Vietnamese architecture firm MIA Design Studio has designed an office space surrounded by a plenty of plants and greenery in Vietnam. 

Named Mr.Green’s Office, the 260-square-metre space is located within an office building in District 3, HCMC. The project was designed for a client who has a passion for plants, flowers, and comfort and lightness. 

Based on this, the studio created an “outdoor office” and filled the space abundant greenery. "An outdoor garden in a high-rise concrete block. Why not?," said MIA Design Studio.

"Us, the children of nature, always fall in love with the beauty of landscape."

As the studio explained, Vietnam's urban areas are increasingly losing the inherent green spaces and spaces necessary for the living environment. 

The rapid development of an economic center of a country produces more and more high-rise concrete blocks in the urban areas, young businesses and workers spend thousands of hours of intellectual activities in the city in limited blocks of space, and with limited emotions.

"Our client, and MIA Design Studio personally, is not one of them. We go above the barrier, conceived the idea of building an "outdoor office" in a giant concrete office building block," added the firm.

In multiple floors, offices use a part of the building floor. When the elevator doors open, the elevator lobby would lead to the reception and lobby space, which is combined with a small bonsai garden and waiting seating as a message showing the host's hospitality.

The main materials used in the project show the authenticity of the space, from the cool tone of the metal creates a contrast, complementing the elegance and compactness. Subsequently, the trees have become a colorful "Miss" in a neutral and gentle picture.

Being led inside, the experiencer will completely lose the cramped and stuffy feeling of the city as they approach the "outdoor lounge garden" of the "owner". The reception space and meeting room are arranged inside a garden. 

Not only has the function of creating privacy with the surrounding works, but this garden also has the function of regulating light, reducing glare in the afternoon, and shining directly into the office.

Floor plan

Diagram

Diagram

MIA Design Studio previously completed The Straw Pavilion in Thu Duc, HCMC, Vietnam. The firm completed a gallery and showroom, opening up a long panorama towards the sea in Ham Thuan Nam, Binh Thuan, Vietnam.

Project facts

Project name: Mr.Green’s Office

Architects: MIA Design Studio

Location: District 3, HCMC

Designed in: 2020

Completed in: 2021

Total floor area: 260m2

Principal Architect: Nguyen Hoang Manh

Concept Design: Nguyen Quoc Long

Technical Design: Bui Hoang Bao

General contractor: Lien A

Lighting suppliers: Unios, Barrisol, Flos

Furniture supplier: Bo Concept, HAY

All images © Hiroyuki Oki

All drawings © MIA Design Studio

> via MIA Design Studio