{"id":777181,"date":"2026-05-06T11:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777181\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:48:21","slug":"oddo-architects-looks-to-urban-alleyways-for-th-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777181\/","title":{"rendered":"ODDO Architects looks to urban alleyways for TH+ House"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local studio ODDO Architects<\/a> has extended TH+ House in Vietnam<\/a>, organising a series of shared, flexible spaces around tall voids informed by the “social intensity” of Hanoi’<\/a>s urban alleyways.<\/p>\n

The project saw ODDO Architects<\/a> returning to the site of TH House, which it completed in 2021,<\/a> to expand it into a neighbouring 2.5-metre-wide plot for the client’s growing family.<\/p>\n

\"VietnameseODDO Architects has extended its TH House in Vietnam<\/p>\n

With a site accessible only via narrow pedestrian alleyways, the studio looked to treat these constraints not as limitations but as “opportunities for social and spatial richness”, it said.<\/p>\n

Informed by Hanoi’s urban alleyways, ODDO Architects created a stacked series of flexible spaces overlooking tall central voids, with the whole organised around a branched steel support painted bright red.<\/p>\n

\"TH+TH+ House references urban alleyways<\/p>\n

“In Hanoi’s alley neighbourhoods, vibrant community life is shaped by daily interactions \u2013 shared tea, small businesses, street games, and spontaneous social exchanges,” said the studio.<\/p>\n

“This social intensity became a key premise for the design of TH+ House,” it continued. “Rather than stacking isolated rooms, the layout is conceived as a series of layered environments with varying degrees of privacy, allowing visual connections across floors.”<\/p>\n

\"InteriorThe extension is organised around a red-steel support<\/p>\n

On the ground floor, a new kitchen space, which sits alongside a bathroom and small courtyard, flows directly into a dining area within the footprint of the existing home. A wall of folding glass doors opens onto the adjacent alley.<\/p>\n

Above, a living room, tea room and new bedrooms are kept visually linked through the introduction of internal windows and a bean-shaped opening, creating connections between both the new spaces and back into the existing home.<\/p>\n

\"TH+Perforated walkways help light filter through the extension<\/p>\n

Each level connects back into the original TH House via perforated white-steel walkways, which enable natural light to filter through the interior. Exposed concrete floor plates and the central red-painted steel column support these walkways.<\/p>\n

“The central red steel column acts as both the structural backbone and the spatial organiser of the house,” the studio told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

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ODDO Architects builds TH House on tiny infill plot in Hanoi\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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“By concentrating the load into a single element, it frees the plan from structural constraints, allowing for larger openings, flexible layouts, and continuous visual connections across the narrow footprint,” added ODDO Architects.<\/p>\n

“As a result, the column is not only a technical solution but also expresses the project’s idea of openness, adaptability, and spatial generosity within tight urban conditions,” it added.<\/p>\n

\"TerraceConcrete is left exposed throughout<\/p>\n

While the lower spaces are defined by dark stone floors and exposed concrete ceilings, the upper levels have been lined in timber panels to create a warmer character.<\/p>\n

ODDO Architects has offices in Hanoi and in Havirov, Czech Republic, and is led by three partners: Nguy\u1ec5n \u0110\u1ee9c Trung, Mai Lan Chi Obtulovi\u010dov\u00e1 and Marek Obtulovi\u010d. In 2021, it won emerging architecture studio of the year in the Dezeen Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous homes by the studio include CH House, a dwelling on a similarly skinny site in Hanoi<\/a> that is fronted by a breezy wall of perforated concrete blocks.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Hoang Le.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local studio ODDO Architects has extended TH+ House in Vietnam, organising a series of shared, flexible spaces around…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,59226,6029,318367,25017,114048,92915,92916,67,132,68,15336,318366],"class_list":{"0":"post-777181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-extensions","13":"tag-houses","14":"tag-oddo-architects","15":"tag-residential-architecture-and-interiors","16":"tag-residential-extensions","17":"tag-sectionall","18":"tag-sectionarchitecture","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-vietnam","23":"tag-vietnamese-houses"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116527479245266683","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}