The house is located in Nha Trang, a city in central Vietnam surrounded by the beautiful ocean and mountains. The client wanted a large house with a large garden. Answering to this request, a single roof is designed as a hanging garden to plant numerous trees and plants on it. The local building code, however, requires almost 50% of the roof area to be covered by gray or orange-color tilings and to be sloped. To obey this rule but maximize the green area atop, the roof is divided into parallel bands of greened roofs and  tiled roofs in an alternating sequence.

© Hiroyuki Oki

Architects: Vo Trong Nghia Architects, ICADA

Location: NHA Trang, Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam
Principal Architects : Vo Trong Nghia, Masaaki Iwamoto

Area: 276.77 sqm

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki

Site Area: 492.00 sqm

Foot Print: 235.2 sqm

© Hiroyuki Oki

From the architect. The house is located in Nha Trang, a city in central Vietnam surrounded by the beautiful ocean and mountains. The client wanted a large house with a large garden. Answering to this request, a single roof is designed as a hanging garden to plant numerous trees and plants on it. The local building code, however, requires almost 50% of the roof area to be covered by gray or orange-color tilings and to be slope...