架构师提供的文本描述。这座房子是为三十岁的妇女和她的家人设计的，建在胡志明市4米宽21米深的地块上，这是越南城市地铁的典型建筑。客户的主要要求是实现充满自然光和绿色植物的明亮开阔的空间。

Text description provided by the architects. This house, designed for a thirty-years-old-women and her family, is built on the plot of 4m wide and 21m deep in Ho Chi Minh City, which is very typical for urban tube houses in Vietnam. The main request from the client is to realize the bright and open space filled with natural light and greenery.

 © Hiroyuki Oki

(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

管式住宅是越南最典型的住宅类型，它本身很难获得足够的自然光和通风，首先是因为两个长长的边界边墙没有开口，其次是因为越南人往往有很多固定的隔墙来分隔许多卧室。因此，这座房子的主要主题是探索在越南的一种新生活方式的可能性，在这个新的生活方式中，这种黑暗和潮湿的空间需要大大改善，变成一个明亮而开放的空间。

 Tube house, the most typical housing style in Vietnam, itself has a critical difficulty in getting enough natural light and ventilation firstly because there's no opening on the two long boundary sidewalls and secondly because Vietnamese people tend to have lots of fixed partition walls for separating many bedrooms. Therefore, the main theme of this house is to explore the possibility of a new lifestyle in Vietnam, in which that such dark and humid space need to be improved drastically into a bright and open one.

 © Hiroyuki Oki

(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

房屋设计采用4块实心厚板，无普通固定隔墙。每个板，在不同的高度，有几个空洞，引导自然反射光从顶部的光，正面和背面进入房子。此外，每块平板都设有几个水磨石浴盆洞和足部空间供坐，特别是15个不同种类热带植物的绿色植物洞，使空间具有吸引力和新鲜感。此外，通常熟悉的固定隔墙被替换为轻型、可移动和半透明的隔墙，用于分隔床位，根据生活方式的要求，调整每个单独空间的隐私与整个大空间的流畅性之间的平衡。这些隔板是折叠或滑动门，以编织的竹子为遮荫和jalousie窗户系统，这是很容易打开的自然风循环贯穿整个房屋空间。简而言之，所有的设计意图都是用绿色植物、明亮、通风的方式来实现管式住宅空间，然后将狭小、黑暗、潮湿的被动住宅改造成“连接到外部自然环境的空间”-让人们感受到真实的外部氛围。

The house is designed with 4 solid thick slabs and no normal fixed partition walls. Each slab, stuck in the different height, has several voids that lead natural reflection light from the top-light, façade and backside into the house.  In addition, each slab is set out with several holes of terrazzo bath-tub and foot-space for sitting, especially the 15 holes for greenery with different kinds of tropical plants to enable the space attractive and fresh. Furthermore normal familiar fixed partition walls are replaced into light, movable and translucent partitions for separating bed spaces, adjusting balance between the privacy for each individual space and the fluency of whole big space according to the lifestyle's request. These partitions are the folding or sliding doors with woven bamboo as a shade and jalousie windows system which are easily opened for the natural wind circulation to go through the whole house spaces. Briefly, all of design intents are to fulfill the tube house spaces with greenery, brightness, well-ventilations then transform the narrow, dark, humid passive residential housing into "the space connecting to the outside natural environment” – where the people can feel real outside atmosphere.

 © Hiroyuki Oki

(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

房屋结构是一种具有倒转梁体系的钢筋混凝土框架结构。此外，采用编织竹片作为混凝土框架，在暴露的混凝土天花板上雕刻竹纹，既强调连续板和自然照明效果，又与实心编织竹门系统一起创造了更强的美学效果。所有这些材料和技术在这所房子的设计是当地的，并广泛地在越南。

The house structure is a RC frame structure with reversal beams system. Besides, using the woven bamboo sheet as concrete work's frames for engraving the bamboo pattern on the exposed concrete ceiling,not only emphasizes the continuous slab and natural lighting effect, but also creates stronger aesthetic effect together with real woven bamboo of doors system. All these materials and techniques adopted into this house design are local and widely common in Vietnam.

 © Hiroyuki Oki

(C)小平之(Hirouki Oki)

我们可以感受到自然风，在这个有“与外界自然环境相连的生活方式”的房子里，我们可以舒适地生活在没有空调的环境中。在某种程度上，这一可持续的生态建议被认为是对越南传统生活方式的重新定义，这种生活方式与当代住房中的外部环境联系在一起。我们真心希望这种简单、明亮、开放的生活方式能成为越南现代生活方式中的一种有效选择。

We can feel the natural wind and live without air conditioner comfortably in this house that has the “lifestyle connecting to the outside natural environment”. Somehow, this sustainable and ecological proposal is considered as a re-definition of the Vietnamese traditional lifestyle connecting to the outside environment in the contemporary housing. We really hope this simple, bright and open lifestyle can be one of the effective alternatives in the modern lifestyle in Vietnam.

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