Can Live Without Air Conditioning Even on the Hottest Days

The buffer zone is no longer a stranger to self-made houses from the past. When air conditioners and fans were not available, people over many generations have learned from experience to be able to adapt to the hot and humid tropical climate in Vietnam when building their houses. Cool wind direction, using deep verandas, lattices, thick walls, planting a large tree to create shade, water surface, all these are factors that create a buffer space, to bring a lot Neither inside nor outside, the porch can be considered one of the most human and most architectural spaces in folk houses, especially in the northern of Vietnam. It's a kind of spatial ambiguity, as the intersection between wet-slash-hot and dry-slash-shade is a multi-purpose space for built by a daughter, a famous fashion designer, for her mother and her hometown in the northern midlands of Vietnam, Thang Nguyen province, is a residential structure formed by the combination and arrangement of usable space and porches-slash-buffers-slash-or ambiguous spaces with as well as a functional division between the public area, coffee shop, outside and the private area, house, inside. The entire function of living space is encapsulated in a volume of 1,008 cubic meters behind that concrete wall, protected and sheltered by a sloped roof system with a lowered roof ridge with different elevations depending on the sun direction and wind direction of that block. D.H.Y. house has almost four opening sides because of the setback with the edge. Combined with the main living areas being deeply reclined and covered by the sloping system, the courtyards with shade trees, the entire living space of D.H.Y. house can be opened and combined with ceiling fans and natural ventilation, the owner can live without A.C. on the hottest day.