Rua Central, 8, 2640-028, Ribamar, Portugal
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Yoga Pod 2
Ho Chi Minh City
The project consists of a new yoga studio located in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, that was developed in two distinctive phases. The first consisted of developing a concept without a site yet chosen. As requested by the clients, the only guidelines were an estimated floor area and the fact that it had to be on a rooftop. The concept design was then formulated with these requests in mind and with a capacity to be easily adapted once the site was chosen. As such, the proposal resulted on a rectangular shape canopy “floating” on a generic rooftop of 30mx10m, with one the corners gently lifted, as if it was revealing the timber interior to this heavily concrete city. Coincidently, with the global pandemic happening and daily life-changing to new customs, so was the project concept altered. On this second phase, just before lockdowns, the site chosen by the clients was a three-floor shophouse so commonly found in Vietnam cities.