Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture

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Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture

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  • Project Name: Bonte cafe
  • Practice: Yên Architecture
  • Products: Vietceramics , Toto , Zento
  • Completion year: 2021
  • Gross Built up Area: 180 sqm
  • Project Location: Quang Nam
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Lead Architects/Designer: Nguyen Hoang Son
  • Design Team: Nguyen Hoang Son, Nguyen Van Chuong, Le Thi Thanh Hien, Duong Van Mau.
  • Clients: Mr Hoang Giang
  • Engineering: Nguyen Tan Chung
  • Structural Consultants: Ho Si Nam
  • Landscape Consultants: Duong Thi Thanh Thanh
  • Contractors: Yên
  • Project Manager: Nguyen Hoang Son
  • Collaborators: Mot Concrete, Ngoc Wood, Lực Steel, Đạt Mechanical, Tuấn Terrazzo, Vietceramic ,Zento, Toto
  • Interior + Furniture: Le Thi Thanh Hien
  • Photo Credits: Nguyen Hoang Son
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Excerpt: Bonte café, designed by Yen Architecture, desires to bring nature into the project where people can touch with the light and wild nature. The buildings are covered by tall trees and low trees and have flowers, shrubs, and some types of vines. The team kept the color of concrete, timber, steel, and grindstone. They highly appreciate the local craftsmen who, although they don’t have modern machines, have great minds and hands, making the material’s surface emotional and attractive.

Project Description

[Text as submitted by architect] Vietnam is a developing country, urbanization is happening rapidly and it is driving people away from nature. The buildings around us are gradually concreting and leaving bad effects on our own living environment. Yen Architecture hopes that through this project, people will reconnect to nature.

Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
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Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
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Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
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Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
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2 km northwest of the centre of Hoi An ancient town. Bonte Cafe is located on the outskirts of the city, the area adjacent to the old town and the new residential area. With the desire to bring nature into the project, people can touch the leaves, flowers with the light and wild nature. The buildings are covered by tall trees and low trees and have flowers, shrubs, and some types of vines. With layers of vegetation, the problem of heat here is very well solved. The trees covered sunshine and both provide moisture and oxygen in the air that makes the environment cooler and cleaner. During the rainy season, the amount of rainwater is returned to the soil through this garden, ensuring the cycle of water and carbon in nature.

Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son
Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son
Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son

The door system with the folding option can be maximized to form the roof and at the same time blur the boundary between the inside and the outside, the air is circulated well, the space becomes larger. In the midst of this open space, a cup of coffee acts as a catalyst to help people become closer to each other. Bonte Cafe has 3 stories, with a void to connect the ground floor to level 1 – making the interaction between floors easier, customers can easily choose a good place to sit and enjoy their drinks. Level 3 is quieter and more secluded to work and study. We’ve arranged a number of tables for group seating, and a few English learning groups have recently chosen this space as a study place.

Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son
Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son
Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son

Not many materials were used in this building but they are used to their true nature. We keep the colour of concrete, timber, steel and grindstone. We highly appreciate the local craftsmen who, although they don’t have modern machines, have great minds and hands, making the surface of the material emotional and attractive.

Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son
Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son
Bonte cafe | Yen Architecture
© Nguyen Hoang Son

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