Vietnamese studio CTA ? Creative Architects has crafted Nam House in Ho Chi Minh City. Designed in 2024, the specialists used the structure’s brick facade and water feature to evoke bioclimatic design. The residence comprises three volumes of varying sizes. Industrial beams frame the block which is covered with long, thin and soft red clay bricks in a raked process. Additionally, tall bamboo plants cover the courtyard, acting as a screen.

Vietnamese architecture studio CTA ? Creative Architects created the brick-walled Nam House featuring five bioclimatic architectural principles with a triad structure in Ho Chi Minh City.
The structure comprises three main volumes of different sizes, connected by a courtyard and staircase.
Industrial-looking support beams frame the front block ? comprising a garage, living room and bedroom ? which mainly relies on its brick facade to minimise solar heat gain. Described by the designer as “brick laying creating a break through”, Nam House’s exterior is finished with long, narrow and thin bricks, limewashed in soft red.

The individual bricks are unevenly spaced as part of a “raked process”, with wide gaps between each one.
CTA ? Creative Architects chose this finish because it causes certain parts of the wall to be shaded from the sunlight and overheated air.
“The heat offload solution uses raked mortar joint,” the studio explained. “By using this building technique, with various sun a...