Vietnamese architecture practice MIA Design Studio has completed gallery and showroom that opens up a long panorama towards the sea in Ham Thuan Nam, Binh Thuan, Vietnam.

Named Thanh Long Bay Gallery, the gallery is located at Viet Nam’s coastal which is Ke Ga's Lighthouse. 

Covering a total of 1,288-square-metre area, the program of the gallery includes drop off area, lobby, sale area, mockup house, cinema, female & male restroom, technical department, staff room.

Guests are welcomed with a long entry hall and its roof raised on slender columns, which makes visitors feel like they are walking in a forest. 

MIA Design Studio won the WA Awards with Villa Tan Dinh in Vietnam in the 36th Cycle, alongside with the firm's well-known project Sky House which won the WA Awards in the 33rd cycle. 

Conceived as landscape boxes, each boxes contain its own landscape layer also play as a cushion between the people inside and the opened-seaview outside. Boxes are also covered with lush greenery on their façades. 

"The project has a model house section as well as being a welcome hall for new coming-to-town guests," said MIA Design Studio. 

Since the main purpose of the building was designed to serve guests and as a showroom gallery, the interior spaces required clearness with the capability of hosting numbers of people when needed, according to the studio. 

The design criteria is to broaden the most space because of the seaview. In each separate space, the design team create long panorama frame horizontally so that the people inside can make the most out of the skyline. 

The weather aspect is carefully concerned which lead to the occurrence of deep and shallow awning incase of hurricane.

Choosing a boxed system and thanks to the capability of extended construction system, the view is broadened. Each box is exploited differently in terms of lighting and landscape aspect. 

"By this approach, guests can fully enjoy the nature but the building is well protected from weather changes and hurricanes," added the studio.

In the project, the architects used a long opened corridor in landscape to extend the usage of the building which also improve the experience of the guests. 

"The main aspect is still the landscape and the view, we want the people who come to the Gallery can actually inhale the distinguishing atmosphere of the place in the most memorized way," as the team continued.

Master plan

Axonometric drawing

Ground floor plan

Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C

MIA Design Studio, founded in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2003, is led by Mr. Nguyen Hoang Manh as pricipal architect. The projects of MIA Design Studio are valued for their formal simplicity, integration of interior and exterior into fluid spaces with special attention to landscape and climate conditions of each project.

MIA Design Studio's projects include Villa Tan Dinh in Vietnam, Wyndham in Vietnam, Sky House marked by small protruding balconies in Vietnam. 

Project facts

Project: Thanh Long Bay Gallery

Location: Ham Thuan Nam, Binh Thuan, Vietnam

Developer: Nam Group

Designed in: 2019

Completed in: 2020

Land Area: 3188 m2

Total floor area: 1288 m2

Principal Architect: Nguyen Hoang Manh

Concept Design: Truong Nguyen Quoc Trung, Nguyen Tan Phat

Interior Design: Le Vu Hai Trieu, Nguyen Thi Thao Suong, Le Ho Ngoc Thao

Technical Design: Bui Hoang Bao, Tran Trung Truc

General Contractor: Quoc Cuong 

M&E Contractor: Pameco 

Lighting supplier: Panasonic

Sanitary equipment supplier: Bravat

All images © Oki Hiroyuki

All drawings © MIA Design Studio 

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