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SONO Salon / Inrestudio

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:00:00 +0000

SONO is an interior design project for a hair salon located in a quiet area of Ho Chi Minh City. The name "SONO" means garden in Japanese, aligning with the design approach of evoking exterior space through minimal elements.

ROKUSHO Restaurant / Inrestudio

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 02:00:00 +0000

ROKUSHO is an izakaya located in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City. Situated on the ground floor of an office building, the existing space measured 22.5 meters in width and 7.3 meters in depth, lacking any distinctive features. To transform this anonymous space, several waist-high cast-in-place concrete masses were introduced. These elements form the core of the spatial composition, turning the once-flat into a unique environment. Even if the function of the space changes and it undergoes further renovations, these concrete masses will remain as part of its history, potentially serving as a starting point for future designs.

MORICO Café / Inrestudio

Hana Abdel — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:00:00 +0000

MORICO is a renovation project for a café and restaurant located in the center of Ho Chi Minh City. The existing building is an old brick row house, 5 meters wide and 37 meters deep, facing a major downtown street. Many surrounding shops have glass walls facing the road to maximize air-conditioned space, which disconnects them from the city. In tropical cities, as streets become more commercialized, the depth of the city is lost, and sidewalks tend to become mere passageways.

The Gamelle Laboratory / Inrestudio

Hana Abdel — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:00:00 +0000

The Gamelle is a small laboratory for product inspection in a factory in central Vietnam. Located by the sea at the edge of the site, the building aims to provide views of nature while protecting it from excessive exposure to the sea breeze. An outer wall encloses both functional rooms and exterior spaces, constituting a porous structure to mediate between the internal and external environment. The project has the ambiguity of the entity: eye-catching like a solid pavilion, and yet eye-penetrating to the scenery beyond with its transparency.

The Kaleidoscope Office and Residence / Inrestudio

Hana Abdel — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:00:00 +0000

The Kaleidoscope is a living and working building located at a factory site in central Vietnam. The surrounding region is known for its severe climate: a hot wind blows throughout the dry season and typhoons and floods during the rainy season. The building is placed between the hill and the sea and frames a series of diverse—kaleidoscopic—views in directions and times. The project aims at creating a protected space from the harsh tropical climate and enhancing the user's contact with nature through various architectural devices.

A "Double Skin System" Provides an Alternative Office Design for Tropical Urban Environments

Collin Abdallah — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 07:00:00 +0000

In response to the tropical climate of Vietnam, this proposed office building uses a "tropical double skin" to moderate heat gain while improving acoustic resistance from the noisy streets of Ho Chi Minh City. This design comes from Inrestudio and proposes the use of the "tropical double skin" as an "alternative office design for tropical urban environments." The facade consists of modules, each approximately 400 cubic millimeters, made up of six steel rings. The system of modules on the facade support planters filled with various plants and trees, casting kinetic shadows on the interior of the building.

The Proscenium / Inrestudio

Valentina Villa — Thu, 09 Mar 2017 21:00:00 +0000

The Proscenium is a small dessert restaurant located in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City. The project is the renovation of the ground floor of a former residential building that was built as part of a large block redevelopment completed in the 1990's. Dozens of row houses forming the block were build with similar decorative elements such as Greekish columns and moldings, reflecting the developer's intention for instant architectural potency. This kind of ephemeral dream is regarded as chimerical or is simply neglected nowadays, and indeed most of those original decorative elements have vanished through the recent years of overdevelopment in the central commercial district, during which time the next trend has already been discovered. This illustrates how an architectural style is written and rewritten during the frantic economic growth that major Vietnamese cities are currently undergoing. Our project began with a reflection on this rapid trend cycle and ended by reclaiming the abandoned design with a new design element slid into the building.