Sanuki Daisuke Architects builds light-filled house on dense urban plot in Vietnam

Double-height glazed walls help draw light into NGA House, designed by Vietnam studio Sanuki Daisuke Architects for a tight plot in Ho Chi Minh City.
NGA House is surrounded by one to three-storey buildings linked by a web of narrow alleys, where adjacent houses cast shadows over one another and block views.Sanuki Daisuke Architects filled the site with as large a volume as possible, then cut its corners according to sunlight studies that determined where light could effectively be brought