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Hometropolis Client: Private 250K GBP, Completed (Stage A-L) 300 sqm, Bangkok, 2003-2005 Private residence in city centre was designed to accommodate domestic and work/business space. Brief specified future expansion desirable resulting in cantilevered beams and duct space that can be shared with expanded units.

Project cost calculated in Thai Baht according to local market cost models converted into GBP.

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The house was designed for a couple and is provided with options for further expansion to accommodate more family members and work/business space. Next phase, Hometropolis II, has been planned for the reserved adjacent plot.

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Hometropolis

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Shared Court Shared Court

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Common Green

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Shared Court 180’ Shared Court

Courtyard Housing Design competition, On-line exhibition Portland, Oregon, 2007

www.courtyardhousing.org/entrieseastern.html

The ‘weaving’ concept creates a sustainable net of densely shared space.

In housing environments the requirements of privacy and social interaction must be balanced so that a sense of individual ownership exists alongside neighbourhood security.

External, internal and in-between spaces of housing units are continuous ‘threads’ of sharing possibilities.

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1 Living & Dining +10” 6 Master Bedroom +19’ 2” 1a Front porch +6” 7 Bedroom +19’2” 2 Kitchen +10” 8 Roof garden +28’ 4” 3 Front terrace +5’ 6” 9 Storage/machine room +28’ 4” 4 Parking space 6” 10 Luandry/ etc. +28’ 4” 5 Study/multipurpose +10’ (Reference level from Shared court level)

Courtyard Housing Space is squeezed, twisted, shifted, and overlapped at the local scale of a unit and continues to intertwine at the global scale of plots. Individual characters of housing units are attained through tenants’ choices of materials and the locations of units in the system.Individual sharing space and housing units weave and tie together to form the ‘fabric of the scheme.

Rain water South sun

Wind trap

Privacy Solar cell & machine room Common Green

Winter wind

System feed

Shared court

Water tank

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North elevations

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South elevations Shared Court side

Aluminium

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Courtyard Housing

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Activity space

Meeting space

Courtyard Housing

Housing units’ entrance

Pedestrian entrance

Common Green Space

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A - New two four-stories houses B - Renovated four-stories house C - New two-stories service building

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Private residences Client: Private 500k GBP, Planning permission package (Stage A-K) 890 sqm (A), 545 sqm (B), 447 sqm (C) Bangkok, 2006-2007

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Two independent four-stories houses are united under one roof responding to concepts of extended family living. The two houses sit in a living compound with a newly renovated four-stories house and a new two-stories serviced building.

The two houses are designed to have the same functional programmes with a shared large living area on the ground and first floors. Natural ventilation flows through the shared double-height space between the two houses which creates more view points, allows heat to escape and becomes a reference point that marks the start and the end of each house.

Project cost calculated in Thai Baht according to local market cost models converted into GBP.

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2nd

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Private residences 3rd

Roof

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Private residences Safedeck 0.57 mm metal sheet 240mm profile Steel truss with rust-proof coating, Detail in structural engineering drawings

Snap-on teak panels 1"x 6" Polished 1mm stainless steel sheet

Safedeck 0.57 mm metal sheet 240mm profile Spray-on insulation, chemical bond

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Southeast corner

South facade detail

Private residences

Space between two houses

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Private residences

1st floor terrace - stairs - backyard

Teak handle 2"x4"

Stainless steel railing 2"x2"

Wood vinyl floor board 1"x2" 2mm steel plate with rust-proof coating Matt-finished stainless steel casing I-beam Steel frame with rust-proof coating paint I-beam

Hollow steel tube with rust-proof coating paint

Steel plate with rust-proof coating paint RC foundation cap

RC pile

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1st floor terrace - stairs - backyard

Atrium space between two houses

Private residences

From backyard

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Private residences Client: Private 450k GBP, Planning permission package (Stage A-D) 1160 sqm Bangkok, 2007-2008 A three-bedroom house completed with indoor tropical garden, swimming pool, home office and a service quarter was designed to take full advantage of its suburban location where open space is reserved on the east side of the house. The west elevation acts as the ‘shield’ against the strong sun and noise from the common area of the housing estate.

Future expansion of two more bedrooms can be incorporated within the shield toward the back of the house.

Project cost calculated in Thai Baht according to local market cost models converted into GBP.

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View analysis

Private residences

Ground floor

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First floor

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Private residences

Second floor

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Private residences

South elevation

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Private residences

East elevation

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Private residences

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Pool Garden

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The building in urban context and its influence on the spatial configurations of the apartments

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Apartment-Loft building

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Design competition, On-line exhibition San Isidro, Lima, 2007

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The orientation of the building is towards an ancient pyramid in the city.

Design of apartments takes advantage of the orientation while answering to popular ‘loft’ lifestyle in Lima.The design of the building considers preserving order and vista corridor of neighbouring buildings on one side while introducing unusual mass at the corner of the urban block.The design offers varieties of room types both one-floor and two-floor apartments.

All rooms have view to streets and the pyramid. 22 out of 28 units have direct and panoramic views toward the Inca shrine. The communal space on top of the building commands 360 degree view of the city.

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The loft living with strong character and reference to the unique element of contemporary community and historical pride. The building takes the maximum advantage of its location and visual link to the pyramid, Huaca Huallamarca.

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Apartment-Loft building The massing of the building response to the street in terms of open space to the sky as well as the pollution concerns. Building B is tilted upward to create a better view from apartments and lessen the noise and air pollution impact on Jorge Basadre Avenue. Building A marks the boundary of the site and becomes landmark on the streetscape.

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Pyramid axis

Pyramid axis + common facilities

Pyramid axis + common facilities + two-floor apartments

Pyramid axis + common facilities + all apartments

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Internal corridor divides the two buildings and in the same time unite them to the main circulation core and the view toward the pyramid.The linkage between buildings, apartments, Inca shrine and urban scape are brought together both around the perimeter and deep into the heart of the buildings.

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Apartment-Loft building The structure of the circulation generates an integrated front and back parts of the building.The link brings both privacy to living units by distributing entrances of living units on two spines of circulation.

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Pool +27.00 Water tank Roof garden+24.00

8th floor +21.20

7th floor +18.40

6th floor +15.60

5th floor +12.80

Jorge Basadre Ave.

4th floor +10.00

3rd floor +7.20

2nd floor +4.40

1st floor +1.60 Lobby&office -090 Basement 1 -3.00 Bsement 2 -5.10

Apartment-Loft building The circulation promotes communal sense with its location and great view toward the Inca shrine. The main circulation core provides the support to all building systems and garbage management while the diagonal ‘Inca’ corridor provides dramatic access to the living units.

Pool +27.00

Roof garden+24.00

8th floor +21.20

7th floor +18.40

6th floor +15.60

5th floor +12.80

Los Cipreses street

4th floor +10.00

3rd floor +7.20

2nd floor +4.40

1st floor +1.60 Lobby&office -090 Basement 1 -3.00 Bsement 2 -5.10

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heat ventilation

ventilation

ventilation

Apartment-Loft building Inspired by the Inca shrine, the facade system is designed to lessen the noise and heat through its pyramidal shape.The gap between the ‘pyramidal skin’ and the living unit’s wall provides thermal insulation which circulates heat near the building surface upward as well as acting as sun shading device.

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Pool/roof garden

Apartment - view towards side street

Apartment-Loft building

Apartment - view towards the pyramid

Apartment - view towards the front

Pedestrian entrance from sidewalk

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Evolutionary planning & Landmarks

Housing Estate Client: Hathairaj Estate 4.5m GBP, Master planning & Design development (Stage A - C) 135,000 sqm, Bangkok, 2004 The project is planned and designed for middle-upper income inhabitants. The site is located in the up-and-coming area of the city.

The design of the master plan is influenced by space of real communities which have evolved over time. As a result, the estate contains rich spatial varieties in the shapes of land plots and spatial configurations of each living cluster. Each plot and each living cluster influences space of the next one. These qualities establish the uniqueness of the development and give the estate dynamic spatial sequences that promote the sense of belonging within and between communities.

Project cost calculated in Thai Baht according to local market cost models converted into GBP.

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Backyard

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Housing Estate Six clusters of communities and common facilities are planned to be built in phases compatible to the investment plan and demands.The sizes and numbers of land plots available are guided by the feasible study which suggested two appropriate sizes: 240sqm (88 plots) and 400 sqm (107 plots).

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Land plots at the corners are treated as prime spots where one-off bespoke house designs are offered. These corner spaces and architecture become landmarks which give special characters to the whole development in a similar way to the way squares and public buildings do for urban space.Road layout is also planned to integrate with further development to the north and west sides of the site. The final phase will use the land in front of the development for mixed-use and retail facilities which serve the communities in the estate and integrate with the existing urban fabric of commercial streets.

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Terrace

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Other residential projects

Apartment conversion

Historic conservation

Rapit Suvanajata

Five-bedroom house

Roof pavilion extension

Other residential projects House renovation

Three-bedroom house

Rapit Suvanajata

Town house

Hometropolis II

Other residential projects Three-bedroom house

Three-bedroom house

Rapit Suvanajata Architects Council of Thailand Association of Siamese Architects,Thailand Architect Registration Board, UK Royal Institute of British Architects, UK Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK Institute for Sustainability, UK PhD (Design strategies, Bartlett, London) M.Arch (Pratt Institute, New York) B.Arch (Chulalongkorn, Bangkok)

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