“Protective Wing“, our project for a bird sanctuary in Chiang Mai, has received top honors in the 2014 regional Holcim Awards for Asia Pacific, an award recognizing the most innovative and advanced sustainable construction designs. Each year, thousands of birds are smuggled in and out of Thailand, to be sold on the world’s growing black market. […]
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4 Projects, 4 Designs, 4 Techniques
Luke Yeung recently presented Architectkidd’s work for a lecture at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning. The lecture gave us a chance to reflect on approaches and thinking that we have taken on our recent projects. The projects we showed included Lightmos (below image from Wallpaper Thailand magazine): Hard Rock Cafe in Bangkok: Caffe […]
Hands On Architecture
This is our small tribute to all the hands involved in making our architecture. Despite increasing use of high technologies and processes, there remains one basic and necessary component in making things – the skill of the hand. Without it, even the most sophisticated machinery cannot be used to its potential. It is the skills […]
Floating Hotel
This hotel on the Kwai river is Architectkidd’s interpretation of traditional river dwellings in Western Thailand. The western province of Kanchanaburi is a popular destination due to its mountainous terrain and forests. The rivers in particular play an important role in peoples’ lives and livelihoods. Activities along the river reflect how people have lived with […]
Designing for Spaces in the Forest
The goal of our “Forest Urbanism” project is to create architecture that can co-exist with new and future forests in the same space. As Thailand continues to rapidly urbanize and industrialize, more forests are being removed to ‘clear the land’ for man-made and building development. What would happen if we were instead required to preserve […]
Deforestation Increases Floods
The question of how much impact that deforestation has on flooding has been debated in environmental research. Analyzing something as large and complex as the ecological system presents challenges in isolating the causes and effects. This has led some people to believe that quantitative measurements on flooding and deforestation are too difficult to prove. Nonetheless, […]
Floods, Cities & Forests
For this year’s ASA (Association of Siamese Architects) Exposition, Architectkidd will be part of a group of design practices that will exhibit conceptual and critical designs on the issue of water, floods and cities. Architectkidd’s focus will be on the importance of forests and flood management in face of increasing urbanization in Thailand. Forests are […]
Future Seed: Bridgestone Pavilion
The Bridgestone Pavilion for the upcoming BOI (Board of Investment) Fair has recently been introduced to the public. The pavilion will be open to visitors during January 5 – 20 2012 in what is anticipated to be one of the largest public events held in Bangkok this year. Architectkidd has been involved in the design […]
Urban Farm Wins Holcim Silver Award
Architectkidd’s design has been awarded by the Holcim Foundation as a leading example of sustainable building and construction for the Asia Pacific region. The project, a new retail development in Bangkok, aims to revitalize land currently occupied by a textile factory. One of the unique features of the design is to provide a higher level […]
Lanchaloemphrakiat (LCPK) Museum Project
The Lanchaloemphrakiat (LCPK) project was one of the most talked about events this year among the architectural community in Thailand. The process began as a nation-wide competition and resulted in the selection of five final design teams. Architectkidd joined the team led by landscape architects and urban designers Shma. Working together with Plan (architecture), Somdoon […]
A Different Kind of Food Court
Architectkidd was recently commissioned by the food management company Fooditude to develop a food court for a new mega-shopping complex (40,000+ sqm) outside of Bangkok. With this project, we asked: Is it possible to introduce some aspects of a public space within the strict boundaries of a commercial shopping environment? As fixtures in a shopping […]
Can Architecture Compete with Advertising?
There are many advertising billboards in Bangkok. Driving around in the city, it often seems that there are more billboards than buildings along the streets. Some say that the dominance of these oversized signs has detrimental effects on architecture and the urban environment. But there is no doubt that the revenue-generating potential of large-scale advertising […]
Wind Generated Architecture
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 not unlike how […]
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Thailand & Venice Architecture Biennale
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, the Thai competition […]
Deep Patterns
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 of the […]
Thai Parliament Competition
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 that are subservient […]
Integrated Ceiling System
A full-scale mockup of our design for an integrated ceiling solution has been completed. The objective was to develop a new ceiling that can accommodate different functional systems of an office building, while maximizing vertical height and daylight reflection. We first mapped out the existing ceiling condition of the office space, which covered 5000 square […]
