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CITY OASIS by K.A Studio

Architecture

2020

Photographer : Hiroyuki Oki

CITY OASIS is a serviced apartment redesigned and rebuilt from an old building with 27 rooms varying in size (24 – 45 m2). The building is located on a 330 – meter – square site, in the center of Ho Chi Minh City. Sai Gon is a large urban area of Viet Nam with high density of population, transportation and construction, which leads to many problems, nowadays, unsolved such as pollution, traffic jam, lack of green space, etc.

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Architects	:	K.A Studio
Area	:	330 m2
Year	:	2020

Living in the crowded city with the high average temperature all year round, people find it hard to figure out somewhere nearby to enjoy their short – term days off or vacations away from the heat and fast life pace of urban area. With the urge to create a green space with shades in order to help people enjoy their staycation without leaving the city, we decide to connect people with the nature through our design.

When we headed out to the site to have our observation and assessment, here’s the thing: Spaces and levels handled unsuitably, stuffy rooms, heavy and unnecessary balcony columns, instead of expanding the area of construction, we tried to keep the a large void on the site, respect and conserve most of the current plants

The solutions we offer for this are retaining the structural columns and beams, removing all the redundant ones and making room for daylight and plants, applying ventilation for the spaces – corridor included and finally proposing large curtain walls in order to make the boundary between inside and outside fade away, creating different gardens for each room.

From the entrance, we design a short curved path leading inside, making it look like an interesting walk among diverse types of plants, water and light before people come to the lobby and move into their own rooms.