V8 House: Layered Rooms and Gardens Shape Family Life
V8 House lands in Vinh, Vietnam, as a ground-up house by TNT Architecture that folds family life into a tight urban fabric. Designed in 2020 for three generations, the project uses layered rooms, gardens, and filters to choreograph privacy, daylight, and daily movement. The result is a calm interior world cued to climate and routine.
Morning enters low under a canopy, drawing the eye toward a garden held between brick and concrete. Footfall slows on timber, and the house opens in measured sequence.
This private house in Vinh is planned for a three-generation family on a 550 square meter (5,920 square foot) east–west plot. TNT Architecture builds the experience as a chain of thresholds and rooms, using transitional zones to set pace, secure privacy, and string together daily life.
Stage The Approach
A recessed entrance under a low canopy pulls shade toward the street. The route is quiet yet deliberate, guiding residents from a dense neighborhood into a cooler interior court with crafted floors, solid wooden doors, and planted edges. Details cue the senses, treating the entry as the first movement in a longer passage across the home.
Cross The Garden
A narrow timber bridge spans the central garden and gently divides it into two realms. One side shields bedrooms for privacy; the other keeps a flexible communal zone where family activity can expand or contract through the day. The slim crossing slows cadence, letting people pause, look into foliage, and read the house against layered greenery.
Thread The Veranda
Revived from tradition, the veranda works as meeting ground and threshold. It mediates between people and plants, rooms and weather, and introduces the core living sequence of living room, kitchen, and dining before slipping into a secondary garden. That inner court tempers the western sun, deepens privacy, and extends views so the ground level reads as one long, continuous interior–exterior run.
Lift The Upper Volume
Above, a cubic second floor rests on two boundary walls with a modern hollow-slab spanning long distances. This move clears the ground plane so the lower level feels like a united garden ringed by rooms. Exposed concrete and brick give weight and texture below, while the upper mass organizes sleeping and quiet zones with calm, rational order.
Tune Light Daily
Movable timber louvers line the east–west faces to trim glare and adjust privacy. Corridors, planting beds, and verandas are planned as active filters, sharpening airflow and daylight while keeping sightlines controlled. A layered roof with greenery expands use upward, doubling as a small garden and a solitary perch for reflection.
By day, movement traces from street to canopy, bridge to veranda, room to court. At dusk, louvers glow and the gardens hold the last heat, keeping family life easy and close. The house reads as sequence and pause—measured steps, clear edges, and rooms that breathe.
Photography by Trieu Chien
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