OUT-2 Design Group. International Architecture & Interior Design Practice

24/04/2026

Office Closure Notice | Thông báo nghỉ lễ

We’ll be taking a short break from Monday to Friday next week to observe Hùng Kings’ Commemoration Day (26 April), Reunification Day (30 April), and International Labour Day (1 May).

We’ll be back the following week - thank you for your understanding and wishing you a restful holiday!

Tuần tới, văn phòng OUT-2 sẽ tạm nghỉ từ Thứ Hai đến Thứ Sáu nhân dịp Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương (26/4), Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam (30/4) và Ngày Quốc tế Lao động (1/5).

Hẹn gặp lại vào tuần sau - chúc bạn một kỳ nghỉ thật thư giãn và ý nghĩa!

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OUT-2 DESIGN Group | Award-Wining Architecture, Interior & Graphic Design

06/04/2026

We are hiring at OUT-2 Design Group.

We are looking for a Senior Interior Designer and a Graphic Designer to join our studio in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

We work across workplace, education, and mixed-use projects, focusing on how space shapes behaviour, performance, and wellbeing. Our approach is human-centred, collaborative, and grounded in a clear, design-led process.

If you are interested in contributing to high-quality, performance-driven work, you can find more details in the link below.

https://www.out-2.com/latest-news-knowledge-updates/recruiting

OUT-2 Design Group is seeking a Senior Interior Designer (5-8 years), Senior Draftsperson (5-8 years) and a Graphic Designer (3-5 years) to join our studio in Ho Chi Minh City. We are a strategy-led architecture, interior, and graphic design practice working across workplace and education pr

03/04/2026

We are hiring at OUT-2 Design Group

OUT-2 Design Group is seeking a Senior Interior Designer (5-8 years), Senior Draftsperson (5-8 years) and a Graphic Designer (3-5 years) to join our studio in Ho Chi Minh City.

We are a strategy-led architecture, interior, and graphic design practice working across workplace and education projects throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Our mission is to improve how people work, learn, and live by shaping how space influences behaviour, performance, and wellbeing.

Our work connects strategy, spatial intelligence, and experience through a human-centred and collaborative design process. This requires clarity of thought, professional judgement, and the ability to translate intent into built outcomes.

Roles sit within a structured, design-led environment where:
- Process underpins performance
- Quality is non-negotiable
- Ideas must withstand the realities of delivery and construction

You will work within a cross-disciplinary team, contributing to projects that demand both creativity and rigour.

We pursue excellence, not perfection. This will not suit everyone, but for the right individuals, it offers the opportunity to do meaningful, high-quality work within a studio that is clear about its values and standards.

If this aligns with your approach to design, full details are available in the link below.

www.out-2.com/career-opportunities-2026

02/04/2026

We’re hiring at OUT-2 Design Group

We are looking for:
• Senior Interior Designer (5–8 years)
• Graphic Designer (3–5 years)
• Senior Draftsperson

to join our studio in Ho Chi Minh City.

At OUT-2 Design, we work across architecture, interiors, and graphic systems to deliver high-performance workplace and education environments across the Asia-Pacific region.

Our approach connects strategy, spatial intelligence, and experience through a clear and collaborative design process. We are looking for people who bring clarity, professional judgement, and the ability to translate ideas into built outcomes.

You will be part of a cross-disciplinary team working on projects that demand both creativity and rigour, within a studio where quality, process, and delivery matter.

We pursue excellence, not perfection. This will not suit everyone, but for the right individuals, it offers the opportunity to do meaningful, high-quality work within a studio that is clear about its values and standards.

View roles and apply here:

Current career opportunities at OUT-2 Design

26/03/2026

As part of our commitment to sustainability and community we are happy to announce our first Pre-Loved Market happening this weekend.

27/02/2026

OUT-2 Design’s 5 Principles of Green Interior Design Sustainable interior design is often misunderstood as a question of finishes or products. In reality, its greatest impact lies in how space supports people, behaviour, and long-term use.

1. DESIGNING FOR LONGEVITY, NOT TRENDS
We prioritise spatial clarity, timeless planning, and robust detailing over short-term aesthetics. Interiors that age well reduce churn, refurbishment cycles, and material waste. Projects like Unilever Homebase, Navigos Group, RMIT University and others have remained relevant, functional, and valuable for more than 8-10 years before upgrades and changes have been contemplated.

2. RESPONSIBLE MATERIAL SELECTION
Finishes are assessed for durability, maintainability, indoor air quality, and supply chain transparency. Wherever possible, we favour materials that can be repaired, refreshed, or reused rather than replaced. When we relocated our own office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, we were able to re-use and re-purpose more than 80% of our existing fitout; from the furniture to the floor finishes and glazing systems.

3. FLEXIBILITY AND CHANGE OVER TIME
Workplace and education interiors must accommodate evolving organisational needs. Loose-fit planning, modular systems, and adaptable infrastructure are central to reducing future environmental impact. While many of our projects are the catalyst for major transformation in the ways people work, learn, and live, they must continue to accommodate incremental change for many years.

4. WELLBEING AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE
Daylight, acoustic comfort, thermal control, and access to nature are fundamental sustainability concerns. A space that supports wellbeing is more likely to be valued, maintained, and retained; principles evident in projects such as Unilever Homebase, Yin Hwa Factory, NAB Ho Chi Minh City, and NAB Hanoi, where sustainability is inseparable from human experience and organisational performance.

5. INTEGRATION OF INTERIOR PLANTING AND EXTERIOR LANDSCAPES
Interior design extends beyond the building envelope. Integrating interior planting with access to external landscaped spaces supports wellbeing, daylight, natural ventilation, and thermal moderation. Conceived as a continuous spatial system, landscape becomes an environmental asset rather than a backdrop. Research by Kellert, Ulrich, and others links access to nature with improved cognitive performance, health, and wellbeing, outcomes closely associated with staff retention and long-term organisational performance.

13/02/2026

At OUT-2 Design Group 5 key principles of Green Architecture and Sustainable Design guide our decision-making across very different project typologies, scales, and budgets.

1. RESPONSE TO CLIMATE—PASSIVE FIRST
We prioritise passive strategies as the first line of environmental response. Orientation, massing, shading, natural ventilation, and envelope design are integrated and resolved early, enhancing comfort while strengthening occupants’ connection to climate, daylight, landscape, and seasonal change.

2. LONG LIFE—LOOSE FIT = ADAPTABILITY
A truly sustainable building must be capable of accommodating change. We design structures and planning frameworks that anticipate and allow for future adaptation and re-use, extending building life and reducing the environmental cost of demolition and replacement.

3. MATERIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUILDABILITY
Material selection is evaluated not only for embodied carbon, but also for availability, durability, maintenance, and local construction knowledge. Buildability matters. A detail that cannot be executed well on site is rarely sustainable in practice.

4. PERFORMANCE EMBEDDED IN DESIGN, NOT ADDED LATER
Environmental performance is integrated from the earliest briefing stages, aligned with certification pathways such as LOTUS or LEED where appropriate, but never driven by them alone.

5. CONVERSATION+COLLABORATION
Sustainability requires both conversation and collaboration. By aligning intent, expertise, and decision-making from the outset, sustainability becomes a shared responsibility embedded across the project, rather than a requirement owned by any single discipline.

From corporate headquarters to private houses, these five principles underpin each of our projects, where sustainability is expressed through restraint, clarity, and a commitment to performance over symbolism and popular trends.

12/02/2026

Lunar New Year is just around the corner...

A new year, a fresh start and lots of warm wishes from all of us to you. May this Lunar New Year bring peace, joy, and inspiration to everything you do.

Our office will take a short break from 16th - 27th February 2026, and we’ll see you again on 28 February 2026.

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Tết đang đến rất gần...

Năm mới đến, chúng tôi xin gửi thật nhiều lời chúc tốt đẹp đến bạn và những người thân yêu. Chúc một năm mới bình an, hạnh phúc và tràn đầy cảm hứng.

📌 Văn phòng nghỉ: 16 - 27/02/2026. Hẹn gặp lại vào 28/02/2026.

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OUT-2 Design | Award-Winning Architecture, Interior & Graphic Design

04/02/2026

What does it mean to be ‘GREEN’?⁠
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In recent years, the word ‘green’ has become ubiquitous in architecture and design, yet its meaning is often diluted by superficial stylistic gestures that prioritise marketing narratives over measurable environmental performance. ⁠
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For OUT-2 Design, being “green” is not a stylistic position or a compliance exercise; it is a disciplined, contextual, and fundamental way of thinking about how buildings perform in their context over time, for people, climate, and culture.⁠
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Green design begins with relevance and suitability. A sustainable outcome in Vietnam, or the wider Asia-Pacific region, cannot simply be imported from another climate, culture, or regulatory framework. It must respond to local environmental conditions, patterns of use, construction technologies, material availability, and long-term operational realities.⁠
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Sustainability also requires whole-of-life thinking. We place equal emphasis on operational performance, durability, adaptability, and maintenance, recognising that the most sustainable building is often the one that continues to perform well long after handover.⁠
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Critically, we believe sustainability should be conspicuous rather than concealed. Wherever possible, environmental performance is achieved through visible, legible passive design strategies such as orientation, shading, natural ventilation, and envelope design, reducing reliance on operational systems and ongoing technical intervention.⁠
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Finally, green design demands collaboration rather than isolation. Expertise in architecture, interiors, landscape, structure, and building services must work together as a coherent system. Sustainability emerges from this coordination and integration, rather than from isolated “green” features.⁠
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Across many of our projects, including Sanctuary, Unilever Homebase, Centrepoint Office Tower, Yin Hwa Factory, and our work for Unilever, NAB, and RMIT, sustainability has been embedded as a core design driver from the outset, not applied retrospectively.⁠
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"GREEN", in this sense, is not an outcome; it is a way of working.⁠

28/01/2026

Designed for AIS - EIS, these glazing decals reflect the school’s brand identity while supporting clarity, privacy, and learning within the classroom environment. A subtle layer of design that brings branding and function together.
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OUT-2 Design | Award-Winning Architecture, Interior & Graphic Design

19/01/2026

Every slide, swing, and sandbox holds a new adventure.⁠
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Playgrounds support early childhood development by encouraging movement, teamwork, creativity, and problem-solving. For children, play is not just fun - it’s a powerful way to learn, grow, and connect with others.⁠
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OUT-2 Design | Award-Winning Architecture, Interior & Graphic Design⁠