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架构师提供的文本描述。令人窒息的局面

Text description provided by the architects. A “suffocating” situation

距离河内市中心仅15公里远的东安郊区，见证了普遍的城市化-这是建设面积和数量最大化的趋势的主要原因之一。人们不太重视二手空间的质量和周围的风景。这导致了大量的“窒息”建筑物，这些建筑物经常出现在新规划的、闷热的城市地区，其特点是在越南为建造排屋划分了土地地块。

Just 15 kilometers far from the center of Hanoi, the suburban district Dong Anh has witnessed pervasive urbanization - one of the major causes for a trend towards a maximum use of volume and quantity of construction areas. Lesser importance has been attached to the quality of used space and surrounding scenery. This has resulted in a large number of “suffocating” buildings as often found in newly planned, stuffy urban areas characterized with land plot subdivision for building row houses in Vietnam. 

“适当呼吸”的解决办法

A “properly breathing” solution 

在生活和工作空间中，“适当呼吸”的房子通过在季风热带条件下创造自然呼吸节奏来解决改善旧空间质量的问题。内部和外部两种内置功能：内部提供许多空隙，而外部有双层外观，内层作为全玻璃面板；中间为移动通道；外层为再生陶瓷砖(40厘米×40厘米)。盆栽也被随机安排，以吸收湿度和减轻热量辐射。(鼓掌)

Featured in both living and working space, a “properly breathing” house serves as a solution to the quality improvement of used space by creating a natural sense of breathing rhythm in monsoon tropical conditions, which is attributed to the two built-in functions: The Inside and outside.  The inside offers many voids while the outside has double-skin facade including the inner layer as all-glass panels; the between as corridor for movement; the outer layer as recycled ceramic bricks (40cmx40cm). Pot plants are also randomly arranged to absorb the humidity and mitigate calorific radiation.  

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陶瓷砖与内层双层一起，净化灰尘和烟雾，吸入新鲜空气，通过与正面盆栽植物交替的开口面板带走热量。该过滤器通过平衡人类和自然的呼吸来帮助恢复建筑空间，并促进内外景观的连接和互动，上面和盆栽植物和蔬菜的屋顶，阳光和阴凉处……。

Together with the inner duplex, the layer of ceramic bricks is to purify dust and smoke, suck in fresh air and take heat away through open panels alternated with pot plants on the facade. This filter helps revitalize the architectural space by balancing the breathing of human and nature, and promoting the connection and interaction between the inner and outer scenery, roofs with creepers above and pot plants and vegetables below, sunlight and shade,…      

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由于呼吸空间只被认为是一种存在，因此，需要一个适当的呼吸空间，这样它才能在自然和社会文化的特定环境中为健康的生活进行适当的呼吸。从这个意义上说，适当的呼吸之家预计将有助于突出当前全球背景下的地方架构。

As a breathing space is only considered an existence; therefore, a properly breathing space is required so that it can breathe properly towards a healthy life in both natural and socio-cultural habitat particular to each region. In this sense, the properly breathing house is expected to contribute to highlighting the local architecture in a current global context.

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阮天成(Nguyen Tien Thanh)

Architects H&P Architects

Location Đông Anh, Hanoi, Vietnam

Category Apartments

Architects in Charge Doan Thanh Ha, Tran Ngoc Phuong

Project Year 2015

Photographs Nguyen Tien Thanh