Bamboo Wing © Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

The Vietnamese team Vo Trong Nghia architects won the Building of the Year medal awarded by the Architects Regional Council Asia for the Dailai Bamboo Complex, two bamboo structures within the Flamingo Dailai Resort near Hanoi. This prize aims to preserve cultural identity and encourage quality environments across the Asian continent. It also highlights the architect’s role in the socio-economic and cultural life of Asian countries.

© Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

Surrounded by nature nearby Hanoi, Bamboo Wing is the pure bamboo cantilever structure flying over the sky as bird’s wings. This 12-meters-wide structure balances itself on one leg and enables to realize the spacious free space without any columns on its edge, meeting the function of the culture center to hold fashion shows, music lives, as well as conferences. The openness of the building thanks to its structure helps people inside to feel as if they are living in the nature.

© Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

The shape of the roof is suitable to take the cool wind into the building through the surrounding pond, and the deep eaves cast its shadow on the floor, making comfortable thermal environment without using air conditioners.

© Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

© Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

© Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

© Vo Trong Nghia architects-Photograph:Hiroyuki Oki

Project Facts

Status:Built in 07.2009
Program:Cafe and Restaurant
Location:Vinhphuc, Vietnam
GFA:1430m2
Client:Individual
Contractor:Hong Hac-Dai Lai JSC, Vo Trong Nghia Architects
Photographs:Hiroyuki Oki
Design credit:Vo Trong Nghia
Awards:Green Good Design, 2012
FuturArc Green Leadership, Winner, 2012
International Architecture Awards, 2011

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