Rivaparc Apartment Renovation

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki

RIVAPARC APARTMENT RENOVATION

Nhabe Scholae

ARCHITECTS
Nhabe Scholae

LEAD ARCHITECT
Nguyen Anh Cuong

MANUFACTURERS
Autodesk, Dulux, Hippicdesign, Hippicdesign, Local Brand, Rainbow, Sofacompany, Sofacompany, Tan My A, Tan My A, Trimble

PHOTOGRAPHS
Hyroyuki Oki

AREA
75 m²

YEAR
2018

LOCATION
Vietnam

CATEGORY
Renovation, Apartment Interiors

"Poetically man dwells.." The project renovates a 75 m2 apartment situated by Kenh Te Canal, Ho Chi Minh City.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki
Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki

The agenda was simple: to build a co-living studio for the owner whose majority of possessions consisted of plants and books.

Naturally, the idea is to make a unique open-space plan filled with southern light.

Our interest was in the creation of a landscape-like interior, a topography for objects (house plants, furniture, books, carpets…) floating over a luminous, neutral grey epoxy floor.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki
Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki

On this neutral platform, the very zero degrees of architecture, the owner’s body and belongings became alike entities, equally important.

The traditional anthropocentric design is replaced by a multi-centered field.

This ex-centered view consists of the owner’s daily negotiations in terms of space and territory with things around him-living plants and furniture.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki
Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki

His relationship to this apartment-a space of intimacy where his self extends to and becomes the objects around him-constitutes an unconventional way of defining home: a home is where one strives not to be the master of his environment but to nurture a contemplative relationship, to be part, to be between things.

Because the design allows for no space to hide the interior objects, to some extent, this transparency assigns the objects the status of an installation display. The content of this displaying landscape then becomes an externalization of self and of memories.

Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki
Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki
Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
© Hyroyuki Oki


Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
Axonometric View 1
Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
Axonometric View 2


Rivaparc Apartment Renovation
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