Vietnamese houses win prizes at Architecture MasterPrize competition

The Ho Chi Minh City house, known as Villa Tan Dinh, was designed by MIA Design Studio to cover an area of nearly 300 squrare metres in District 3. It appears like a miniature park and features a lake and green trees. The project took four years to complete.

As opposed to simply arranging a few small patches of green trees at the entrance or steps like in many other townhouses, architects were keen to create a large garden, meaning that they were able to come up with the idea of ​​​​giving homeowners the feeling of walking on bridges.

All indoor activities are linked together through various spaces of green trees, water surfaces, and natural light.

Meanwhile, the house in Hoi An is the work of lequang-architects. It not only accommodates four people, but also serves as a shelter for birds, spiders, and insects thanks to its green garden.

It can also be used as a small community centre for the host, an environmental activist, to meet with neighbours.

Along with the two projects, Vietnamese architecture works also bagged high prizes in several other categories in the competition.

The AMP is an international architecture award initiated by Farmani Group in Los Angeles, the United States. It is within the system of international awards for design, architecture, and photography.

2021 marks the sixth year that the AMP has been held, attracting thousands of entries from 65 countries and territories worldwide.

Entries were divided into a total of 41 categories and were evaluated by a jury panel of more than 70 experts in the fields of architecture, design, and photography.