Studio
Refining the fabric of life through space
We started in 2011 in an eight-square-metre workroom in District 1. We work out of Vinhomes Central Park now.
01 — Beginnings
Eight square metres
The first job was an apartment renovation for a Korean family posted to the city. Watching things go wrong every day in the gap between a local site crew and a Korean client led us to one conclusion: design and construction should not be split between two companies.
So in 2015 we built our own site team. The person who drew the plan goes to the site, and what the site teaches goes back into the next plan. It looks slower. It is faster, because nothing gets built twice.
Today we work with clients from more than twelve countries — Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore and beyond. Ninety-eight per cent of new enquiries come from a past client or their referral.
- Projects completed
- 320+
- Client nationalities
- 12+
- Repeat & referral
- 98%
- Free aftercare
- 12mo
02 — Standards
Four things we hold to
The estimate comes apart
Materials, labour and management are listed separately. Nothing additional is invoiced without a written agreement first.
The site reports daily
Photographs of the day's progress go out on KakaoTalk or Zalo for the whole build. You can be on another continent and still know where it stands.
Local sourcing, Korean tolerances
Materials are bought in Vietnam at sensible prices. The build standards and the acceptable margins of error are Korean.
Twelve months of free aftercare
Construction defects are repaired free for twelve months after handover, and handled as a priority after that.
03 — Timeline
How we got here
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2011
An 8m² room in District 1
The studio opens and completes its first residential project.
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2015
Our own site team
Past one hundred completed projects. Subcontracting stops; an in-house crew starts.
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2018
Move to Vinhomes Central Park
New headquarters, and the work widens into commercial space.
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2022
First boutique hotel
A first hospitality commission, and a deeper F&B practice.
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2026
Twelfth year
Past 320 completed projects.
04 — Team
The people you'll work with
What we care about most is what happens after the project ends.
DESIGNGAGE — Ho Chi Minh City, since 2011
We want to be the studio you can still reach a month after move-in, and a year after that. The ninety-eight per cent figure comes from exactly there.