Wyndham Garden Villa Hotel Phu Quoc Island

Wyndham Garden Villas Phu Quoc in Vietnam, led by architect Nguyen Hoang Manh with interior design by Steven Baetman and others, addresses a key disadvantage: the land site has no sea view. The response is to design garden villas around large courtyards in the tradition of Vietnamese rural houses. The master plan arranges the villas like a traditional Vietnamese village: bamboo-lined exteriors, small winding lanes as internal roads that feel familiar, and clusters of five or seven villas forming a small hamlet with its own entry path and shared courtyard, while each villa still preserves a private, quiet, romantic atmosphere. Three-metre perimeter walls guarantee privacy, and the villas deliberately omit internal doors to embrace nature as fully as possible. Each villa's interior is unique in layout but shares the same premise of linking people and greenery, as if visitors were lost in foliage. Fabric curtains hung from the roofline provide privacy for rooms and gardens. Open corners of each villa collect natural light, and interiors use rustic, nature-close furniture. Single-storey villas are paired with Wyndham's private leisure spaces and open sky views. The overall result is a low-rise, village-like resort in which architecture recedes behind landscape.