Located at the foot of Ba Den Mountain in Tay Ninh, south-east Vietnam, SILAA’s rural café occupies a 70,000-square-metre agricultural plot bordered by rubber trees and rice paddies. As the
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In Hanoi, Vietnam, a former industrial printing plant once sat at the center of the city’s 20th-century media infrastructure. For decades, its presses produced newspapers, books, and documents that shaped
Earthenware House is a renovation project of a narrow tube house located in Lái Thiêu—a region known for its Southern Vietnamese ceramic craft tradition dating back to the 18th century. The homeowner, a building contractor and craftsman, wanted to retain the original structure while integrating nature, light, and artisanal textures to nurture daily creative inspiration.We approached the design as if shaping a piece of fired clay. The house is formed by three interconnected volumes, reminiscent of three clay pots embracing one another, solid yet earthy, raw yet harmonious. A rooftop terrace was added to accommodate informal gatherings under the open sky, echoing the communal lifestyle of the region. Greenery was introduced in a way that makes the house feel as though it has grown from the soil itself.To express the tactile essence of terracotta, we selected materials such as ceramic bricks, reclaimed wood, raw steel, and developed a new wall finish made from local clay mixed with cement and additives – evoking the feel of fired earth while adapting to the local climate. Interior details were handcrafted by the owner – from ceramic handles to recycled-material furniture – making the home a deeply personal dialogue between past and present, nature and people, culture and sustainable architecture.
On the outskirts of Huế, central city of Vietnam, this architecture positions itself away from the city’s postcard destinations and toward something more enduring: the cadence of local life. Set
In Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam, where new development constantly rewrites the street, Ts Veil takes a quieter position. The project transforms a three storey, 300 square metre villa through
In October 2025, Vietnamese artist Tia Thuy Nguyen presents Unity, a large scale public artwork situated in a central urban park in Hanoi. Conceived as an immersive spatial environment rather
Conceived as a compact 70 square metre pavilion, this space brings together two cultural lineages through the shared material language of fired earth. Dedicated to the display of ancient Vietnamese
Along the banks of the Cai River in Nha Trang, life once moved to the rhythm of the floods. Each year, the river rose for a few days, and small
The conversation happened during the period that Tropical Space Architecture was in the process of designing a manufactory next to a ceramic warehouse which was once the creative studio of
This is a contemporary residence located on a two-thousand-square-meter suburban site, designed to bring residents closer to nature while supporting the needs of modern living. Inspired by the “old man
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