DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTURAL
SELECTED WORKS 2012/16
HENG APHIR
AT H I R A N
Hi, I’m Heng. My name is Kritjarruwat Aphirathiran. I graduated from Chulalongkorn University with Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 2016. I am very interested in 3D modeling and Maxwell Rendering. I’m a type of person who always want to learn something new, like when I was in my second year, there is a professor who taught me a Maxwell Rendering that changed my life forever. It’s really hard from the start, but I really enjoy studying it. When I was a little, my childhood dream is to build my own house with my own desgn. So, that is why I chose to study in design and architecture. The rest of the story you can find it more from my journey through the work in my portfolio. Hope you enjoy it.
RESUME EDUCATION 2012-2016
SKILLS Bachelor of Science in Architecture School: Chulalongkorn University Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Characteristics Leadership Communication
EXPERIENCE
Organization Responsibility
2015
2014
2014
2013
Structural Study at Beijing, China Name: Olympic Stadium Location: Chaoyang Qu, Beijing, China Objective: Study structure and system of stadium Design for Chonnabot Community Name: Chonnabot School Location: Chonnabot, Khonkant, Thailand Objective: Design new contemporary canteen DEX Social Rifting Name: Design Experimentation Workshop Location: Bangkok, Thailand Objective: Creating 3D experience through oculus rift Design for Bungkarn Community Name: Bungkarn Community School Location: Bungkarn, Nongkrai, Thailand Objective: Design a new colorful walkway to canteen
Time Keeping
Professional Photoshop CS6 Illustrator CS6 InDesign CS6 Rhinoceros 5 Maxwell Render AutoCad 2015
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Table of Contents 01. FLAGSHIP STORE 02. ELEMENTAL CONSTRUCTION 03. COLLECTIVE HABITAT 04. RIVER CONNECTION 05. OLYMPIC STADIUM 06. ANTHROPOCENE HIPSTERS 07. SOCIAL RIFTING 08. DESIGN & BUILD I 09. DESIGN & BUILD II
01 FLAGSHIP STORE Gaggan Progressive Indian Cuisine Restaurant
Gaggan — an indian progressive cuisine. The restaurant make use of molecular gastronomy which is a new way of cooking, combining science with cooking, making food not just a food, but “Art”. For Gaggan, eating equals to experience. It is an experience that makes you remember through senses. The first thing that would pop up in your head when you hear the word “Molecular Gastronomy” is DECONSTRUCTION. Deconstruction is the process of how food gets transformed from something we are familiar with into something unfamiliar, but we can still sense what the thing is. So, I have applied this concept of ‘deconstruction’ of food with architecture. Similar to food, I have changed the shape inside the shophouse. If you view from outside, you will recognize it as a shophouse, but when you enter inside, you will get a new experience and new feelings from its shape that has almost distorred completely from what you thought. However, we may be able to read from the environment inside, the “sine qua non” — that essential characteristic of shop-houses like columns, floor, or slap. The inside space will be divided into five sections accroding to the human senses: hear, sight, taste, touch, and smell.
ALL THE FIVE SENSES 01 Center Space for “Tasting”
Familiarity
Tasting
In comparing arhitecture with food, the cup of yogurt is something that everyone is familiar with, like a shop house that we can fi nd everywhere in Bangkok which can represent a concept of repitition and mass production
When we look inside the architecture or the main ingredient of some specic food, we can realize its ‘taste’ or function by seeing its ‘structure’. Hence, the tasting of food can make them feel more deeper and understand by the truth part or its ‘taste’
Processing
Deconstruction
This part show the relationship and combinitoin between science and food or even architecture in order to create an unseen experience, thus, this is something ‘new’ in term of food and also display its unnormal by using arhitectural strucutre
Deconstruction is recreating a ‘new’ thing by the ‘old’ thing or ‘fimiliar’ thing to become ‘unfimilar’ or ‘new’ expreriencing by architecture as a tool of communication and make people can feel it by their four sense.
02 Room of Echo “Sound� It is a place we are covered by dome structure, making us hear sounds more precisely.
03 High Level for a best “Vision� It is where we can have a wide-vision from the location, seeing everything clearly.
04 Space for “Touching� Built-in furniture which will allow customer to actually touch the structures, using it as tables, or chairs.
05 The Ingredients of “Smell� Customer will be surrounded with hydroponic grass, which enable customers to get the fresh smell.
EXPLODED DIAGRAM
3rd Floor of Voice
2nd Floor of Sight In this floor is showing the sense of hearing, auditory perception. Where you can hear the sound clearly.
In this floor is showing the sense of sight. Even it is not a highest floor, but in this floor is where you can see the more visualize by the frame that create by the fabric structure.
1st Floor of Touch
Ground Floor of Smell In this oor is showing the sense of touch, that the customer come they will feel the material that built-in to the space. It will contrast between the feeling of old shop-house and the space of new shop-house.
In this oor is showing the sense of smell, It is surround by the green space which is a part of cooking materials. It also make you feel more comfortable because of the surrounding with the nature.
02 ELEMENTAL CONSTRUCTION Column + Beam x Wall
In elemental structure phase is divided into three parts: column, beam and wall. It is the most common structure of most buildings around the world. Mostly, people will think about the shape of the building first, and then the details of the element. But we think in the opposite way from the inside out, thinking about the structure first and linked all these three together to create something new. In the column phase we tried to think of something new as a column that has two parts, one to receive the load and other to release, which has the receptor at the center to control all of the structure. It uses the steel frame to bend it into a sub structure of trianglar shape to make it even stronger. In the beam phase uses the same idea of the column and to adapt/link these two structures together. The column is actually transformed into a beam which has three legs to recieve the load from the top. All the beam will join each other at the center area of each to divide the load equally, working like a grid system of an alabric pattern. The bottom part will be changed into a concrete structure to make it strong eneough to recieve the load from above. The wall phase is used to create a boundary in-between that makes it a “space”. As in the beam part, it can create large space from connecting all the beams together, but in this is to insert the wall that can be opened/closed in order for the user to adapt the space to make it larger by merging the small spaces by opening the wall, or closing the wall to make a small space for more privacy.
COLUMN DETAIL
TOP PLAN DRAWING
1.00M
It is forming by a small triangle and use joint to connect to each other to form a big structure of triangle, and the concept of this form is to use the 1.00M
This is showing how the three structure are
flip triangle to take the load from the top and merge down to the center point pass through to another
connected to each other by one single point in the center
triangle from the meeting point and it will release
and the ring is holding the top structure and release the
the load to the ground.
load to the receptor at the bottom. Then it repeat the same method from top floor down to the first floor which change the material of the receptor from the steel to
0.04M
SECTION DRAWING
concrete which it can take the load of the whole building. 3.00M
Square Steel 2mm
STEEL ASSEMBLAGE
Triangle Steel 2mm
1.40M
STEEL 2cm
STEEL HOLDING RING
1.00M
SCREW
0.8cm
STEEL RECEPTOR
use different material because the load is getting heaver from the top to bottom. So, I use a reinforce concrete that fill in the triangle shape instead of steel structure so it can take more weight than the Concrete
The detail drawing it is showing how thw joint of the steel structures are join together. Here it is using the circle receptor to hold the pieces of rectangle steel and use the scew to lock it down to form the big triangular structure.
top level.
BEAM DETAIL
TOP PLAN DRAWING
This is the explode axonmetric of my structure. It compose of three main structure, which are receptor, column, and beam. It has been develop from the previous project from the single column to change/adapt it to take a part as a receptor to take load of the beam. It is connected to each other my the hole of each structure that lock all these three together and the force will take from top down to the bottom. Carbon Fiber, Beam 6m
4m
Carbon Fiber, Column
Beam, it is the combine of three triangle and act itself as a base holder to take the load of the slap and things above it, and it will be even stronger when there are more of beam that face each other to share and support the whold building. 3.64m
ELEVATION DRAWING Concrete, Receptor
4.31m
3.48m
Receptor, here is the bottom part of all three structure. It is ďŹ ll with concrete to make it stronge enough to take the weight from above. There is a hole in the top center to carry the column.
1.44m
WALL DETAIL
TOP PLAN DRAWING
Here it showing the conceptual idea of the wall that be a part of the column and it start to separate till the end of beam. This openning it can create the light shading freely because of itself is can spin around.
In this plan drawing it showing 3 dierent form of wall that can be adject the openning to receive the light and ventilation freely. So, it can be create the privacy space by closing all, public by open all, or both by adject the angle of the openning.
Glass Slap
Frosted Glass
C-Channel Rail
This openning it can actually rotate in 360Ëš arounf. So, it can create a sense of disappear from eye sight. Because the surface of the wall will get decreasing when it start rotating.
ELEVATION DRAWING 14.00m
7.00m
Carbon Fiber Composite
1.55m
03 COLLECTIVE HABITAT The Litheness at Silom
Previously from the elemental construction, this one uses the same idea from the inside-out and also uses some parts of the wall to create a unit, which then spreads out as a one system called Litheness. In the near future of the business world, Bangkok will be one of the most powerful country where many people would like to come and live in Bangkok --to study and learn the culture to blend into the city. It will be the center of the whole business transctions all around the world. Silom is one of the most outstanding business district in Thailand, there are so many aspects that could be found in this site. Even shopping malls, various type of restaurants, hospitals, hotels, Lumpini Park, public transports, and business area. The idea is to create a space which can fit different types of users, some may want to have a one large room, or some wants to have more privacy. So, it come to the word “flexibility” which form one unit that can be changed/adapted accroding to the user. The flexibility is used to adapt the form not only one, but can also be changed by the user that will come and live in this unite. It can be adapted to three forms depending on the user’s usage: 1. It can provide the user the view to the outside and get the natural light. 2. It shows the function that combines all the rooms together into one. 3. It shows the individual living in the room to provide the private space. The space is divided into three sessions. The first is the ground level, which is the shopping area that would make the space blend into the culture of the site, and not to make it outstanding or cause much discontinuity to the environment. Second is the rooftop gardening that I tried to make a connection to the site. In the section you can see that the garden level will connect to the rooftop of the other building, which will act as a skywalk that provides the green space all the way to the BTS. Third is housing, I have provided 8 units for each floor. They all share one visual contact at the center, which allowed them to see the garden level and it can be divided into semi sharing that each four units will have the semi center that people can come and dine together as a family unit, however, if someone finds it uncomfortable, they can also choose to close the boundary.
THE LITHENESS CONDOMINUM SILOM SOI 6
Functionality Start by the unite, the main concept of this inhabitat is to merge the dierent culture and tradition together in one place. So, I have been thinking about a space that can be adapt accroding to the user to let them choose, whenver to close or open the space by themselve. Inside the unite will surrounded by a circular wall that serve the function of enclosure the partition.
Rendering of the overall unit and the arrangement of the furniture.
View - it provide the inhabitant to adject the partition for the city view.
Joint - this is one of the exibility form that it will connect all the room together.
Separate - it is the indivitual zone that keep the privacy.
The Litheness
FACADE DESIGN The glass facade acts as a double protection that will block the heat ow to the unit and it can rotate according to the user’s use. The outside windows are the facade and the inside windows are the sliding door. The gap between the two is the terrace that the user can use to walk and glance outside the windows while getting the sunlight.
The Litheness
INTERIOR SPACE The space consists of 8 units per oor, and between the 4 units is a space that provides for the planting. This is the activity that will let the users come out and join the activity. Furthermore, there are big opening spaces at the center that enables a visual link to one point. It also can be exible to the user because the space can be opened or closeed up to permission of that user.
The Litheness
GROUND AREA The 5-story shophouse is the facility of the space that hosts restaurants and coee shops. It also acts as a transition space to the site because the site is full of shophouses and restaurants. So, this will be the way to connect the social aspects to the space to mix it as one place, and not too isolated to the surrounding areas.
The Litheness
ROOFTOP SKYWALK This is the gardening level, which is connected to the other rooftop of the neighbors, and it is the transition of the building to the side. It is also a public park which allows the outsiders to use it and walk like a skywalk to the BTS. It acts as a channel that connects one end to another end of the soi.
LONG SECTION DRAWING
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN
GARDEN FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
04 RIVER CONNECTION Tourist Information Center
The Second River Block site begins from Wachira Hospital on the North and ends at Siriraj Hospital in the South, including many Buddhist and Christian communities, schools, and tourist destinations especially on Phra Atit Road and KaoSan Road. There are three bridges in the Block: Krungthonburi Bridge (Sunghee Bridge), Rama VII Bridge, and Pra Pinklao Bridge. Regarding the Acceleration of Waterway Usage in the upcoming years, Thailand is a prospective country that will soon shift from a developing country that focuses its production mainly on primary and secondary sectors, which refers to the extraction of raw materials and the manufacturing of products into a more developed country which focuses its production on tertiary sector, or the commercial services that satisfy people’s wants and needs such as insurance, transport, advertising, and service that Thailand is famously renowned for—tourism. The aim for this river craft is to let the tourists experience the endlessness of traveling along the Chao Phraya River, with the design of the boat that in circular to make no obstacle for viewing out to see the beautiful view along the river. This boat has two layers which is the outer and inner part, allowing the tourist to walk freely on the boat and change the perception of their viewing. What makes this special is that the center keeps rotating but very slowly that the tourist can't even notice, but the good thing is that even they stand in the same place, the viewing that they receive keeps changing through the passage of time. The terminal is to be the landmark for people that mainly focus on the tourist that comes to Bangkok for the ďŹ rst time, or wanted to get the idea or guidelines for traveling in Bangkok, and also propose the new plaza at the three-junction space for the people to come here to rest in the green area. There is also a surface that connects both side of the plaza to the terminal at the center. For the riverside, there is a riverside walk that provides a new route for walking. The berth is connected to transportation docking at the river for people to transport easiler. There are four programs at the berth, which are: contour step sitting, bike lane, walking plateform, and transportation.
River Craft Promenade Zone In this area the tourist can freely walk around the from the outer ring to the main core, and there are three connection to the center. The special to this area is thta it also connect to the gear that can slowly rotate the view around the city river along the Chao Phraya River. So, people can enjoy the view that automatically change. At the center zone it also a countour inorder to not let people blocking each other view of perception.
Resting Zone This zone is the deep down 1st level that is a place for tourist to have a sit and have a viewing out from the windows. It can be tajen about 8 people with a space to use not so dense. The tourist can get down to here by using a spiral starcase at center to get here. Inside here is creating a social interact for the tourist because of the space is about 6 meter in diamenter and they can have a conversation in here. And there is a blank space for people to stand and watch.
Machine Zone This part is turbine engine blade that control the direction of where the ship will go, it place under the water and there is a engine there so when it going forward it will only open two front turbine and when it want to turn, it will open the side turbine to make this circular ship to rotate. This part of engine is connect to the controller room that will make this ship to travel along the river freely by using the technology of open and close the turbine.
Controller Zone In this zone is the controller zone that it control all the machine of this circular ship . It place at under the resting zone. It is a private space for captian and stu to get in here , there is a big screen for captian to look around the river road and it the ship to get in the trace and prevent from the dangerouse that can occour on the river side. The space inside here is around 3.5 meter in diameter. So, it can not hold a lot of people inside this space, it a place for work.
River Craft Self-Navigation 3rd oor is self-navigation, which will provide the device and multi-media for the tourist to use and selected all by their own.
Information Center 1st oor tourist can come and ask the information directly from here, there will be people that standby ready for helping out the tourist anytime.
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Exhibition Space 11
4th lor is exhibition room, that will create a space showing the interesting place all along the Bangkok and activity that fun for the toursit.
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Booking Tour 5
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2nd oor is for the booking tour for them to booking the tour and date to travel along the Bangkok by using a boat along the Chao Paya.
Tourist Information Center
VIEW FROM RIVER
This terminal is showing the connection from the river to the terminal and also connected to the main road. The terminal is located under the Pla Pin Klao Bridge, it is the landmark in Phra Ah Tid road. In which, when the tourist arrive they will come here to get the information for interesting places along Chao Phraya River. The terminal has the connection of two transportation systems—boat and car. Around the site, people can make a direct walk from berth to public bus stop. From the river view, I provided the riverside walk to the site, which is a new sidewalk for the local and foreigner people. They can use for this for walking along the river and also connects directly to the docking. Inside the terminal there are four levels, which are Information center, booking area, self-navigation, and exhibition space. The center of the terminal is linked to the surface, which is connecting to both side of plaza that placed at the three junction space. These plazas are the public areas that provide more green space to the site and lead the way to the terminal.
05 OLYMPIC STADIUM The Tennis Court
Side View
Olympics are the leading international sports event featuring summer and winter sport competitions, in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games is considered to be the world's foremost sports competition with more than 200 nations participating. It is held every four years, with the Summer and Winter Games alternating by occurring every four years but two years apart. In 2000 Bangkok failed in its bid to host the 2008 Games by not making into the IOC’s short list. Priorities were established for a future bid involved investing and upgrading Sport and Transport Infrastructure. With the introdution of new transport infrastructure coupled with the experience gained hosting 6 SEA Games (1959, 1967, 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2007) 4 Asian Games (1966, 1970, 1978 and 1998) and the 2007 Summer Universiade, by 2020 Bangkok will be more than ready to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024 or 2028. So, in this semester we are trying to propose the probable site for Bangkok Olympic Games. Based on the research, it seems that Queen Sirikit Park is one of the best choice to indicate the Olympic stadium (small one), which can fit to four stadiums with an Olympic park inside.
Front View
Since we would like to take this place as a host, we also want to help improve the surrounding to make it easier to access both public transport and private car by creating a new cut way inside the park. This will not only improve the site, but also reduce the crowded traffic around the site as well. The concept for the stadium is based on the accessibility to the site, which is accessible from 3 places, from: (1) the park; (2) the north access; (3) the south access. From this, the stadium has been distorted according to the access line, which will make the stadium can be visible from all direction.
Section Cut
Transformed Barcelona The city had become an industrial backwater under the long rule of General Franco, who was perhaps angry at the city's Catalan population for its resistance during the Spanish Civil War.The Olympics represented a significant effort to restructure the city. A report on the economic impact of the Olympics by Ferran Brunet of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals the extent of the investment in infrastructure.
Paul Sant Jordi Study Model
Queen Sirikit Park The park is located in quite a center city surrounded by the business area. It provide a view out to the high-rise building at theeast side, which is very beautiful. Beside the park, there is Tabbaco company that has a plan to move out and extended the park to be one of the largest park in Bangkok. So, the site is very great tohost a olympic game not only the view, but also the accessibility of public transport by MRT and also a large area of parking.
Tennis Stadium
EXPLOED DIAGRAM It shows the structure of the stadium that uses the idea of triangulate structure to make it stronger and transparent from the outside. As you can see, the stadium is divided into two parts: 1. the main stadium to host any event 2. the commercial area, which when there is no event the stadium can still function all the time.
Tennis Stadium
THE ENTRANCE The entrance of the stadium has been lifted up to give a sense of welcoming the audience from the outside and also to merge with the environment from the outside. When there is an event, the space can be used to hold lots of people before the game begins, but when there is none, people can still come in to the stadium and use the ramp to go to the upper level to have a viewing out to the park from a high level.
Tennis Stadium
ATRIUM SPACE In this zone, there will be a commercial area that people can buy food or sit before the game starts. The beneďŹ t of the atrium space is to bring the natural light to the area to make the place more bright and natural. During/After the game, this area will still function as a commercial space, because it is an everyday-use for both local people that live nearby and the audience.
Tennis Stadium
MAIN COURT The main tennis stadium, during the Olympic games, it will host as a main tennis court to challenge for the 1st prize. The design of the stadium is to receive the maximum usage of sunlight from the rooftop. After the game, this stadium can host any event, such as concert, since the space at the center can be fold back to get more space.
06 ANTHROPOCENE HIPSTERS Urban Minning
Nowadays, waste product is a very common problem across the world. Each year, we produce about 6.7 million tons of food waste and other waste such as plastic and milk box. If we keep overlooking these problems, it may cause a big problem to some certain area and will start to fade away from the surroundings and eventually become an undeveloped area. So, the community I choose is Wat Phatum Wanaram, it sits between Siam Paragon and Central World, which is the very centre area of Bangkok. Right now this community has been overlooked by other people because of an informal organization with disordered sites of waste disposal, creating unsanitary and unhygienic appeals to outsiders. To help people in the community is to turn the community into a street market with an intervention idea of recycling the material, and it also helps reduce the percentage of the waste and can turn it into an energy for the community, together with changing the appearance of it by using a “Biogass & Compression System”. These prototype not only helps the community in terms of commercialization of cheap food, but also generate the energy and built-material for the construction process such as, roof panel, wall panel. When the community started to earn more income, they can develop the structure vertically because of the easy construction that has been adjust inside the house from the start, the community can continue to build more housings and restaurants on top of the other houses, because of the limited space of the site. In the final outcome, the community has been developed into the new local intervention of a recycling, reuse, and regenerate, which could be applied to other areas as a reference and a study model of “Urban Mining”
CONTEXT ANALYSIS Wat Pathum Wanaram Community The community I choose is Wat Phatum Wanaram, it sit between Siam Paragon and Central World, which is very Centre area of Bangkok. Right now this community has been overlooked by other people because of an informal organization with disordered sites of waste disposal, creating an unsanitary and unhygienic appeal to outsiders. To help people in the community is to turn the community into a street market with an intervention idea of recycling the material, and it also help reduce the waste percentage. And I also see the potential of the site to be a shortcut to the other side, this could attract lots of people to come to the community not only for the cheap food, but also the site facility too.
SUPER�POWERING Wat Pathum Wanaram Community This community is having quite a strong customer base. Everyday there will be around 1,000 people from the surrounding come to eat cheap food here. So, we want to renovate the space starting by the house to adapt it to multi-function space for living and selling. By applying these prototypes of “Biogas and Compression” system, it would improve the community to serve the function of market and also the vertical development in the future. Shortly after the installation of the system, the community was able to receive more income from the flow of people that come into the community. This enables for the area's development in terms of size and economy.
DEFINED PROTOTYPE Functionality of “Biogass System� This diagram is showing the function of the adapted community that merges housing with marketing. The front of the house gives more privacy to the local people, while the back of the house acts as a market street on both sides. At the center between four houses are the biogas system that given the recycle energy to the houses. The concept is to re-use the old materials of the community together with new adaptation bring about the best experience for both local people and tourist that coming to the community.
DEFINED PROTOTYPE Movement of “Biogass System� The biogas system is coming up for cleaning up the community together with the help to improve the community and regenerate the power by the waste of the food produce. This will help the community looks more hygienic and would bring a lot more people to the inside to be a new street food at the Bangkok. All the food waste will be transferred into a pumping device, then it will be fermented in the tank, and after the fermentation process, it will produce the biogas and store in the balloon at the top. So, they can use these energy back again at the kitchen.
DEFINED PROTOTYPE Functionality of “Compress System” For another one is the compression system, it is used to create a tuff panel that can be used for the built construction, such as wall and roof in the community. This diagram is showing the function of the system of the houses together with the compression machine. The sculpture on top not only collects the sunlight but also acts as a shading device for the people living nearby. The idea of the system is to produce a recycle material to be used again in the community, and it also helps these people to produce the everyday use energy such as lighting and water to use inside the house.
DEFINED PROTOTYPE Movement of “Compress System” The compression machine is placed at the center of the community to produce the energy such as electricity, and to collect the rainwater to be used in the process of making a “tuff” material. We can use this material to replace, fix or build an external part of the building. The plastic waste will be sent into a spin tank to mix it together, then transfer to the center, after it is filled-up, the machine will compress all these waste to make it strong enough to use for later. It also collects the rainwater to use in the restroom and also for the solar panel that will produce the electricity for the house.
New Local Intervention
URBAN MINING
After applying those “Biogas and Compression” system, the community started to get more income and develop vertically, then the new extension part will be placed on top of the existing house to create an up-level structure across the community. It can be customized by the user, such as residential, or restaurant that are connected by the walkway. The tuff material will be used for the new construction part in the gathering space, riverside restaurant, and some other housing. In the final outcome, the community has been developed into the new local intervention of a recycling, reuse, and regenerate, which could be applied to other areas as a reference and a study model of “URBAN MINING”.
07 SOCIAL RIFTING Sound and Visual Simulation
Design Experimentation workshop, or DEX is a workshop format developed at INDA with the aim of promoting experimentation as a way of exploring architecture and related creative disciplines. DEX takes place in Bangkok during a two-week period in the beginning of January every year and is offered to all our third year students. This year INDA invited academics and professionals from all over the world with a wide array of different expertise offering workshops on topics such as tensile structures, virtual reality, animation, urbanism and street vending.
Oculus Rift DK 1 verion (no leap motion)
Razer Headset Kraken Gaming for Xbox One Dolby Digital 7.1
DEX.2 worked with the latest virtual reality devices to develop socially driven spatial events and was led by Fredrik Hellberg DEX coordinator at INDA, Nandi Nobell from KTH Stockholm and Mond Qu from Melbourne University. Social Rifiting is the new way for us to experience what we build. By using an oculus rift plus—the Unity program that work together as one system to let us play in real 3 dimensions. In this workshop, we are using a sound to take an important roll as a controller to human experience. So, we simulated the whole building of our faculty to create the same environment as the physical world. Then, we used the physical sound in a different level of the building, and in the visual world it represents the sound as a light to test the accuracy of the sound and direction. In the end, we created a shocking experience of the whole building collapsed into your human body. So, we can conclude that, if we are using the sound it will help increase the emotion and feeling of human sense in the particular environment.
Sound Card TRUST External Surround Sound Card Dolby Digital 5.1
Speakers Creative SBS A520 5.1 Desktop Speaker Dolby Digital 5.1 5 Speakers, 1 Sub-Woofer
Physical Effect Members Oculus DK1 Virtual
1 Rifter (volunteer for experiment) 4 physical sound generators Oculus DK1 It’s used as the virtual generater that player cdirectly sense from their 360 degree eye view.
Physical Sound Projecting
Physical Sound
Physical Sound
Shouting
You can create any kind of physical sound according to specific narrative. In this case, we use ‘shouting’ as the typical way to creating sound because it is the most effective way to create sound in the correct direction and also in the most natural way. Virtual Sound Moreover, we also use 5.1 surround speakers for creating an imaginated background sound for the virtual for example, rain , traffic , wind and so on. By this tools, we can generate more creative of sound and unlimited of virtual environment gengerating
Virtual Sound Speakers Dolby Digital 5.1
Simulation Effect Virtual Simation The sound take an important role for controlling human feeling and experience as the virtual generating so that if we could use the sound in very effective way we can really create enough ‘real’ feeling to the riftr and then we could actually see an abnormal experience. By using the Oculus and our sound generating system, we can create more reality of simulation world rather than any Oculus experiment.
Site Realistic / Simulation
Soft Sound
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For our physical site, we decide to use the court of CU Architecture Facalty as the experimental site because it is not only the big empty court but it also surrounded by the four building which can be used for generating the vertical sound in 3 dimentional direction
Loud Sound
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When people who stand in the middle heard the sound, he really can realize and face to a correct direction of the sound even the sound source is very far away. Thus, in this phisical space, we can play an unlimit kinds of sound and freely to set a location we like.
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Lighting will be also use as a tool for revealing people about the location of sound in virtual world and at the same time, it also represent the term of ‘unlocking information’ by using sound and light.
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In the end, we try to build up an unexpected environment and situation for rifter so we make a building collapse to the rifter which is not only make him excite but also be the most powerful representative of sound projecting and surrounding
08 DESIGN & BUILD I Beungkan Canteen Renovation
Design Build for Community, is a program co-sponsored by the International Program in Design and Architecture at Chulalongkorn University and Mitsubishi, Thailand. The annual program provides architectural improvements for schools in rural Thailand and provides students with the rare opportunity to work on a project from conceptual design through construction. During this process, students gain valuable hands-on experience while giving back to the community through the project. This is year we have been assigned to design a canteen for Beungkan School. The school’s principle wanted to create a new canteen to hold a large number of students and have a high quality of hygienic level for the teacher to cook the food and easily serve the student by using the same location of the old one. We have been to site to research for the surroundings and measurements that we can build. After the site visit, we brainstormed and sketched ideas for renovation. Above is an example of our sketch session. After deciding the best possible scenario, each team member worked on a preliminary design. With instructions from our instructor Pannasan Sombuntham , the team members polished their AutoCAD skills and were assigned their responsibilities and roles. An hour into administering, the team sketched their ideas. The main concept design for our canteen is not only to build a larger canteen but also want to create a learning space, by having a vertical gardening to let the student plant their own seed for learning and also use the for the meal. Also for the walkway, we have re-designed a colorful shading together with a sliding board for the student to pin their own work and drawing on the whiteboard that can be adjusted according to the user. This board can also be used for the school’s announcements.
Idea Sketches
Site Plan It is the master plan that show all the existing building and the new propose. With this we can see the scale of the overall program and direction from classroom to canteen. Along the way the student will pass through the new playground with would be interesting for them.
All Program In this axonometric of the whole school, it showing all program into 3 domension. As you can see the colorful walkway is attach to the exist of the classroom, which student will always have shade all the way and because Beungkan is have a high consecutive of rain. The canteen has been enlarge than the old one and more organized to ďŹ t more people.
New Canteen
Existing Class Room
Colorful Walkway
Existing Playground
Additional Playground
Day of Construction We have been helping out the worker by remove all the old strcture as much as we can, then we started to dig a hole for the foundation in the next process. Mostly, we are painting the steel structure, to hide all the rust on the steel and coated it with a water proof.
Beungkan School
THE CANTEEN Finally, the canteen has been done and the overall look of the canteen is most likely as we have designed. The ventilation is pretty good because of the height of the ceiling allows the wind to ow easily. All the students and teachers celebrated the party for the new canteen by inviting us and Mitsubishi group.
Beungkan School
SLIDING BOARD All the students enjoy this sliding board, some of them are drawing on the white board and some pinning their work to show it to other people. The colorful walkway is done very well, it also reects the color of poly material on the oor.
09 DESIGN & BUILD II Chonnabot New Canteen
Design Build for Community, is a program co-sponsored by the International Program in Design and Architecture at Chulalongkorn University and Mitsubishi, Thailand. The annual program provides architectural improvements for schools in rural Thailand and provides students with the rare opportunity to work on a project from conceptual design through construction. During this process, students gain valuable hands-on experience while giving back to the community through the project. This year, the Community School in Chonnabot, located in Khon Kaen Province, whose existing canteen has been damaged by years of flooding and termite infestation was selected. The project was to design a new canteen that incorporates a cooking, serving and dishwashing area for 260 students. The main concept of the canteen is derived from the roof shapes of vernacular Thai architecture and traditional cooling methods. The roof is oriented in such a way to provide the maximum amount of shade while allowing prevalent winds to blow through the space, keeping the inside cool without relying on air conditioning. Panels of recycled tetra packs act as substrate for the roofing panels while at the same time providing a highly effective insulation from the heat. The structure can easily be converted from a canteen to a communal gathering space. This canteen only work as a food center, but also a waiting area for the parent that come to pick their children up, and this space also provides a view out to the football field.
Site Plan In this site plan , we have been mark all the big tree and some building to be a guide line for our new canteen. It is located infront of the road, where people come will see this cantten from far away. We also create a new route for a footpath from east and west.
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Construction Drawing In this drawing is showing all the plan, elevation, section, and also the detail of foundation and each angle for the worker to create it easily. From all the angle, it creste a three entrance that allow people to come in and out. For the roof, it designed to have two layer, 1. the milk box compress that work as a rain blocker, and steel metal.
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Day of Construction Before the construction, we were brainstorm and conclude the design at Chulalongkorn University, then talked with the contractor about the possibility to contruct thsi design. Then we build a physicle model to see the overall look of it. Then we going back to the site, to help out the worker by indicate the point where the canteen has located.
From Rendering to Reality
CHONNABOT’s CANTEEN Finally, the imagination has taken its shape. Everyone in the community is very excited with this new canteen. They decorated the canteen in their own style for the celebration in the upcoming day. All students really love this canteen, they said, “It’s really much better than the old canteen.”
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Architectural Portfolio By : Kritjarruwat Aphirathiran
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