The rapid urbanization in several Asian cities has dramatically reduced the living area per person. Especially in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, most people, sometimes extended families, spend their lives in narrow and long tube houses where they live apart from nature and in dark and unventilated spaces.Long tube houses for extended families have always been a complicated question for generations of Vietnamese architects.

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Architects: Cong Sinh Architects

Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh 70000, Vietnam

Architect In Charge: Vo Quang Thi

Design Team: Vo Quang Thi, Nguyen Thi Nha Van, Phung Kim Phuoc

Project Year: 2015

Photographs: Quang Tran
Model Photographs : Hiroyuki Oki

Project Manager: Vo Quang Thi

Contractor: Thanh An Interiors And Construction

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The rapid urbanization in several Asian cities has dramatically reduced the living area per person. Especially in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, most people, sometimes extended families, spend their lives in narrow and long tube houses where they live apart from nature and in dark and unventilated spaces.
Long tube houses for extended families have always been a complicated question for generations of Vietnamese architects.

© Quang Tran

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