House in District 9
Area : 262sqm
Location : District 9, Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam
Project recent phase :  un-built, Detail Design phase
Photo : ©324Praxis office

Concept description
This project could be considered as another attempt to find a contemporary living manner in row house typology. Through the composition of cubes -as the private rooms- and the spaces created under these shifting cubes -as public areas; together with staircase, the circulation as a silk ribbon is consequently created to connect all spaces, then provide a non-stop adventure to discover dif ferent places through out the house.
Detail condition: The usual way of living in common row house: staircase in the center along with the corridor to access rooms covered by four walls which isolate each member inside his own world. The perceived quality of life in buildings would also come from the geometry. Compositions of geometry increase the privacy for private spaces, at the same time, increase the opened atmosphere, connect indoor-outdoor for more greenery and natural air-ventilation.

Potential architectural elements
[concluded from progress of design-study and prasix]

ROW HOUSE TYPOLOGY
In almost developing countries, to response to rapid increasing population and housing need, urban planning provides numbers of housing typology with narrow front elevation and deep – which named Row house. At the same time, miss-understanding on definition about “modern life style” or “comfort/ convenience” spreads and gradually changes the people's desire on not only a real value living experience, but also human custom communication. In some aspects, this gives many restricts for living spaces. Through architectural walls-arrangement of recent typical row-house-layout, each individual’s world is isolated physically and psychologically. By breaking these boundaries and adding new conditions, living environment would be much more rich.

AESTHETICS VALUE IN CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE 
In architecture history, decorative details themselves participated as independent position as architecture position, aesthetics value of these elements strongly connect with religion, spiritualism, belief, culture and other arts – as a such luxury value from god that far from civilian. Decorative details in contemporary architecture have tendency to be simplified, selective, stylized… to be more familiar with daily living, specially to support as an architectural element, to play a role in enriching spaces and experiences, to become one of language that clarify architecture’s characters.