Timber balconies venture from the nook of this skinny concrete lodge in Nah Trang, Vietnam, designed by native studio 324Praxis.

Situated in a well-liked vacationer space, the lodge referred to as the Sep’on Heartfulness Centre is designed by 324Praxis to create a sense of “safety and intimacy” for visitors.

It has an uncovered concrete construction, visually softened by plant-filled interiors and picket particulars.

Subverting the everyday row home typology, 324Praxis designed the rooms of the lodge to be impartial “cubes”. These are positioned round a collection of open and planted public areas and related by walkways in wooden and metal.

“This venture may very well be thought-about as one other try and discover a modern residing method in row home typology,” 324Praxis founder Dat Dinh instructed Dezeen.

“By means of the composition of ‘cubes’ and the general public areas along with staircases, the circulation is a ‘silk ribbon’ created to attach all areas, offering a continuous journey to find completely different locations all through the constructing,” he continued.

The majority of Sep’on Heartfulness Centre is elevated on concrete and metal columns. The open floor flooring includes a plant-filled cafe and bar that sit straight off the road.

As soon as inside, two staircases and a elevate join the constructing’s 5 storeys, the place three completely different room sorts are organised throughout the entrance, centre and rear of the slender plan.

The biggest rooms overlook the road and have timber balconies. These venture from the southwestern nook of the lodge on the decrease three storeys and sit internally on the higher two ranges, sheltered by glazing.

Deeper into the plan, different bedrooms look out onto the open, planted areas of the lodge, together with a yoga and meditation area.

“Compositions of geometry enhance the privateness for personal areas and on the identical time enhance the open environment, connecting indoor and outside, offering pure air air flow and shade,” Dinh instructed Dezeen.

“We understood it was important to introduce a extra dynamic conception of area, for various temporalities to inhabit the constructing with out hindering one another,” he added.

All the supplies that 324Praxis used for the Sep’on Heartfulness Centre, whether or not concrete, metal or wooden, have been left uncovered with minimal therapy. That is hoped to make seen to visitors how the constructing is constructed.

Different skinny motels featured on Dezeen embrace PituRooms in Java by Sahabat Selojene and the One Room Lodge in Antwerp by DMVA.

The pictures is by Duy Nhat, Le Ba Loc.