Architecture Wednesday: Vegan House of Shutters

This is a new house, created from an old apartment terrace. The owner works in travel and tourism, after renting the house he bought it and renovated it into the Vegan Shutter House; the shutter name is obvious, but he created the house as a cultural place for people to meet up, share and cook Vietnamese traditional food, especially vegan foods.

Vegan House of  Shutters. Makes sense.

The owner hoarded all the abandoned old things in the house; furniture, tables, chairs, wardrobes, windows, lampshades … and shutters. And, working on a limited budget, the architect used all of these abandoned items, along with new things, to create a fresher place which still keeps traditional values of the former house. The old window shutters were used as the main material to create a distinctive appearance, rearranged into a new facade with different colors and wrapped up onto the roof. Some open windows on the roof provide the trees beneath with space and natural light. This symbolizes growth, hopes for the future and goodness from traditional bedrock. These shutter windows also turn up inside the house as light partitions, to separate and decorate the space.

On the ground floor is the kitchen, with curved cabinetry that goes through the main floor. The big kitchen at the front is where people cook, talk and enjoy their cooking together in an adjacent dining room. A garden and an old staircase to the first floor are among these spaces.

The first floor contains a bedroom at the front and a place to relax or work. A new steel staircase was built beside the atrium to the second floor, which used to be an unused roof; now it houses another bedroom made of old available steel sheeting, which lies beneath the shuttered roof system. From this room to the front, there is a garden for drinking tea and looking at night sky through the windows.

The architect hoped to create a new place for visitors from many different cultures, and showed how rearranging things in a new way, the old things and the new ones can exist together and support each other.

It's recycling and upcycling and all kinds of fabulous.

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