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Hang Tau Kindergarten and Primary School / 1+1>2 Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Located in the center of Hang Tau village (Quai To commune, Dien Bien Province, Vietnam), Hang Tau Kindergarten and Primary School sits 20 kilometers from the nearest town center. Perched midway along the Pha Din Pass, the village is home to the Mong ethnic community, where rugged mountain terrain and limited socio-economic conditions shape daily life.

Chieng Ban Kindergarten / 1+1>2 Architects

Miwa Negoro — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:00:00 +0000

Chieng Ban Kindergarten consists of two classrooms, two restrooms, a staff room, and a covered corridor that doubles as a play area. The school is enclosed by brick walls, accented with vibrant painted surfaces that create a visually dynamic yet child-friendly environment. The arrangement of square windows at varying sizes and heights not only introduces an engaging visual rhythm but also optimizes natural light and ventilation.

Pha Hún School / 1+1>2 Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Nestled quietly among the rugged mountains, Pha Hún is home to scattered H'Mông communities living on steep rocky slopes. Harsh living conditions and difficult access have left local children studying in severely deteriorated, makeshift wooden classrooms—unsafe and unsuitable for teaching and learning. For years, a well-built, fully equipped school has remained a distant dream for the villagers.

Oak Village - The 9th Avenue / 1+1>2 Architects

Valeria Silva — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Oak Village - The 9th Avenue is a residential area nestled in the highlands of Pyin Oo Lwin, a picturesque town in Myanmar situated over 1000 meters above sea level, renowned for its pleasant all-year-round weather. Guided by a vision of sustainable development, the project aims to create a thriving ecosystem that integrates four key pillars: ecology, economy, culture, and society. This approach fosters a sustainable community designed to flourish over the long term.

Na Pan School / 1+1>2 Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000

Located at the foot of Pa Han Mountain, Na Pan School is the learning space for 204 students across six classes. The school sits on a central plot of land, with its gate facing the inter-village road, and is bordered at the back by the Nam Vat Stream and vast rice fields.

Tham Luong Kindergarten & Primary School / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Tham Luong Kindergarten & Primary School – The Mountain Shaped - On the rugged rocky plateau of Tham Luong School (Du Gia commune, Yen Minh district, Ha Giang province), construction was completed in 2023 with the sponsorship of the Midas Foundation. This school is located in the living area of the Hmong ethnic group, which migrated to the land of the Tay people. Previously, due to natural disasters and landslides, the entire Hmong village lost their homes and land, forcing them to move to a new location. Since then, they have developed a mentality of "living on borrowed land", where everything in their village, from houses to schools, is temporary.

Rooster School / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:00:00 +0000

The school is designed to serve 50 preschool students. Before the construction of the school, the students had to study temporarily in a small communal house due to the lack of classrooms. The chosen location for the construction of the school is conveniently accessible for children aged 3-5 to travel to the school safely. It is situated near the village road and adjacent to a football field where daily sports activities for youth take place.

Bat Trang Ceramic Community House / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:00:00 +0000

After three years of construction, Bat Trang Ceramic Community House was put into operation in 2021. With a total investment of 150 billion VND, the project is part of The Center for “Quintessence of the Vietnamese Craft Village” to develop craft villages and preserve the traditions of pottery craft more than 500 years old.

Lung Vai School / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Mushroom springs from the ground - Lung Vai village is located atop a craggy mountain where the Hmong people reside. The lack of a road network makes accessibility extremely difficult. During the construction process, people from Lung Vai and the neighboring village of Bac Sum joined hands to pave the way, enabling construction materials to be transported more easily.

Jackfruit Village / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The site is located in Trai Lang Village, Co Dong Commune, Son Tay town, with a total area of 1.7 ha, surrounded by a lake in the South and South-west. The existing site has 38 jackfruit trees, and 13 pomelo trees, which are typical of rural areas in the North of Vietnam.

Thanh Tan Primary School / 1+1>2 Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 01:00:00 +0000

Thanh Tan School Site is located in Thach Thanh District, Thanh Hoa Province where the weather condition is unfavorable with hot sun and many natural disasters, resulting in economic difficulty. Currently, the school has 4 existing classrooms that do not meet the needs of the students coming to school. The new building block consists of 3 classrooms, each is enough for 30 students. New block construction is oriented in the main north-south direction (south-oriented corridor to avoid sunlight while catching the cool breeze from the southeast direction).

Cobblestone House / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The cobblestone house is located in the Red River village of Bat Trang, a traditional pottery community in Northern Vietnam. The architect is also the owner of the house. He has accumulated the culture through working with ethnic minorities for many years. He loves the cultural identity and traditional colors of the highland villages, along with the pottery of Bat Trang village – where he was born to create his unique living space.

Na Khoang School / 1+1>2 Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Na Khoang School is located in the middle of a village of a Thai ethnic group - where there is a rich and diverse cultural lifestyle and community activities. Inspired by the design of flowers between the mountains and hills, each roof has a different inclination like a diverse - rhythmic dance.

Dewey Schools / 1+1>2 Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 05 May 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The project encompasses an area of 2ha, located in the Tay Ho Tay New Urban Zone. The goal is to design a complex for inter-level education from preschool to high school, including personal development facilities such as a performance center and swimming school. The Dewey schools’ architectural features manifest a modern, and liberal ambiance, standing as a landmark in the wider land area.

The Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics / 1+1>2 Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 22:00:00 +0000

Renovated from the ground of Nguyen Van Huyen primary school, The Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM) occupies an area of 2.127sqm, of which the construction area is 1800 sqm. The site is designed to house infrastructures for the National Program for the Development of Mathematics (2010-2030); with customised space to host international, cross-discipline exchanges.

Sister’s House / 1+1>2 Architects

Bianca Valentina Roșescu — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 20:00:00 +0000

The work is built where the current landscape has diverse terrain with many perennial trees that need to be kept. The design poses the problem of minimizing interference with the natural ecosystem, retaining trees, soil and water as the main factors, developing works in continuity with the landscape.

Ban Ly School / 1+1>2 Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 10 May 2021 01:00:00 +0000

Ban Ly village is located in the valley of Chieng Khoan commune, Quynh Nhai District, Son La Province, surrounded by majestic mountain ranges, river and verdant rice fields. Most of the inhabitants are Thai ethnic minority, with the treacherous mountainous area and difficult to approach, the lives of people are still in shortage. Day by day, students have to cross through rivers and hills to go to school. However, the existing school has deteriorated facilities and inadequate classes.

Mother's House / 1+1>2 Architects

Andreas Luco — Mon, 25 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Mother’s house is located in Jackfruit Village, Co Dong Commune, Son Tay district, Western suburb of Hanoi. The land slopes gradually to the lake with spacious views. The house is an organic symbiosis with nature. Hiding under jackfruit and grapefruit trees, the thatched roof spreads to the lake, continuing with the branches, wavily continuing with the river flow.