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Some Descriptions In Detail
MỘT SỐ TRÌNH BÀY CHI TIẾT

(The addition written by N Quang Dau, Project Architect for Vo Trong Nghia Architects, now founder of MODS)

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Nowadays, living standard of people in Kon Tum have changed very much. Besides old images of living can be usually seen, due to the influence of the age-long traditional life of ethnic group here with forests and mountains, residents tend to enjoy modern activities. They still need to gather and talk as their old habit. Architectures, even less or more, have changed. The architects have been requested for a design task as such. The project site is in one of the most beautiful places of Kon Tum. It seems to be the brightest urban area of the city, where citizens want to come to meet and talk together. It is not only approaching here conveniently from residential areas but from here, people are not so hard to visit other lands. However, the best advantage that should be mentioned which is the charming nature of which people can get wonderful views overlooking the river right in front or turn their eyes towards the distant mountains.

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Entrances of the building - the foyers, were intentionally designed to be open, continuously, seem to be an integrated veranda surrounds the 1st floor biggest hall. This placement is to serve the circulation of many people; is not only a must-do of design which is the essential need of a public building, following the design rules, but also an appropriate solution in this specific circumstance which is the need of gathering of residents, as said in the previous paragraph. Furthermore, it really helps the open café next to, like the second open beverage area of the complex, absolutely possible in the combination. Regarding the solution in the tropical condition, the first description is about architecture design, in which the proposal of double-skin facades is what the architects brought out to respond: beside the beauty of the large surfaces which combined by many oversized light-red stone slabs as said, this first skin - the louvers, prevent the direct sunlight to internal spaces as well as reduce the heat when the double-layer create a void between. Along with architecture, another collaborative point that is often together with it in a building like a compatible couple and this is specially helpful for a tropical building, of course if the owners have enough area - is the landscape. For the task of landscape of this project, the architects have planned a shallow artificial pond surrounds main elevations of the building, together with many trees were planted encompassing the site and in the round pots on the pond. Consequently, besides greenery - a factor of which the presence of trees probably always eases our mind, as if to prove its an unarguable traditional role; the water pond really dedicates to whole space, as the winds across the water surface, bring together the steam vaporizing and become cooler before visiting deeper spaces.