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[Photos] Award-Winning Design Links Nha Trang Restaurant And Sea

When D3 Architects came up with this design for a beachside Nha Trang restaurant, they sought to create a structure with a strong connection to its surrounding environment, in this case, the beach. Given its recent win at an architecture competition, it looks like they hit the mark.


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From the architect: Nha Trang is a famous city by the sea, a beautiful destination for tourists from all over the world. The Eland 4 Seasons, a bar and restaurant on the beach built in the last decade, is a popular tourist spot with a perfect location.

However it has a pressing issue in the urban environment of the city, it breaks the continuity of the seaside public park.

After several reports published on the news about this issue, a decision was made by the city governor to request the owner of the building to make modifications to the buildings to improve the connectivity across the seaside park and the white sandy beach.

The brief of this additions and alterations project mainly involve changes to the superstructure to increase the visual porosity of the building and to integrate it with the seaside park as a contiguous space.

Based on the principals of sustainable development, our proposal reconnects the seaside park using a new green roof planted with native plants and trees, and recreates viewpoints in the park and the beach with an elevated walkway across the new tree canopy.

Ground level porosity is achieved through the reconfiguration of spaces within the bar and restaurant to visually connect the city with the beach, while revitalizing the relationship between the restaurant seating areas and the sea.

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