May 2018: Located 200 km west of Bangkok, Hua Hin is a resort town where people go to escape the big city. Architectkidd’s design for the Palayana Hotel in Hua Hin aims to maximize its natural qualities and to create a place to escape from the chaos of urban life. The Palayana tasked Architectkidd to […]
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Play Based Architecture
March 2018: Architectkidd’s design for the Apple Tree Kindergarten is a new school for children between the ages of 1.5 to 5 years. The school aims to foster a positive and stimulating environment that inspires and enables holistic development through play-based learning. Simplicity, Clarity and User-Friendliness were the key concepts of Architectkidd’s design. The building […]
Permeable Shopping Center
April 2017: As part of a wider urban plan for the surrounding area in Bangkok, Architectkidd renovated a retail development occupying a large space at the busy intersection in the city. Taking an opportunity to question the typical closed “big box” model of shopping centers, the design aimed to create a more dynamic presence as […]
Live Wires
February 2016: Architectkidd has completed Now 26, a building using steel tubing as its primary material. The building – a production studio and offices for the television station Now 26 – is a renovation of an existing structure. During the initial stage of the project, the removal of the old cladding exposed the existing steel structure […]
Essence in an Eatery
October 2015: “ABC represents the starting point, the most basic essence of eating,” according to restaurateur Pakamon “Nina” Somboonvechakarn. The goal is to combine creativity along with high-quality ingredients to give taste and nutrition to the menu. For the design of the ABC Eatery, Architectkidd devised various techniques to filter natural light into the interior space. […]
Telescopic Spaces
October 2015: Architectkidd has completed the flagship store for a fashion hand bag label. With this retail design in Bangkok, the aim was to challenge some of the limitations posed by conventional spaces. Instead of a fixed layout, the design is composed of three rectangular frames that form the overall enclosure. These frames are nested […]
Curved Steel Fabrications
February 2015: For a recent interior design project, Architectkidd designed a steel screen for the lobby of a high rise residential building complex. The intricate pattern is made from steel plates that were individually curved. Each of the plates were then completed with a hand-finished copper coating. The challenge during the fabrication was bending the steel […]
Bangkok Flat
February 2015: This project is a design of an apartment unit in an early-generation residential high-rise in Bangkok. The design makes use of existing attributes & found conditions. The building’s location, while in the middle of the city, is away from the main roads and adjacent to one of Bangkok’s largest waterways, or ‘klongs’. As a […]
Steel Techniques
August 2011: The Architectkidd team is currently working on a project that involves designing with steel in construction and detailing. So during a review of a full-scale mockup that is in progress, several Architectkidd designers visited a steel fabrication factory in Pathum Thani, on the northern outskirts of Bangkok. The type of projects this factory […]
Sound Wave: Hard Rock Facade
July 2011: The design for the new Hard Rock Cafe in Bangkok will mark a new approach for the global Hard Rock brand. This is probably most dynamically expressed in the facade design of the building’s exterior. For Architectkidd, the starting point for this facade design were the shapes, rhythms and structures of sound. Interpreting […]
Old Wood Details
June 2011: Construction is nearly complete for the new Hard Rock Cafe restaurant in Bangkok. This project is a renovation of an existing building structure in Siam Square, and one of the aspects that Architectkidd and designer Prinda Puranananda focused on during the construction was about re-using materials. In the interior, there will be […]
Hand Made Facades
July 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 hand-made […]
Vertical Teak
June 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 will […]
Smooth Reception
March 2009: The Thai Obayashi wood reception counter is now installed in the company’s headquarters building on Rachadamri Road. This counter is the final piece for this project, which involves the renovation of the office building’s interior spaces. What was interesting for us was that there was a high level of collaboration and experimentation compared to other commercial projects. In […]
Office Light Boxes
November 2008: For the renovation for one division of the Thai Oil Group in Bangkok, we designed oversized “Light Boxes” to provide appropriate lighting for office functions without having to remove the existing ceiling. Share on Facebook
Seamless Lobby Spaces
October 2008: Using white polymer panels, concealed LEDs, fiber optics and stretched fabric, we were able to resurface the elevator lobbies and public areas of the Thai Obayashi office building and transform them into seamless spaces. Share on Facebook
Green Walls
May 2008: The headquarters for Goodwill has been completed. The building provides a new workplace environment for administrative staff and engineers who build and maintain the industrial kitchen equipment that the company provides to its clients. In developing the design for the workplace environment, we studied the possibilities for applying soft landscape for every architectural surface of this building. We developed details to provide […]
Concrete Entrances
May 2008: Concrete is a material that has latent potential in Thailand. If we understand the limitations of how it is currently used in practice, we can then explore other advantages, such as its plastic and sculptural characteristics. For the Goodwill Headquarters building, we designed a curved stair used for the office entrance. Share on […]