Wind Generated Architecture.
August 21, 2010: In golf, a ‘shaper’ is someone who transforms the existing earth into fairways and greens. The best shapers are experts who can understand nuances in physical form, materials and environmental conditions in order to create challenging and ultimately rewarding golf courses for its players. Architectkidd approached the design of a new golf clubhouse [...]
Hand Made Facades.
July 23, 2010: We’re not quite facade engineering specialists, but we have been using our curiosity as motivation to investigate possibilities and materials in buildings. In the process, we hope to develop designs that are not strictly limited to functional or technical criteria. In this recent project, we have created a new 3-storey facade using [...]
Library for a Monastery.
June 17, 2010: Architectkidd has collaborated with designer Prinda Puranananda to develop a small library building in a Buddhist monastery in Chiengrai. The building, to be located along a hill side of a rice farming area, aims to provide a learning space for the nearby community and visitors to the monastery. The design is defined by two primary materials that have been made available for this [...]
Vertical Teak.
June 4, 2010: For the construction of a new showroom of a high-rise condominium in Bangkok, we have designed a vertical installation using strips of teak wood. The pattern for this installation was originally developed to be applied as architectural cladding on several areas of the high rise building. For the showroom space, the teak installation [...]
Thailand & Venice Architecture Biennale.
May 13, 2010: Vichayuth Meenaphant & Phuttipan Aswakool have developed a design that has been awarded first runner-up in a competition to represent Thailand for the 2010 Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy. The proposal, titled “Fog”, responds to the Biennale’s architecture curator, Kazuyo Sejima, and her mission to exhibit architecture for a “post ideological society”. In addition, [...]
Klong Toey Boxes.
May 8, 2010: For the design of our first food retail project, we commissioned people living in the nearby Klong Toey slum to build a wooden installation for Tessa Cafe, a gourmet food shop in the upscale K-Village shopping complex in Bangkok. Searching for alternatives to standard techniques for interior fit-outs and construction, we approached [...]
Deep Patterns.
March 20, 2010: For the design of a new gallery, we have been developing strategies to create “deep” patterns in order to fabricate architectural walls with continuously variable thicknesses. The gallery is located inside a large commercial retail space. This existing interior space is enclosed by a strong geometrical form: a 30-meter, glass dome. The gallery will be inserted along the perimeter [...]
Speckled Superstructures?
January 20, 2010: Our work on the Lightmos showroom is now completed, and the building has been receiving some coverage from web and print publications. Among the popular designer sources, there is Archdaily and Contemporist. Also, Dezeen showed the furniture designs that came from the building’s facade materials. There is ArchThai, Minimalismi, and interestingly, [...]
Thai Parliament Competition.
August 13, 2009: How to design a parliament for a fledgling and sometimes fragile Thai democracy? For us, we believe that the answer does not lie in creating monumentality or visual symbolism, but rather in the power and significance of public spaces. We can all see that most open spaces in Bangkok are neglected landscapes [...]