在不断变化的当代背景下，房子的建筑会在多大程度上寻求成为？
To what extent will the architecture of a house sought to become in a constant changing contemporary context?
快速变化的社会使建筑处于一个不得不迅速改变以适应新的功能或商业化的需求的地步，而变化的频率是模糊的和持续的。如果一个地方仅仅由价值的焦点来定义，那么房子在多大程度上会支持经济价值和功能的矛盾现实，同时保留其核心的建筑价值，即养育、稳定和持久性？
Fast changing society put architecture at a point to which it has to change quickly to adapt to the demand of new functions or commercialization, and the frequency of changes is both ambiguous and persistent. If a place is defined just by the focus on values, to what extent will the house support the ambivalent reality of economic value and function, while retaining its core architectural one, which is nurture, stability, and permanence?
目睹改建的过程，设计背后的建筑师们面临着一个开放式的问题，即房子应该如何成长，思考哪一部分是保留其核心建筑意图的心脏，而房子的其余部分则可以自由修改。
Witnessing the course of alterations, the architects behind the design are confronted with an open-ended question on how a house should grow, pondering on which part is the heart that will retain its core architectural intention, while the remaining chunk of the house will be free for modifications.
受委托对一个朋友的房子进行改造，KIANTRUC O选择通过减去现场的空白来填补背景。这座房子是一座有七十年历史的殖民时期别墅，坐落在城市中心最繁忙的道路上。原来的房子是一栋砖砌建筑，后来在二十年前又在房子后面增加了一个独立的钢结构。
Commission to renovate a friend house, KIENTRUC O chose to fill in the context by subtracting the site with a void. The house is a seventy years old colonial villa that sits on one of the busiest roads in the heart of the city. The original house is a brick building that later expanded with an additional separate steel structure at the back of the house twenty years ago.
面对城市的持续混乱，房子通过空间减法将自己内敛起来，与城市环境并列，创造出一个空洞，表示其嘈杂的环境，只是保持内部独白、诗意的静止、思考、沉思和联系的时刻。椭圆的几何形状，空隙沿着房子的水平面向后面的钢结构刻画，继续向上到屋顶，形成上面楼层的后退模式。虚空的几何形状的空间抽象被具体化了。
Confronted with the constant chaos of the city, the house juxtaposes against its urban context by introverting itself through spatial subtraction, creating a void that denotes its noisy context, only to remain a moment of internal monologue, poetic stillness, reflection, contemplation, and connection. Elliptical in geometry, the void carves along the horizontal side of the house toward the steel structure to the back, continuing upward to the roof forming the receding pattern of the floors above. The spatial abstraction of the void’s geometry is materialized.
自从商业化以来，建筑已经发生了变化。它不只是像以前那样传达审美，而是更多的商业解释，其逻辑在未来的某个时间点会过期，而且过期得很快。当虚空静静地坐着，表示心无旁骛，它是情感纯洁的体现，在越南人对自然的理解中引发了一种微妙的感觉，尽管程序性功能是模糊的。
Architecture has changed since commercialization. It does not just convey aesthetic as how it used to be, but more commercial construed, whose logic at some point in the future will expire, and it rather expires quickly. As the void sits in silence, denoted of distractions, it is the embodiment of the purity of emotion, triggering a sense of subtlety in the Vietnamese understanding of nature, despite the ambiguity of programmatic function.
Architects: KIENTRUC O
Area: 775 m²
Year: 2017
Photographs: Hiroyuki Oki
Lead Architect: Đàm Vũ
Design Team:An-Ni Lê, Dân Hồ, Tài Nguyễn, Duy Tăng, Nhung Hồ
Country:Vietnam