Salvaged ring, a coffee shop located along side with a highway in the countryside of Nha Trang, Vietnam, has been listed as one of strong competitors at World Architecture Festival taking place at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore from Oct. 1-3.
The owner of Salvaged Ring, who is a local carpenter, provided a big stock of scrap wood to the architects in hopes of “giving another life” to this material rather than leaving it fall into oblivion.
The finished structure was also built with locally sourced rocks, coconut leaves, and other materials to help the building blend in with the local village architecture.
The first impression of the coffee shop is its unusual curved thatch roof that extended from the highway down to the riverbank. That single roof connects two different levels into one and softens the rigid structure supporting below. Guests are led by an exotic route from the exterior to the interior around a courtyard created by the ring roof.
VIETNAM – Local coffee shop to compete at the World Architecture Festival
