The hotel project is located in Bentre, a suburban town about 80 kilometers southwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Bentra is one of the provinces that make up the Mekong Delta, an area characterized by fertile rice paddies and rich coconut forests. The project is a boutique hotel with about 30 rooms, aimed at tourists and tourist groups visiting the Mekong Delta. Customers want hotels to be low cost and as open and natural as possible. The site is long and narrow, 28 meters wide and 128 meters deep, and although it is located on the side of the road, as you go deeper into the site, you can see the beautiful coconut groves of Bentre. 
However, due to the need to provide access for emergency vehicles within the site, the building is very long and narrow, resulting in long cycles. We felt that the key point of the design was how to invite guests to the back of the building without getting bored. Hotel design is "experience design". In this project, we looked at how to design a unique hotel for Bentre, where people could experience the richness of nature despite the shortcomings of the site. 
Feel the sequence of the rich natural environment of the Mekong Delta. Due to the extremely narrow shape of the site, it was necessary for the building to have a corridor. This means that guests have to walk a long distance from the entrance on the street to get to the back of the hotel. Therefore, we designed the rooms not in a straight line, but at different angles to the site, so that the whole building has a zigzag. The structure consists of five groups of rooms and a corridor along them. The location of the corridor and guest room layout is switched at the junction. This arrangement also results in a better peripheral view. This creates a sequence that is not a tiresome sequence of long corridors, but a diverse and circuitous sequence that allows visitors to enjoy a variety of scenes. 
The zigzag and recessed part of the building is a garden planted with palm trees and other tropical trees, and as visitors walk on the ground floor, a green garden emerges at every corner, as well as entrances, restaurants, and other publicly designed public spaces. The architects intended to obtain significant views of the landscape and the magnificent coconut grove through the arrangement of corridors and staircases on the upper floors. 
Terracotta bricks: handmade materials produced in the region. In the Mekong Delta region, many factories produce unglazed tiles; These kinds of handmade bricks were fired in a brick factory in the suburbs and used for the façade of this project. Each brick is handmade, so the color is not uniform, which creates a warm look that is not found in large-scale off-the-shelf products. In particular, the corridors on the second and third floors that make up the exterior walls of the hotel and the facades of the guest rooms all have a pattern of brick walls with gaps between the brick walls that act as shades and screens, allowing an impressive amount of light to shine in, changing over time. 
This unique material of the Mekong Delta, as well as the contrast with the greenery, gives the exterior of this hotel the characteristics of other hotels. Our suggestion is to make this hotel "slide into the spiritual heart of the Bentres". Visitors at this hotel will be able to experience a variety of scenes through the characteristic loop of the building. We designed a hotel where you can feel the natural beauty of Bentre just by walking around, and where the beautiful light changes over time. 