Located off the coast of the Angsila fishing village, in Chonburi Province, Thailand, this prototype designed to boost ecotourism draws on the bamboo scaffolding traditionally used for oyster cultivation. The local fishermen bring people visiting Ang
The firm Bangkok Onion – established in 2007 by Siriyot Chaiamnuay and Arisara Chaktranon – was commissioned to raise a small conference room and a pick-up/drop-off driveway for guests at the Holiday Inn hotel at Bophut Beach in Samui, Thailand’s sec
Long goy is a term in the dialect of northern Thailand. It translates as ‘try it on,’ and is the name of the street fashion house for which the local practice Sher Maker has raised this building. All the processes of clothes-making are carried out he
The project addresses three principles: use of construction techniques and industrial materials that can be executed with traditional methods; flexibility in the program to provide functionality, play, and aesthetics; and climatic sensitivity.
A modular structure that draws inspiration from traditional constructions in the Thai countryside harbors a preschool which the community at large participated in raising. Crowned with solar chimneys to guarantee natural ventilation and ensure a high
On the initiative of the local government, several constructions complete a forest reserve for the Kuy, an ethnic group that has lived with and tended to elephants for centuries.
The building is a box whose image varies depending on how much sunlight falls on the facade, built with 20.000 rectangular glass blocks with extended edges or wings, which allows reducing the width of the grouting to 2mm... [+]
The pavilion, with an area of 782 m² and capacity for 300 students, is integrated into the school complex with a structure of bamboo trusses treated with borax salt, built on site, and placed with the help of a crane... [+]
The German firm of Ole Scheeren has completed this residential skyscraper in the Thai capital. Named MahaNakhon (great metropolis), its 314-meter-tall volume is carved to form a pixelated composition that opens up to the city with an ‘eroded’ spiral
On a bank of the Chao Phraya River in Ban Run, a district in Thailand’s Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province, Bangkok Project Studio – headed by Boonserm Premthada – has built this wine bar, a pavilion 9 meters tall with sides of 11 meters, conceived as
Built using local stone in a reddish tone, the bricks that wrap the exhibition program undergo a double-firing process to obtain the gray hue of traditional Chinese bricks, symbolizing in this way the cultural exchange between the two countries... [+
Configured as an 8.5- meter structure of concrete whose core holds up ten cantilevers with stairs and platforms, the tower lures people into the activity and exchange it is meant for; its tangle of intersecting routes recalls Escher’s labyrinthian sp
On an idyllic beach south of the Taiwanese island of Koh Samui, the project adapts to the beauty of the landscape taking up the spaces between the rocks, which become part of the life of the inhabitants thanks to the concave form of the villas...
The challenge of this small library in the old marketplace of a Bangkok slum was not so much to deal with a scant budget as to involve an unmotivated community in building it.
The Mae Sot school is the first case in a large program involving the application of a light transportable modular system where industrialized elements and local materials can be combined.
The emphatic and hermetic character of the film and animation school building comes from the sculptural force of its striking walls of native red brick laid by local artisans.
Rodeada de una vasta plantación de teca, la pieza se divide en dos partes diferenciadas: una zona íntima, delimitada por bloques de hormigón; y un ámbito, más permeable, donde se sitúan las áreas destinadas al baño. Una celosía de bambú cubre el paño
Using traditional building techniques, the classrooms of this small orphanage were raised with wooden structures prefabricated and assembled on site and then covered with woven bamboo canes.
