"For many, understanding a city's urban fabric and what makes it tick also means discovering the smaller-scale, locally appreciated, conserved buildings and popular gathering spaces. This is especially true when considering bustling Vietnamese cities, with their peculiar architectural characteristics, which can only be appreciated when learning about their many inspirations and historic layers, combining traditional Vietnamese motifs, modernism, local materiality, and climatic design solutions,"
"The main design intention of T3 Team was to recover the existing modernist Villa from the 50s and give it a second life dedicated to the Cocoa & Pastry. A place for Vietnamese to reconnect with their heritage and to realize the quality of their cocoa produced in the Mekong Delta. This elegant villa was totally invisible when we started the design, as decades of ugly industrial finishing materials were covering all walls, ceilings, and facades."
Understanding a city's architectural heritage requires looking beyond designated sites and iconic buildings to smaller-scale conserved structures and popular gathering spaces. Vietnamese cities display layered influences—traditional motifs, modernism, local materials, and climate-responsive design—expressed through narrow tube houses and low-rise buildings. Architects revive rundown or abandoned buildings through restoration and adaptive reuse, frequently converting them into coffee shops that reactivate community use and reveal historic value. Projects range in intervention from careful conservation to contemporary insertions, recovering obscured modernist villas and highlighting material authenticity while maintaining conservation value in dense urban cores.
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