架构师提供的文本描述。该项目是对位于胡志明市东郊2区的一座别墅的改造。其目的是将现有的建筑，一个“假冒”的艺术装饰，变成一个当代别墅，干净的线条和开放的空间，同时保持整个现有的混凝土结构。节省成本，约占工程总成本的30%，而且在施工进度上节省了时间，这对作为投资者的客户来说是一个巨大的好处。因此，通过平衡成本，可以为建筑增加新的元素。

Text description provided by the architects. This project is a renovation of a villa located in east suburb of Ho Chi Minh City, District 2. The intention was to turn the existing construction, a “pastiche” art deco, into a contemporary villa with clean lines and open spaces while keeping the entire existing concrete structure. The cost saving, which represents around 30% of total construction cost and the time saving on the construction schedule was a huge benefit for the client, an investor. Therefore, with balancing the cost, it was possible to add new elements to the construction.

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这座建筑已经缩小到了他最简约的表情，一种白色的立方体形状，在房子的前部和后部加上两堵垂直的植物墙，以给卧室带来隐私，并允许自然通风的大开口，不需要交叉视野。垂直花园将周围的植被“延伸”到墙壁上，使房子“消失”在景观中。它创造了一个强烈的视觉联系，房子和花园，并给予了一个地方的身份。

The building has been reduced to his most minimal expression, a white cubic shape with two vertical vegetal walls added on the front and back of the house in order to bring privacy for the bedrooms and allowing large openings for natural ventilation without crossing views. The vertical garden “extends” the surrounding vegetation onto the walls and makes the house “disappearing” into the landscape. It creates a strong visual connection between the house and the garden and gives an identity to the place.

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c.Hiroyuki OKI

在底层，客厅、餐厅和厨房合并成一个独特的空间，三面对室外完全开放，将花园带入屋内。游泳池和甲板已经被改造成室内空间的延伸。楼梯已搬迁，以便更好地分配一楼，并创造了起居室的主要特点与浮动台阶设计。在一楼，三间卧室，而不是现有的四间，以获得空间，创造一个真正的主套房。

On the ground floor, living room, dining and kitchen are merged in one unique space fully open to the outdoor on three sides, bringing the garden inside the house. Swimming pool and decking have been reshaped as an extension of the interior space. The staircase has been relocated for a better distribution of the first floor and creates the main feature of the living room with a floating steps design. On the first floor, three bedrooms instead of the four existing in order to gain space to create a real master suite.

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这个项目从现有空间质量差、封闭、与花园没有联系的角度出发，是一个实验，目的是展示如何用现有的结构“玩耍”，并将建筑变成完全不同的布局和设计，展示更好的空间，增加地方的价值，并提出一种更接近自然的生活方式。

Starting from a poor existing space quality, enclosed, with no connection to the garden, this project is an experiment to demonstrate how it can be versatile and fun to “play” with an existing structure and to turn the construction into a radically different layout and design, revealing better spaces, adding value to the place and proposing a life style closer to nature.

 © Hiroyuki OKI

c.Hiroyuki OKI