“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. […]
Projects in Process
Big White Forms
The new Caffè D´Oro retail shop is nearly complete and will open to the public soon. The first shop based on Architectkidd’s new design will be located in Nakhon Ratchasima outside of Bangkok. In the meantime, take a look at photos that Luke shot during the fabrication of the plaster form at the GEL factory. […]
Mass Customized Architecture
As a stand-alone retail outlet, the new Caffe D’Oro shop was designed to be produced and installed in many locations in Thailand. At the same time, Architectkidd was interested in developing a material solution that would be unique, tactile and recognizable to users and the brand. We developed our technique by adapting a material used […]
Introducing the New D’Oro
Caffè D´Oro is a home-grown success story, with over 70 retail shops throughout Thailand. The coffee brand not only sells beverages but also roasts and supplies coffee beans from its plantations in Northern Thailand. Architectkidd has been commissioned to develop new retail shops for Caffè D´Oro. Working closely with the D’Oro team, we have been […]
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 […]
Polymer Building Skins
During the development of the Bridgestone Pavilion, Architectkidd was able to study a variety of polymer materials. While not all materials made it to the final construction, we believe that taking an “iterative” process is beneficial. By developing a “test & review” approach, results from mockups, models and prototypes led the project team from one […]
Digital + Manual Construction
As a showcase for emerging technologies, Architectkidd had the opportunity to explore some new ideas in the Bridgestone Pavilion for the BOI Fair. Instead of the typical building design process – starting with a horizontal, 2-dimensional floor plane, then extruding walls to create an rectilinear building form – we were interested in attempting to create […]
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 […]
Reason #8 to be in Thailand: Kirimaya
To mark the beginning of the new year, Wallpaper Thailand came up with their “Top 20” list for 2012. The list aims to showcase some of the latest design and fashion events and projects coming up in the year. Architectkidd’s design for Kirimaya Residence K01 has been selected as one of the featured projects to […]
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 […]
Cantilever Spaces
At Architectkidd, we think each material has its own unique properties that need to be considered to realize its potential in architecture. For the design of the Kirimaya House, which is currently under construction, we certainly became more aware of the properties found in structural steel. With the efforts of structural designers Boonsaeng Siriratchuwong and […]
Steel Techniques
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 seemed to […]
Sound Wave: Hard Rock Facade
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 sound into […]
Kirimaya Residence
Construction is now underway for the design of a private residence in Kirimaya. The project, located in Khao Yai, is about 150 km north east of Bangkok. With its vast and open spaces, the site challenged Architectkidd to reconsider typical house constructions using vertically repetitive structures and systems. Compared to a house design that is […]
Old Wood Details
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 a stage […]
Bangkok Graffiti
Three Bangkok street artists are currently exhibiting their work at the Hard Rock Cafe in Siam Square. The event is part of Hard Rock Cafe’s building renovation which is now underway. This “Graffiti” event was organized as a competition for Bangkok street artists with the goal to tell the story of Hard Rock as they […]
Library for a Monastery
Architectkidd has collaborated with designer Prinda Puranananda to develop a small library building in a Buddhist monastery in Chiangrai. 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 […]
Vertical Teak
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 extend over […]
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 […]
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 […]
