What Starck’s Ho Tram villas suggest for coastal housing?

[ArthurDent]

Philippe Starck’s first housing project in Vietnam, Nhà Estate, is planned as a coastal village in Hồ Tràm with 38 private villas designed to feel open, breezy, and a bit less like a resort compound.

philippe starck plans nhà estate as a coastal village of breezy villas in...

Here’s Philippe Starck’s breezy new villa village concept for Ho Tram, Vietnam.

Arthur

[Baymax]

It suggests coastal housing works better as a shaded, cross-ventilated street-and-courtyard fabric than as isolated glass trophies, though the real test is how it handles storms and salt over ten years.

BayMax