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The Ruined Garden Yaatrabali Ephemeral Civic Center In•Between The Last Farewell Connectivity+ ISAURA p.05
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01 The Ruined Garden Post-Anthropocene Through Material Manipulations
Ruined garden : post-anthropocene approach of repurposing the existing abandoned concrete structures for non-human by material manipulation in macro and micro scale With that reflection, I attempted to design no longer solely for humans. I have done the material exploration to make concrete, the very artificial material, become liveable for morethan-human which is plants and animals. The exploration of concrete is done on two scales; micro-scale which I explore on concrete mixture and macro which focus more on texture and cavity. The concept of making concrete liveable can be apply to a house or even to expand as a network since concrete structure is very common and is everywhere and we can manipulate the existing concrete with the method of subtraction and partially demolish instead of rebuild the whole new thing.
While Bangkok being the centre of urbanisation, it still have the element of nature which are green area and canals that spread throughout the area. On top of that, the abandoned structures take place, in relation with canal and park. Which create different type of ecosystem base on environment in the area, and lead to different possibilities and conditions on how to make this waste space useful again. This whole reflection is not meant to build or adapt to one individual unique building but rather to be a network of artificially natural repurposed buildings that support animals and ecosystems that spread in every part of Bangkok. Also, benefit to the city by being several small green spaces to Bangkok since we cannot have the big one. This could be one of the answers to the new qualities of this architecture that we are moving toward in the era of post Anthropocene p.5
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Relational Map With various Abandoned structure typologies in Bangkok, Material manipulation can be apply to buildings, create concrete patterns with treatment and tools to allow Flora founa species to inhabit on these buildings that innitially made only for human.
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Catalog of Concrete pattern the patterns, the tools used and possible non-human inhabitants. Each pattern create different surface or cavity quality benefit for different types of animals and plants, Some encorage and some to mediate or prevent encounter between species.
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Section and Plan Concrete manipulations o existing abandoned building to allow for other non human inhabitants
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Network of Abandoned buildings The purposal is not mean to convert an individual building into post-anthropocene garden but to create a network of post-anthropocene for various species in Bangkok
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Pavillion tmosheric visions of the pavillion after inhabited by florafounas, at the same time having space for humans as well.
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Model 1:20 Physical Model on concrete treatment on the building floor. Engraved with machine and manual.
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02 Yaatrabali
Stop travelling. Stop crossing thousand miles to see the ‘paradise on earth’, only to go back homedisappointed by the reality. Stop travelling. Instead, we must experience
Unbuilt Vision of the East
Imagine going to a place where we feel peaceful and at ease, a place where we see the greatness of nature and beauty of the ancients, a place where the experience enlighten us and all the burdens have been washed away. This is the what we desire, the journey that purified, clarified, and enhanced our spirits. The journey that take us through a sequence of experiences, makes memories, reconnect us to ourselves, and remains in us even after the it ends. Now, the reality is too ruined to provide us those sensation. It no longer provide the rich, authentic experience as it use to provide. The tree has been cut down, the sea has been polluted, the peacefulness has been swallowed by flood of tourists. The reality of our time become a useless material to build up the experience we desire. Stop depending on reality that could not provide us what we want. Aim for the better. It is time to move forward to the Real Virtuality. We feel urge to resurrect that perfect images of reality in our head. We will recreate all the experience that has been abused. We promise to provide you the experiences we have been desire
‘EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL.’
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The project was purposed as an alternative for travel without the need to visit the real place, as now the reality is too ruined to provide us the rich experience as it was in the past. YAATRA is a real virtuality wellness destination, by real virtuality means that the experience that the visitors are real regardless of what the experience is made of. It is done by the integration of an existing geothermal power plant site in Java, Indonesia with the activities in Bali which is now facing its paradise loss caused by over-tourism. The process of the geothermal energy power plant and its by-product is used as the source to build up the real virtuality experiences. The activities provided in YAATRA are organized by height similarly to how different activities happen following different geology types on Bali island. The activities are also organized following the change of the temperature caused by geothermal heat, from the thermal hot spring that changes the temperatures of the water as it goes down each bath, to the beach part with a cool, refreshing infinity pool with the best sunset view. Begin your journey at YAATRA, Even Better Than the Real Thing. p.13
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massage & spa thermal bath house pool
Section of YAATRABALI the sections shows different programs in YAATRABALI which use thermal water from thermal energy plants while utilized the changes in water tempureture with each programs
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Sequence of Experience in YAATRA Each activity in YAATRA Bali are generated around the by-product of a Geothermal Energy Plant on Java island. the activities are organized according to the change of water temperature as the water goes down
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Top - Infinite Pool bottom - Yoga Retreat Starting and final point of spiritual journey in YAATRA,enjoying tranquil scenario of Java, or bath in sunset before day’s end.
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Vision of YAATRA the virtual reality destination built around Geothermal energy plant on Java island, still presents its original industrial elements intergrated with the experience in YAATRA
Vision of YAATRA the poster advertise the virtual experiences replicated from spiritual journeys in Bali to YAATRABALI, Java island.
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As you first arrive to YAATRABALI all the experience are still hidden behind tree and will be exposed once you reach the designated experience area, this provide you the sequence of spatial experience that alternate from a concealed to an exposed spaces as you go through the journey here at YAATRA We recommend You can start off you experience at our infinity pool, either you are a sports lover or a family with kids you can enjoy your activities here in the way you want. our infinity pool is also one of the best viewpoint to watch the sunset where you can enjoy the stunning moment together with authentic beauty of java Rice field. After enjoying the outdoor next is our thermal bath which the heat generated by geothermal energy bring by the exposed ducts. the temperature of the thermal water also change as the water go down from one pool to the other so you could choose to enjoy our bath here exactly at the temperature you want. Then take time relaxing at our spa Lastly We would like to offer you an exclusive experience at our yoga retreat where you can spend time reconnected with yourself through mediation and you teach by the best local yoga guru while watching the sun set and enjoy the whole scenario of YAATRA bali before leaving with both your body and mind at ease. Begin your lifetime journey Even better than the real.
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Thermal Bath Thermal Bath which heat generated by geothermal energy via the exposed ducts
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03 Ephemeral Civic Center
‘Even Better Than The Real’
Bang khun tien is described as the land with changing condition First is the change in land condition as the land regulation map identify the area as preservation area as it is the only mangrove forest area in Bangkok, however, in the recent lands map we we can see it label as land with changing condition. The cause is the aquaculture of shrimp farming that was popular around year 2000. The deforestation of mangrove forest to farmland also lead to other major change in the land, the erosion. Bang khun tein coast has been eating away continuously. This Civic vision in Bang khun tien aim to embrace the changing condition of the land by building Impermanent structure that create minimum impact to the land and allow to be move, add, or deconstruct as needed when the condition of the land change in the future.
The civic encounter is centred around the community and their resource - Mangrove forest. The focus of the main function of the space are (1) Local Market Center for creating direct community of the seller/farm owner and buyer/visitors, the other focus is (2) Mangrove forest learning centre for both local and visitor to gain/exchange knowledge about mangrove forest. These Civic structures are build with few module typologies that can build in different scale and after the reassemble the module typologies can be absorb Back to community. These structure should create minimum impact to the land as possible to maintain the quality of land for mangrove forestation and can be move / accommodate to change either for the erosion or future expansion of mangrove forest. And can be move, add or reassemble as needed with least impact on the land as possible. p.21
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Site Analysis 1 Study of the site condition along the edge of Bang Khun Tien down to the coastal area, the land change from urban to residential, Shrimp farm, Mangrove forest and erosion coast.
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Site Analysis 2 the elevation shows site context as a stripe, with sections cut along the length shows each sequences of land with different stakeholders in the site lead to variety of civic needs and possible civic typologies along the line.
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Site Context Plan 2 the civic center can be build along the length of bang Khun Tien edge and response to various needs according to the context of the section
Pier Typology All typologies are built on floating piers to create minimum impact to the land and allow to be move, add, or deconstruct as needed when the condition of the land change in the future.
Joint Typology all components are assemble with joint and not fixed, allow for future change in layout and programs, as well as partial maintainance or material replacement.
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Typologies of Civic These Civic structures are build with few module typologies that can build in different scale and after the reassemble the module typologies can be absorb Back to community.
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Section of Civic Center the civic center are built on floating piers connected as a platform to create minimum impact to maintain the soils quality which able to grow mangrove forest in the future as the coastal edge extends.
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Shrimp Market Civic Center the typology can be assemble, extend, and dissemble on the water surface. Beneath the piers can be use for farming
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Atmospherics Visions of the Local Shrimp Market area and visitors area. Time Based Plan Future visions of how the layout can be adjusted as needed when the condition of the land change in the future.
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04 In•Between
Infra-ordinary Tokyo enhancing everyday life quality
In Tokyo, one of the infraordinary quality that most people often look over is the Gap, a narrow gap with 60 centimetre width between every single buildings in Tokyo. These gap are the result of Tokyo building regulation that establish to lessen the damage from house to house regarding earthquake which is natural disorder that occur regularly in Japan. The proposal explore on how we can use these gap and its spatial quality to enhance some aspects of daily life. The site locate on megurohoncho with hewadori shopping street at the front and residential alley at the back, it has potential to be both retail and residential which is the characters of this neighbourhood.
only residential. The theme of each gap also come from the context of the two building next to each gap, explore on theme of storage, connection, extension, socialize, playground and garden. By using use the infraordinary quality of these small 60 cm gap we can enhance their everyday life, and also this proposal is not finish as these 4 buildings but rather these houses work as the initiation to show the potential of gap space when the house is build in consideration of these quality, and we can imagine how these network of gap space will grow to enhance the urban fabric in the neighbourhood in then future as well.
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Gap Space - Infra-Ordinary Tokyo Workshop 2022 with Keio Exploring the neighborhood of megurohoncho in tokyo, its infraordinary quality is the gap between every single buildings, these gap are the result of tokyo building regulation that help to slow the spreading of fire and lessen damage of earthquakes. Hinodeya Shop is used as case study of the Gap Space
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Gap Spaces are delayered to study its happen in these gap spaces to embrace bine with our design interventions to or innitiate social situations within
current use and elements, we imagined different scenarios that can the quality of people’s life and using the potential of Gap space comenhance its domestic quality, create connection or between buildings, the neighborhood.
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Gap Spaces The theme of each gap come from the context of the two building next to each gap, explore on theme of storage, connection, extension, socialize, playground and garden. viewing the gap as collective introduce moment of junction between houses which has different quality to our previous study.
Plans The interior of the each floor are orient and create openness in consideration of the next buildings to allow for use of gap space as share space
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House A : Connection flower shop with residential, the gap space is shared with the nieghbor. The kitchen arrange in the same location allow for them to connect with each other occationally
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House B : Extension This building has similar program with hinodeya shop, being a shop/ house with limited space and massive amount of products, the gap space work as extension space to keep foldable storage as a temporary product showcase that can be arrange daily.
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House C : Playground the gap space shared between two residential houses can be transform into playground, connect childrens of both family. Parents can keep their eye on the kids as they run errands
House D : Garden being in Tokyo where the space is limited, houses are efficient and compact, there is not much space for hobbies The gap space can be use as opportunity for their hobby, ex. gardening.
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Gap Space Junction the gap between two houses can connect two families and junction of buildings can introduce micro-community
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Top - Site Context the site is currently a parking lot links to both residential and shopping streets Bottom - Hinodeya Shop studycase of gapspace adaptation
Site The site is devided into 4 plots, two facing hewadori street are shophouses, two facing back street are residential.
Gap Space top - Utilize middle - Connection bottom - Extension
Gap Space top - Micro-community middle - Playground bottom - Gardening
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05 The Last Farewell Funeral of Architecture
Although buildings are inorganic and inanimate, architects and critics have been using metaphors of life to describe buildings: “Building structures are referred to as ‘bones’; walls are to membranes’ or ‘skins’ These bodily metaphors are so interwoven with the architectural profession, that it seems to become self-evident that buildings have life. However, how they die is subject often to be neglected in the architectural profession. The site for the remaining objects is an abandoned under construction building, most of abandoned buildings in Bangkok are left abandoned. The facade made of combination of debris and panel from the old house is reapply as a skin in the abandoned building in quite a chaotic ways, recreate the Image of the house from the vague memory of the owner who realise the value of the architecture when it is too late, the building only portray the image of the house according to how he remember it, not how the house actually is.
For the interior, the remaining object of the dead house is move to the new place where is it arrange following the mental image of the house owner, inherit the life of the old architecture at the same time allow for the visitor to revisit the memory of the house. This design intent is not aim to be individual building but a concept that can be apply to any abandon building, introducing the life of the dead architecture into the architecture that die young die young, offering a glimpse of life to abandoned building that never got a chance to live, at the same time allow for the life of the dead architecture to be inherited and carry on without letting it die with the demolition of architecture. These inherited spirit in the abandoned building would slowly grow over the cityscape, turning the urban into graveyard by these grave stone building, hosting funeral of dead architecture. p.37
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Narative Scroll - Near Death Experience Five Stages Continuum of Near Death Experience of (1)peace and realization of death, (2)Out of Body Experience, (3)darkness,(4)seeing the light, and (5) entering the realm. Before being told or decide to go back to life Narative Scroll - Demolition Narrative scroll to portray the experience of the implosion as a continuous sequence. From the moment the first explosive start until there are nothing left but the debris
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Architectural Death Memento Mori This collage shows life and death, in the top parts conclude architectural death in many method. The bottom part is combine with the ruins debris and existing architecture memento mori
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The Facade Facade of the building is build of the fragment of the house, on the left the plaster piece is cast with the pattern and the texture in the house, with different texture material of wood and concrete
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The Last Farewell - short movie The movie narrate through the eye of a man who almost lost his life. Coming back to life after having a near death experience, he realise the value of his house, at the same time, he realise that the one who going to die is not him but this house instead. When building is dead, what remain is the objects with in the building. These objects in a way carries memory of the space with in them. there are objects that contain certain memory of the space, some of these are from the old house, some is in this house since it is built, either it is the object itself or how we use them, when these object are moved around, it still remind us of its specific memory in certain space. The remaining of a dead building is moved to the skeleton of an abandoned building, an architecture that die young, inherit the soul of the old architecture in the new body that never had a chance to live
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Interior The remaining object of the dead house is move to the new place where is it arrange following the mental image of the houseowner, inherit the life of the old architecture at the same time allow for the visitor to revisit the memory of the house
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Exterior The building work conceptually as gravestone for the dead architecture, build up by the remaining fragment of concrete and wood panel as a new skin of the abandon structure to inherit the spirit of the old house, to commemorate and bidding last farewell to the architecture. On the other hand The actual program is the antique store, offering remaining objects andfurniture to the visitor who sees value in some of these objects, and to bring them to their new home.
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The Urban Graveyard This design intent is not aim to be individual building but a concept that can be apply to any abandon building, introducing the life of the dead achitectue into the rchitecture that die young die young, offering a glimpse of life to abandoned building that never got a chance to live, at the same time allow for the life of the dead architecture to be inherited and carry on without letting it die with the demolition of architecture. These inherited spirit in the abandoned building would slowly grow over the cityscape, turning the urban into graveyard by these grave stone building, hosting funeral of dead architecture.
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06 Connectivity
MUIC Student Housings ; a link between communities
Since Mahidol university locate in suburban area in outskirt of Bangkok there are not much to do around the university area. So the student either occupied the space on the ground floor of their faculty building which is too public and exposed, or go to someones dorm room to use them as a hang out space which is too private and cramp size there is no something in between like semi public or semi private space for that. The existing student housings are not design for a collective lifestyle of student but design for an individual, which allow only minimum interaction between the inhabitant as possible. The lifestyle does not resonate with the life style of the student nor the curriculum of the university itself that encourage students relationship and community. So the purposal for mahidol student housing will focus on community between the student also promote connectivity with the student and univerity as well
The proposal for new Mahidol student housing take place in the area between soi tangsin, the current student housings and condominium area, and Mahidol university. The site is a long piece of land with the distance about 500 meter. The design purpose student housing that connect the existing housing to mahidol area to create connection directly to university, the housing itself also promote community lifestyle between the students, from university to their housing area. Connected by the main path that go through main common area on the ground floor, then link to smaller, more enclosed common area that alternate with living unit from first to fifth floor. The pathway to the room is next to the centre courtyard, provide visual connection together with physical connection.
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connectivity+ COMMUNITY Mahidol International student housing
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4th floor plan The proposal for new Mahidol student housing take place in the area between soi tangs, the current student housings and condominium area, and Mahidol university. The site is a long piece of land with the distance about 500 meter. What we found doing the interview and site visit is that the student housings that they have now does not resonate with the core idea of Mahidol university that emphasise community, also student lifestyle that need more space for collective activity instead of individual-separate life style that they have now.
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The design purpose student housing that connect the existing housing to mahidol area to create connection directly to university, the housing itself also promote community lifestyle between the students. Connected by the main path that go through main common area on the ground floor, then link to smaller, more enclosed common area that alternate with living unit from first to fifth floor. The pathway to the room is next to the centre courtyard, provide also visual connection with physical connection
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MUIC students usually hang out in their friends’ room instead of going out. They usually bring large amount of friends over from 5 to 20 people in one room, the living unit provide free sapce for them to hangout
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pathway connection create connection from soi tangsin, the existing living areaof most muic student directly to mahidol university area
student housings student housing is located near the existing condo and housings to allow communication and interaction between students
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this housing encourage student to not only stay in their room but to use common facility for more interaction between the students. The reading and co working area are provide for introverted activity and productivity
university related activity and facility are located on the right side of the housing which include club, basketball court and space for initiatiation process or rub-nong, while student and community related are place on the left side building front
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the eating space is provided next to the grocery store and restaurant,, the eating space can be use as lounge or hang out space in the evening for club activity or innitiation process. In this part of the building include laundry service and print shop for the convinience
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Site Context the site connects Tangsin, existing housings area to the Mahidol University area
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Connection Each floor of the housing has their own common area with external stair that links through the building
common living room for social gatering or club activity is also include in the housing since there are not much free space avialabie around the university for group gathering apart from their own dorm, the common living area have both indoor and outdoor section
Common Space Common co-working space are accessible to both students in and out of dormitary.
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this housing project does not stand as one isolated building but as one building in project that connect to the other buildings or facilities, the building provide ourdoor space that can be use for gathering or leisure activity, the pathway show connection to other buildings
co working and reading area is a common hall that provide working space instead of a library. it is seperate from the living area to provide not only students in this housing but also other mahidol student to use the facility, the middle floor of the hall connect to the main building
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Public to Private provide them space to have group activity either for work or study or more leisure activity, socialise and relaxation, having these space as common facility that the student can actually use can encourage interaction between the student and and let them stay not only in living unit.
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07 ISAURA
Reinterpretation of ‘Le Citta Invisibili’ - Italo
Isaura is built with the concept of reinterpreting the pre-civilisation. This land was found with only the wells and aqueducts and the new inhabitants build their dwelling inside these infrastructures. The city made of the combination of aqueducts and viaducts to deliver both people and water. With the condition that the city needs to grow, it will reach the point that the construction can not support any more weight or the point that it starts to collapse, building the whole city with slender arcs of aqueducts can help with the constructions and extend the limit where the city can grow no more
tion of the building, the dwelling, the most private space, then is hidden in the aqueducts, is can be accessed from the top from the viaduct which is tangle with one another almost as streets.The socialise space is where water brings people together. One is the bath, other is fountains. Bathing is the ritual where all of the human senses is connect to water and also equalise people since in the ritual all hierarchies of people are the same. While the fountains which are the centre of the plaza is where people gather to draw up water, and that is where socialising happens.
In Isaura, lives revolve around water, and water is the primary assist to what contribute the city. Water cycling throughout the city first goes upward with the pipes, watermill, pulley, cable, gear all the mechanic draw up water from the world beneath like a vein that goes every inch of our body. then with gravity, it brings water back down to the earth At some point as water run by the aqueducts it falls and spread horizontally, that’s where activity happens. And that defines the hierarchy of space in the different height of the city Isaura
the centre of the city most public and collective there is a stairwell at the ground level in the very centre of the city. connects the upper world of Isaura to another hidden one beneath, the black lake. The only resource that makes the city alive in the harsh abandoned land. The well can be seen as both socialising and religious area where people worship their form of religion either as water or the solid components of the city. this is the heart of Isaura, the city of thousand wells.
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103 sq.m. visualization of city of Isaura.
102 sq.m. The city constructed around water hierachy from the well.
ISAURA, city of the thousand wells, is said to rise over a deep, subterranean lake. On all sides, wherever the inhabitants dig long vertical holes in the ground, they succeed in drawing up water, as far as the city extends, and no farther. Its green border repeats the dark outline of the buried lake; an invisible landscape conditions the visible one; everything that moves in the sunlight is driven by the lapping wave enclosed beneath the rock’s calcareous sky. Consequently two forms of religion exist in Isaura. The city’s gods, according to some people, live in the depths, in the black lake that feeds the underground streams.
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101 sq.m. Collage of the well at the center of Isaura According to others, the gods live in the buckets that rise, suspended from a cable, as they appear over the edge of the wells, in the revolving pulleys, in the windlasses of the norias, in the pump handles, in the blades of the windmills that draw the water up from the drillings, in the trestles that support the twisting probes, in the reservoirs perched on stilts over the roofs, in the slender arches of the aqueducts, in all the columns of water, the vertical pipes, the plungers, the drains, all the way up to the weathercocks that surmount the airy scaffolding of Isaura, a city that moves entirely upwards. - ‘Isaura’ from LE citta Invisibili, by Italo Cavalo
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08 Light the KOTO
Awakening Bangkok 2022 at Koto Tea House
DECAMERON Escaping away from the bustling city… Escaping away from the everyday distress… There is a light that leads us to the peaceful wild woods… There is a light in the forest that leads us to a shed… The shed with a central fireplace where strangers meet and share their stories...
Pandemic pulls us apart. It challenges us to have novel ways of communication. Learning from the classics, Koto Tea House offers two light installations for the Awakening Bangkok. 1. At the entrance of the tea house, there is a Noren screen with images of forest illuminated to create an image of deep yet serene forest, At the upper floor, the gallery space. There is a light installation of the abstract image of the shed, and the central fire place where visitors are invited to rest and share their stories
Decameron is a classical literature written in the time of the pandemic in medieval time. There were 10 strangers who escaped from the city, and met inside the shed in the countryside. It is their first time in a while to find a place to rest, and they start to tell their own stories to kill time. p.53
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Innitial Design Explore on patterns and orientations
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Light the KOTO; Installation Design Renderation of the installation at night
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09 Bak Bodhi Pavillion INDA - Design Construction for Community Project
BAK BODHI PAVILION “Ban Mueng Kung ‘’ is a well-known pottery handicraft village located 10 kilometers south of Chiang Mai, Thailand, being an important tourist attraction that has drawn people from all over Thailand as well as foreigners to its Nong Kwai subdistrict. This charming village contains around 300 households with 30 craftsmen working on pottery handicrafts for the village. They have several pavilions located on the village’s entrances where they hang out together as well as wait for the bus. “Bak Bodhi Pavilion” is the project by the International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA), Chulalongkorn University, which replaces the decayed old pavilion located at the front of the village right next to the main road, route 108. The design of the pavilion is inspired by “Hae Mai Kum Bodhi ‘’ tradition, in which the sacred bodhi tree branches are supported by uniquely ornamented randomly placed struts. The pavilion follows the
principles where the roof structure is supported by forest-like slender columns made possible by a steel structure and grid system. It creates an airy pavilion with an additional function of a bookshelf hidden at the inner side of the main roof structure. The pavilion offers users to spend their time together, read books, and wait for the bus. Further than responding to the original programs, Bak Bodhi Pavilion aims to be the new landmark of the village, allowing for the use of not only the villagers but also the visitors. Accordingly, the façades of the main structure are cladding with multi-color tiles, derived from four different pottery colors of Baan Mueng Kung, representing wood bark-like texture and the cultural richness of this pottery handicraft village.
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Natcha Thanachanan
natcha.thaa@gmail.com +66 96 454 6694
Concept The form of the pavillion derives from a local ceremony. Hybrid of local architecture type and symbolic feature leads to the design of the pavilion
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Exterior and Interior Elevations
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natcha.thaa@gmail.com +66 96 454 6694
Interior One side of the pavillion roof is installed with structure to use as a bookshelf, provide activity for passengers while waiting.
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Exterior Exterior terracotta tile with various firing tempurature results in different tile colors. The tiles can be reproduce by villagers
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natcha.thaa@gmail.com +66 96 454 6694