RA Dorfman Prize nominee Tropical Space
Tropical Space is an architecture firm based in Ho Chi Minh City. They look to sculpture and the environment to inspire their designs, resulting in buildings that ‘breathe’.
Tropical Space
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Tropical Space is an architecture firm based in Ho Chi Minh City, founded Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn and Nguyễn Hải Long. Their practice emerged in response to a proliferation of concrete buildings in Vietnamese cities that did nothing or little to respond to their climate. Instead, they look to sculpture and the environment to inspire their designs, resulting in buildings that ‘breathe’.
Their clients and users are central to the design process, and they ensure that buildings reflect the people who inhabit them. They consistently advocate for sustainable materials, passive energy systems, and connections between occupants, buildings, and environments that are more sympathetic to their tropical context.
Tropical Space’s integration of nature and materials in challenging urban environments impressed the Awards jury.
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Royal Academy Dorfman Prize
The RA Architecture Prize is awarded to an architect or individual who has been instrumental in shaping the discussion, collection or production of architecture.