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A design office in a garden

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SSA Architects, is a 100% foreign owned company registered since 2010 under the Laws of Vietnam. Multi-disciplinary design consultant engaged in Architecture, Interior Design, Furniture and Product Design.

SSA architect office is nested in a villa surrounded by a lush tropical garden in Saigon. Set up as home, the studio offers to the architects a comfortable environment to remain productive and creative. The crew is composed by passionate people working as a team with a single goal: the project.

The founders, Franck Sicart and Julien Smith, both French architects are leading and coaching the team.
SSA founders in a work meeting
The Company is led by Franck Sicart and Julien Smith – Foreign French International Architects in Vietnam – Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon).
Franck Sicart

Franck Sicart

Architect & Co-founder

After studying in Paris and Bruxelles from 1994, Franck Sicart (French architect) decides to settle his practice in Vietnam in 2004. He has a wide experience in hospitality 5-stars resort, from master plan to interior design. Franck Sicart had also the opportunity to design a large range of projects such as retail spaces, schools or luxury apartments.

Julien Smith

Julien Smith

Architect & Co-founder

Since 1994, Julien Smith (French architect) is involved in the Architectural design field. He has gained extensive experience working on a wide range of projects (high-rise buildings, mixed-use program, resorts, private villas, hospitals, office buildings, interior design, fit-out rehabilitation). Since 2004 he's focusing on working in Asia.

The SSA Team in their garden

"In design, besides the absolute necessity of providing spaces that resonate with the program and the various constraints, we are focusing on creating emotions and memories."

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"Architecture is 4 dimensions = the 3 dimensions and the time to discover it. Like in music = the time we need to listen tothe entire sequence before being able to fully appreciate it."

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"Design is about the user, it is about his journey, it is about the evolution of time during the day and the night, it is about the space discovery, it is experience..."

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"In-between spaces such as corridors, alleys, buffers have a high potential to bring emotions and memories. Our consciousness is focused on the prime areas, while our subconscious focuses on the in-between. This is in the subconscious activity that our memory works the best, this is where we picture, we print durable emotions and memories."

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"Proportions, scales, alignments, patterns, the silence between two sound, the void between two masses... As technology progresses, so does the trend for authenticity and simplicity."

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