The most common house design a century ago, villas are popular renovation subjects today. Completed in 2014, Vietnamese studio MM++ Architects stripped a house back to its concrete frame to create this pared-back open-plan villa featuring red brick walls, pivoting glass doors and leafy gardens. The villa has been turned into contemporary open spaces while keeping the entire existing concrete structure. The original dwelling was built in a faux-Art Deco style that the investor client wanted to strip away and replace with a more contemporary and open-plan home. In this project, all the efforts have been focusing on creating a sense of the place with the use of recycled bricks, exposed concrete and steel frame windows. The building has been reduced to its concrete frame and reshaped with a new foot print and a new staircase position. On the ground floor, living room, dining and kitchen are merged in one unique space fully open to the outdoor on three sides same our previous project, but this time with customized steel frame windows on pivot bringing a “retro-vintage” feeling to the design as well as the industrial look black steel staircase. [photographs by Hiroyuki OKI]
