Detached building in Vietnam: Floor area of mezzanine is not greater than 65% of the building area of the story underneath

Detached home refers to a residential building erected on a separate land lot under the legal ownership of an organization, family or person, including villas, terraced houses and independent houses.

According to Clause 1 Article 1 of Circular No. 07/2019/TT-BXD of the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam placing Article 1a after Article 1 of Circular No. 03/2016/TT-BXD on interpretation, the number of stories in a building (or construction work) includes all of floors above the ground level (including technical floor or loft), half/semi-basement, exclusive of the attic. In a building, a loft is not counted as a story of the building only when the loft is used for covering a staircase or elevator shaft, or hiding built-in equipment (if any), or is used as an intermediate space to reach the roof and serve rescue purposes, and makes up 30% at maximum of the dimensional area of the roof.

With respect to a detached building, a mezzanine shall not be counted as a story of that building if the floor area of such mezzanine is not greater than 65% of the building area of the story underneath.

With respect to houses, home-type structures or buildings with multiple stories built on floor levels (exclusive of detached residential houses), mezzanines are not counted as stories thereof only when they are designed for use as technical spaces (e.g. technical floor levels at the beds of swimming pools, floor levels where generators are placed or other equipment), cover no more than 10% of the building area of the story underneath, but less than 300 m2.

Notably, in a building project, only one mezzanine, which is not counted as a story of the project, is allowed.

View more provisions at Circular No. 07/2019/TT-BXD of the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam, effective from January 01, 2020.

Thu Ba

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