WALL

WALL

A collective book of architectural and design projects

by Nawapan Suntorachai

Wall, a vertical structure, often made of stone or brick, that divides or surrounds something.

Graduated from Architecture and Design Program from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Nawapan is a skillful who is capable of using multi-programed tasks to design and presentation. He is also passionate in social activities such as volunteering and urban improvement. Most of the ideas from his academic work point to a sustainable design.

Nawapan Suntorachai

Table of Contents

Contents

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Modular System

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Metropolis

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Porto Pool

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Architect : Copy Cats

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Styles

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Chronoshomes

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Supernatures

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Architecture School

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Beautilitalian at Site Specific

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Building Trust : Cambodian Community

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Lumpini Pavilion

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Research design and analysis

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Renovation project

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Design Build

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Posters

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On the next following pages are all the ideas, processes, analysis, time and experiences that I have spent for years. I have built the wall with several bricks of thoughts. This “wall“ represents me as a design student.

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Aggregation & Modularity

The physical construction of prototypes beginning with studies using standard dimensional materials and rule based systems (aggregation and modularity) to generate formal systems. Central to this project is the documentation of the system and the relationship between parts and the behavior of parts relative to a global assembly. The final outcome of this project will result in the installation and documentation of the developed structures.

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The project was made of canvas paper where the property of its thickness and strength could support the weight of its modularity that reached to 90 centimeter-height level. The fan shape was folded in 2 different ways which created 2 modules that possibly form 4 variations.

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Form experiment / initial models

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The physical construction of prototypes beginning with studies using standard dimensional materials and rule based systems (aggregation and modularity) to generate formal systems. Central to this project is the documentation of the system and the relationship between parts and the behavior of parts relative to a global assembly.

With the properties of materials, the modular unit formed the cluster and jointed with selective proper connector. The final results shows teh patterns of possibilities to be extended and developed.

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Metropolis

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Electronic Eyes The sun starts to fly up to the sky as the clock turns to 6 o’clock in the morning. The district is now waken up by the sounds of people chatting and birds singing their morning song. From the top of a government building, a big transparent window is now starting its work as the tracking camera of the city. Two eyes are looking throughout the clear object from a secret room seeing what is happening in the place that is 600 meters below. Of course, nobody has come to this place, except the secret agency. This is not a normal place for anybody to live, but only those who are permitted. As a part of the secret agency, I am who is a hacker is a commander of this room.

As the clock turns to 8 o’clock, the officers are starting to arrive at the building. Military, Polices, Courts, and governors are now begin to work as usual. This is our routine in everyday to work as the officers in this building. There are many things for us to do as a part of the government that needs to work for all people in order to reach our goal of improving our district to be in thrive and peace.

The part of my work is given by the head of secret agency, who is my boss. My new work is about to design a way of observing everything in the district and collect the data of individual effect which causes the movement of changing.

To work as a hacker, I have designed the Electronic Eyes that can watch YOU at every moment. It has been a few months inside my room to design and create Eye’s screens that can connect to everyone’s life. This program will be a key, or a virus to others’ computers, notebooks, tablets, cell phones, or the cameras. With Electronic Eyes, you do not need Google Street View to see where you want to go. You can just look for the address you want to see and watch street cameras in REAL TIME.

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On May 1st 2014, more than half of the electronic devices of the district are infected. I can see people moving around the entire district.

I spend most of my time being at my room to see people living their lives. The more I see, the more I understand what is going on in my district. To observe someone is a starting point of collecting data to help the government develop the society. It cannot be useful without questioning the observation. In this overpopulation district, there are many different opinions, many questions, and their answers, which are hiding in the air.

Every movement of people reflects the quality of life. Aftermaths, there were many good and bad in their contexts. Sometimes, I want to go there to help them know the truth, but I can only watch, and learn.

May, 1st, 2015, A 1st anniversary of Electric Eyes. After observing people, I realize that, It is not about tracking others and what they are doing, but I have also observed myself as one of the population who have my own responsibility and participation to do for other people as well as to serve the district.

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When the city is overpopulated, we, designers, have to prepare and design a way of arranging the system. From the very first, before we build, our given plan is FIELD. We have to use the benefit of physical geography to create a district supporting 1,000,000 (1 Million) people.

Before we create the system we need to plan the shape of the city so that it benefits all of the blocks.

We divide the district into a block where all the block have access to the exterior of the district but also at the same time access to the central park.

This way inhabitants of all block are allowed to communicate easily.

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Copycats

To acquire knowledge of fundamental formal, spatial, and cultural issues of architecture and their application through specific cultural precedents. To gradually construct and refine an argument throughout a semester-long project. To learn new methods of analysis and self-criticism and develop creative responses in the form of an architectural design.

Students will be responsible for providing coherent arguments, considering the comments and suggestions from instructors (advisors) but not conforming to them as facts. Students must have full ownership and understanding of their arguments and produce enough materials to clearly expose their ideas and thinking processes.

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Wiel Arets is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, industrial designer and the former Dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, in the United States of America.

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Moving away from originality and instead focus on the frowned upon act of copying architect’s work. Away from the burden of innovation, the exercise on imitation provided enough time to study deeply and intimately somebody else’s architectural body of work, understanding methods, priorities and principles behind the choices and decisions and ultimately being capable of thinking just like him/ her. This idea is not something new either. The most traditional learning pedagogies are based on repetition, on learning from the past in order to understand the present.

The selective architect is Wiel Arets, the dutch architect who designed several well-known building in Europe such as Utrecht Library. By applying knowledge from selective architect styles and use the copier for designing the architect’s workspace as he, himself would have done it. The design was taken the site, materials, the methodology of design process throughout the biography and philosophy of the selective architect.

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CONVENTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NORDIC ARCHITECTURE

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Styles Fireplace

Nordic countries’ climate is in Tiga zone, which have the average temperature about -2 to 20 Degree Celcius, so Nordics need to warm their livings by placing the fireplace at the center of the dwellings.

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STAVE CHURCH FRONT ELEVATION

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NORDIC The Nordic countries are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It consists of five countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, as well as their autonomous regions: the Ă…land Islands, the Faroe Islands and Greenland. The Nordic countries have much in common in their way of life, history, language and social structure. The Nordic countries are top performers in numerous metrics of national performance.

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MEDIEVAL Much of Viking Age architecture that was initially rooted in central and southern Scandinavia and then subsequently applied in the Norsemen’s North Atlantic colonies can be traced back to the late Iron Age. Several types of structures built during the Viking era bear significant resemblances to the rural and urban settlements established by the Norsemen (or the Celtic-speaking populations for that matter) in the course of the Iron Age, most notably the archetypal longhouse.

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RAMP

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Forcing points

Using the Nordic traditional construction of ship manufacturing by applying into terms of architectural element. The ramp is a good way to study the circulation combined with tension and load supporter.

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Viking Ship Force circulation A middle column at the center of the ship hold the ship and lead it move forward by the large agosy, which only 3 sides of the ship were hold by the stings.

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Tension study

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PARTITION

Concept

Details Horizontal & Vertical Joinery Technique

Wood construction : glulam bended Nordic pattern developed Joinary design from nordic architecture

Concept develop #1

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tenon & mortise offset hole pin : pull the tenon tightly

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modular system a unit pin : pull the tenon tightly

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FIREPLACE

Concept

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Curvature analysis

Wood construction : Glulam bended with Roundhouse frame The element is applied to the context of Nordic countries including climate and traditional architecture.

Average Temperature Winter -20 to 4 Celcius Spring -15 to 8 Celcius Summer -4 to 18 Celcius Autumn -12 to 12 Celcius

Details Smoking pipe

Form inspiration

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Wood construction : Glulam bended in Geometric developed form.

Column Detail Form

Unroll Unit

Curvature analysis

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wall The models of an experiment from the design focusing on glulam technique and bending timber sheet to create architectural elements including pillars and walls as a decorative materials.

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S P E C TAC L E S

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OF NORDIC

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Construction Materials and Construction technique in Explosive drawing. The observatory used the glulam technique combined with the traditional joinery of Nordic Medieval.

With the modern technique, the timber, as main material, could be extended the form into curval and smooth surfaces allowing its property of strength to be stronger.

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THE COLLECTOR’s HABITAT C Habitat Collectors and Collecting Collecting is a consumption.

Collectors are happy to fulfil and complete their collections even those expensive items are useless.

In the other way, we can see them as the value maker, a person who sees an object more valuable in rituality than its cost. By adding an object into its collection, it makes the object out of economic cycle and became extraordinary thing.

Collecting can be classified in several ways including concrete or abstraction, hold or trade, trend or love, keep or offer, etc.

Collecting is different from stocking, in a reason that collecting does not keep more than two alike.

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A boy who loved mask riders collected their models until the age of 15, he started ignoring.

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A single mature who loved robot toys, he spent time for them since he was young.

Then he met his lover, and have family which caused him unable to collect more toys.

A senile whose children moved out from home, so he had to find something replaced, which was the start of collecting activity.

Apartments, sharedhouse, and mansion mostly located on the main road

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Nakano broadway, one of the biggest ancient market in tokyo located in the center of Nakano ward.

North Nakano analysis :

residential area more than 80% others are education institutes

What is the motivation that let collectors get up and go to catch up their own interest?

Central Nakano analysis:

commercial area more than 70% others are educations, governments

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The research shows that the primary spread of collecting had happened more than 4000 years ago, because of the international trading of expensive and aesthetic items such as jewellery, paintings, weapons, etc. in which became more specific collections in terms of history, gender, type, location, and others.

The motivation that drives the inner sensation of collectors can be explained by understanding what the benefits of those addicted acts are.

Most of people have the opinions about them as a weird, addicted, anti social, materialistic mania, baby. Some psychologists explains that it is one kind of sexual wants and the collectors immerse in looking, earning, and keeping.

The research from 1950 range of collectors shows that the most popular rate are in 8-11 years old, then decreasing in teenage, and connecting again when became mature and old.

The reason why it appears in different period of ages might be referred to the factors of free time, love, and hope. This collecting activity was looked as a serious leisure.

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Danet and Katriel classified terms of collectors into 2 ways.

First, the collector is a motivated man who wants to complete his collection. Second, he is a beauty consumer who does not need a complete collection. In both case, it brought to a romanticism, which the collectors are punctilious to their collecting.

Why and how do they choose something to collect?

Individual person has their own link to the collection such as their names, cultures, nations, occupy, experience. But sometimes, it is happened by earning some presents from friends and family.

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For getting one thing, into two, three, four, and become collections it creates the small world of the collector. It contains of the sense of victory inside the small space full with rare items. To collect and classify the different types of collections become a fun activity. The objects become uncountable value to the collectors.

How can we design the living space for collectors?

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JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE PROOF

What do they need in the space?

To scope down the routine of collectors, the research suggested rates are

Japanese earthquake resistent construction

Isolation Bearings

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I N T O A HA B I TAT

The method of construction can be separated into 2 ways.

First is the system construction, the circulation will fixted the certain 8 possibilities in which extended in 4 attachment.

So the construction that I chose is a cantilever. The column supporting is orientated in itself showing at the image below.

The column could afford 8 directions in order to reach to the units in gridiron plan.

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The unit which I design was separated into 2 floors, the bottom one will be for living, and the upper one will be display and collection storage. In which could afford 1-2 people in each unit. According to the previous phase, unit design, now it came to the phase of aggregations. By systematic of grid system and circulation of the unit itself allows the continuity of further possible unit to connect to each other. the design

shows the different types of possibility of aggregation in many ways. The aggregation between units is methodized by its individual circulation in which is part of the unit. The stair circulate at the outside of the unit showing from the image, which start at the bottom, stop at the middle, then continue to the top.

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AG G R E G AT I O N

The analysis showing that, the possibility of attachment could classify into 2 majors, and 1 combination. They are 1. 50 percent surface attached 1.1 one orientation attached 1.2 four orientations attached(box) 2. 10 percent surface attached 2.1 one orientation attached 2.2 four orientations attached(box) 3. 50 and 10 percent surface attached So that the pattern of the attach ment could be draw in 5 terms of aggregation.

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Collector's Habitat, Nakano Between loves and lives

When people love something, they will do everything to get it, similar to a group of people called the Collectors.

In Nakano district in Tokyo, the context and attractions show that many Japanese have a behavior of collecting something, sometimes they go mania. The more they are interested, the more they are trying to collect. Many collections releases annually, so the collectors may have their spaces changed over years.

Unfortunately, Nakano is one of the densest area in Tokyo. The collectors might not store their collections in their habitats along with their wants.

Well then, I introduce you the Collector’s Habitat where the collectors could keep their interests, display to others, have interest’s neighbors, and live happily. The concept is to reach a sense of simple but complex and public but private. One unit in habitat could provide those aimed senses. So the design of separating space, but still be in one box becomes the reasons for this form.

The unit will have 2 floors consisting of collection room above, and residential room below. For those collectors who want to display their collections could have terraces for their friends to join.

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CONCEPTUAL MANIFESTO DEMONSTRATES INHABITANT’S INTERESTS AND PREDICTION OF LIVING

The project aims to support the condition of used spaces where the ones who inhabit could organized their collections continuously without disrupting of other objects.

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TIMELINE REPRESENTS ANNUAL CHANGES OF INHABITANT’S ROOM

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SECTIONS AND MASTERPLAN

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ATMOSPHERIC PHOTOGRAPH

With the varieties of aggregation, the units could have an open terrace for outdoor activities including hanging out with friends, vegetations, or drying laundry as a fundamental tradition of Japaneses.

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CONSTRUCTION DIAGRAM

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CONSTRUCTION MODELING TEST

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RITUALS

With the interesting of religious beliefs, Buddhism was known as an scienctific religion for one who want to understand truth in nature. A passage for a monk or normal people who want to understand Buddha lessons could not be educated by readings or listenings, but to practice and abandon your lifestyle in order to become Who you are. Monks, people who decid.ed to have nothing but life, has to practice and meditate in everyday. Their lifestyles are shaped to support their spiritual practice: to live a simple and meditative life and attain nirvana. In modern era, culture and traditions involving with monks have been changed.

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SITE & CONTEXT

Therefore, relating to my selection of economic condition: adaptability. I had choose a contextual area in contrast to religious rituals. Ratchadapisek was one of the most entertaining, leisuring, and commercial zone of Bangkok. Both of the street were filled with offices, department store, and beautiful sexy girl bars. In this contrast, I proposed a way to make this spatial design for a Monk be able to adapt in this harzard society.

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As the project site chosen is on the Ratchadapisek Rd., the whole monastery was built between Main road(city) and back alley(community) in which also create the advantage where people could use the inner road to pass through the monastery.

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Left is a diagram shows the sequences of spaces beginning from the bottom to the top. The bottom shows the suffering experiences of people which in Buddhism we know as suffering exists.Then after people want to know the causes of suffering, they step out and go to search in the second stage. The third stage is the classification of suffering which connects to the forth stage of ways to avoid, eliminate or extinguish suffering.

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In Buddhism, the principle of buddha teachings is call the 4 Noble Truths in which it explain everything in the universe.

The four Noble truths consist of 4 stages.

1. Suffering exists 2. Suffering has caused 3. Suffering can be avoided, eliminated, or extinguished 4. Ways to avoid, eliminate, or extinguish which could be classified into 3 majors a. Good conduct 4a.1 Right speech 4a.2 Right action 4a.3 Right livelihood or life-style b. Mental Development 4b.1 Right mindfulness 4b.2 Right concentration 4b.3 Right effort c. Wisdom 4c.1 Right understanding 4c.2 Right thought So the project transform these religious truths into architectonic atmospheric spaces. All the spaces were designed in a series from the first truth to the fourth truth.

Then the project develop 6 of gardens and pavilions to achieve the goals of Buddhism

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A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOR FRIBORG

School is a community that allows everyone to meet and exchange ideas. Not only students to students but for the whole community under the same ‘Dome’.

Our building promotes the idea of ‘Dome’ where the outer structure protects the community under its skin.

The detached structure between the outer dome and the inner community brings flexibility to the building, which allows the community to optimum the use of spaces. For instance the open floor plan allows the future extension.

Inside the dome is the community and network of users and spaces. The transition of spaces are provided for various activities to take place, between student and public is a exhibition space, between studio and library is a co-working space and between studio and studio is a space where students can exchange ideas, or use the space as they want; doing models, chilling out, throwing party, for example.

The building is a opened dome which link the ground to the biking lane at the back and in the same time tie the neighbourhood together with the school and housing aside.

The auditorium at the back will not only bring publicity from the neighbouring school and the biking lane but also, with the help of adjustable facades, bring the outside environment into the building during summer season. The main staircase will connect the ground to public road at the back.

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The first and second floor are dedicated to bring publicity into the building, where all programs are open for public including library, exhibition space, open auditorium and a transparent fabrication room which tie the relationship between architecture student to outsiders.

The upper floors are more private, where classrooms, library and studios are connectedly placed. The open studio colonised the space between the inner structure and the outer dome where a more airy atmosphere is created with the controllable skylight facade. Moreover, students are engaged to exchange ideas and learn from each other by not only interacting to others in the transition spaces but also visually learning from the others opened studios where young students are engaged to walk through the older studios.

The very homogenous facade will house one of the most heterogeneous architecture school’s community.

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CHULALONGKORN

UNIVERSITY CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY

PROJECT YEAR LOCATION TYPE ARCHITECTS SIZE

: 1941 : BANGKOK, THAILAND : PUBLIC : LUCIEN COPPE & KITTI SINTHUSEK : 27295.85 sqm

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Context Built in the heart of Bangkok, INDA have a limited area and the building was built to the maximum plot.

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Extension Extension needs to demolishing the old and build a new one.

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Free Space Free and Multi-use space was created by students by moving the tables and chairs out. Now it is permanently empty. With no precise function, students use the space according to their needs.

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Cars With the limited storage and and no permanent personal space.

Cars became another essential space to keep the private stuffs, models and drawings.

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The use of space The small limited space is enough for working with a laptop.

As of the limited space, most activities were pushed outside to a shared space for example, shared model making room, shared group working spaces.

Refectory 24/7 Convenience store around the school, not the part of the school but have a strong connection to the school and students.

Desk Critique Divided by the flexible partitions, it is the quiet space for professors and students to stay focused and create the learning atmosphere.

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With no personal space, we don’t have our own permanent personal space at school. We spend lots of time at home working.

The boundary between school and house became loosely merged.

However, at home we can manage our own working space freely.

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Fabrication Room With the growing number of students, the space is not convenience to use. Many outsource shops open around the school.

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With the limited space, many spaces are multi-use, some were aimed since the design process, some from the design process, some were done later according to the user’s need.

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Pinup Space Connected and divided using the flexible partition.

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Library Enough resources but hard too access. Located in the school yet in their corner of the building.

Strength • Located at the centre of the city, and near public transportation and also provide university shuttle bus for students.

• Students needs to relax in shared spaces which can cause a large group of society inside the building.

• Specific zone of different brances of architecture department could provide continuity for student to locate their work in their zone.

• In one space, it could be transformed optimisely in different functions. For instance, the room for work and pin-up could be at the same place by arranging flexible partition to create new private/public space.

Weakness • Not enough space because the design was not planned for future discipline, the department needs to organise rooms in schedule for different courses.

• All space are shared in rooms, facility and fabrication. User needs to line up for use.

• No individual space for students, they need to work both in school and houses, and carry models, drawings back and come by cars.

• No 24/7 • With the increasing of students, the building could not support rooms for different grades.

Senior and Freshman have to shared rooms for work.

NANTES ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL NANTES ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL

PROJECT YEAR LOCATION TYPE ARCHITECTS SIZE

: 2009 : NANTES, FRANCE : PUBLIC : LACATON & VASSAL : 15150 sqm

Arrangement plan Library

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Extension Extensions are available be cause of the planned unprogrammed spaces.

For example, from parking into studios, from unprogrammed space into refectory.

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Spaces and Programs

Strength

The Nantes School of Architecture can be divided into two types of spaces.

The first type of space accounts for 15,000 square meters and consists of the program required by the competition brief (classrooms, research facilities, administrative offices).

The second type almost doubles the project’s surface area by creating large, unprogrammed spaces, adding 5,000 square meters of double-height enclosed exterior spaces, plus another 6,000 of exterior terraces and balconies.

Separated by floor-to-ceiling glass doors mounted on aluminum frames, programs can spill out of the first type of space into the second, whose generic surface area can be adjusted through the extension of the building’s intermediary structure. Tailoring the school precisely to the brief would have severely limited the project’s potential both as a building and as an architecture school; it would have resulted in the kind of neutral and generic spaces that make institutional buildings virtually undifferentiable.

If the programmed spaces conform to the baseline minimum that an architecture school needs to function, then the unprogrammed spaces, which make up half of the school’s surface area, provide the school with new potential that is entirely unpredictable.

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Classrooms, Auditorium, and collaborating room are programmed separately and all of them are connected to the second type space.

• Users can use unprogrammed space with the flexible function. They can do activity such as playing sports, watching movies, relaxing, making models, etc.

• First type spaces can be extended to the second type in case of future extension.

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Canteen is located at the ground floor, it took 1/4 of the floor, but it seems not have enough space for students.

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Library and research area are designed in two layers including offline and online publishing access.

• with the design of double-height volumns, it can increase the area from 12,000 to 25,000, which could maximize the building within limited area.

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With the large open space at the ground floor, the fabrication room such as CNCs, Lasercut, Paintings, etc. are able to be located at the same area.

• The location is easily access from the city by foot, bicycle, or public transportation from the suburbs.

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Activity area or unprogrammed spaces are designed to be part of every floor in order to provide for future functions such as parkings, exhibition, relaxation, etc.

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• Double-height volumns can help regulate the school’s interior temperature and ventilation.

Context The former abandoned island, with a more space available, the building did not use the whole plot to built.

weakness • The Polycarbonate façade brings the relationship between school and surrounding context in blurred vision.

• Some shared collective spaces are not able to house all student such as canteen, whiat lunch students have to wait for long time.

• Open to appropriation, the unprogrammed spaces allow the users of the school to redefine the standards of an architecture school. The production of a viable social space becomes an assumed risk shared by all inhabitants, allowing for the democratic and spontaneous creation of a social space that could never have been explicitly envisaged in the school’s original program.

• the polycarbonate sheet could not heat up the building during winter time, which later causes expenses for electricity. Users may need to wear coats all the time when they change room.

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• No personal space for work, students need to work in collaborating with their houses.

• The former design does not response properly to the students needs. For instance, the classrooms were not enough for students, therefore the parking was transformed into other programmed spaces such as studios, classrooms, etc.

The use of space The programmed space can spill out of the first type while the programmed spaces also provide enough space for various use.

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Unprogrammed Spaces Double Height Space - Create a comfortable and airy atmosphere.

Enable a more various activity.

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Unprogrammed Space - Encourage students to do various activities in the campus, relaxing, working, exhibiting projects and even skateboarding and badminton can also take place in this area. Moreover, the programmed space can spill out to this area, whose generic surface area can be adjusted through the extension of the building’s intermediary structure. For instance, the parking lots to studio.

Most spaced are connected to the unprogrammed space which is prompt for future extension

Adjustable Partition - Regulate temperature and ventilate the air. However, during winter the weather is too cold, and the partition can not insulate the weather. The unprogrammed interior area become more like an exterior space, walking from one space to another is like walking from building to building.

Acitivty Space Activity Court - One centre activity court became the school’s collective space, everyone in the school interact within this area create a more lively space and atmosphere.

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Library - Easy to access library that includes the research library and the media library.

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Fabrication Room - Huge fabrication room, including 4 or 5 axis CNC machines, 3d printer, di cut, laser cutter and wood shop. Which facilitate students to work on models and practical studies. Unprogrammed space nearby also promotes the idea of 1:1 and experimental learning.

24/7 Convenient Store - Foods are very convenience and is available for students most of the time. It is comparable to the vending machines here but like a restaurant vending machine.

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Study SPace Partition - Partitions and furnitures are adjustable. One single space can transform into many, for instance, critique, pinup and working area can happen in the same space in difference occasion.

Workplace Home/School - Working at both home and school may be very inconvenience yet working at home enable us to freely adjust our workplace. Bringing this idea to school might be useful, working at school but feels like home.

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School is a community that allows everyone to meet and exchange ideas. Not only students to students but for the whole community under the same ‘Dome’.

Our building promotes the idea of ‘Dome’ where the outer structure protects the community under its skin. The detached structure between the outer dome and the inner community brings flexibility to the building, which allows the community to optimum the use of spaces.

For instance the open floor plan allows the future extension.

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Inside the dome is the community and network of users and spaces. The transition of spaces are provided for various activities to take place, between student and public is a exhibition space, between studio and library is a co-working space and between studio and studio is a space where students can exchange ideas, or use the space as they want; doing models, chilling out, throwing party, for example.

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The building is a opened dome which link the ground to the biking lane at the back and in the same time tie the neighbourhood together with the school and housing aside.

The auditorium at the back will not only bring publicity from the neighbouring school and the biking lane but also, with the help of adjustable facades, bring the outside environment into the building during summer season.

The main staircase will connect the ground to public road at the back.

The first and second floor are dedicated to bring publicity into the building, where all programs are open for public including library, exhibition space, open auditorium and a transparent fabrication room which tie the relationship between architecture student to outsiders.

The upper floors are more private, where classrooms, library and studios are connectedly placed. The open studio colonised the space between the inner structure and the outer dome where a more airy atmosphere is created with the controllable skylight facade.

Moreover, students are engaged to exchange ideas and learn from each other by not only interacting to others in the transition spaces but also visually learning from the others opened studios where young students are engaged to walk through the older studios.

The very homogenous facade will house one of the most heterogeneous architecture school’s community.

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Site Specifically Beautilitarian The practice of architecture operates in the continuum of the mundane and the sublime.

Mundane utilitarian functions co-exist with the very architectural entity that produces affects, expressions and experiences. Louis Kahn’s served and servant spaces together epitomize the classic dichotomy; so does the iconic Centre Pompidou or Jean Nouvel’s I nstitut du Monde Arabe , albeit in a very different fashion.

Beauty is a common awe-inspiring mechanism of the sublime. According to the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, “the sublime was routinely coupled with the beautiful to produce a classificatory system for judgments about experience.”

While humanity, philosophy and the arts fundamentally embrace beauty , Architecture, on the other hand, has had a troubled relationship with the construct. Modern architectural discourse, with its general tendency to over-intellectualize, tends to eschew beauty, proclaiming its subjectivity and indefinability undebatable.

From a part of the Vitruvian Triad—firmitas,

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utilitas, venustas —beauty has become one of Architecture’s most notorious no-no’s, regardless, or precisely because of, its inherently visceral nature.

Ornament, a progenitor of architectural affects, is closely related to beauty yet far more debatable. Historically, architecture has reverberated between denouncing and deferring to the function of ornament, from Gottfried Semper’s theory of ornament to Adolf Loos’s denunciation of ornament as a crime. The pendulum has swung from ornamented traditional architectures to Modernism and back again to ornamental revival in contemporary architecture.

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In this project, the site chosen is an old flat building where the government has been abandoned for 40 years. The community and the people who lived in this building were living in the poor facility including broken staircase, elevator stucks, thieves, pests, and dirty pollution from the market downstar.

But, it is interesting site for me that the interior space and its programmed organization are suit for inhabitant. There used to have several functional units. For examples, barber shop, laundry store, convenient stores that integrated with inhabitants’ living. The room inside provides 2 floors with the mezzanine. The terraces were used for cooking and laundry as it shew in the images. The entrance of each unit was not the concrete wall but the security grills for every unit.

Therefore, the next phase will explain how the proposal of using vegetation and greenery plants could help reduce the poor facility and improve the better vision to the building.

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The concept of using plants as a facade is to filter the pollutant both by outside and inside activities including noise, rainstorm, and air pollution.

From the research, the technique of construction is to use the wire to hang the plant boxes which each column could support, on average, 8-10 tons which under the maximum loaded ability of 15 tons for the steel column.

The plant pot were design, originally, from concrete. But the proposal that I made, is to use the lighter materials by integrating plastic rubbishes into the ratio of concrete at 1:2 to reduce the weight and create stronger composite materials.

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South West Vertical Forest is a model for a sustainable residential building contributing to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory.

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The concept of renovation this facade by using green biological materials is to improve the quality of living of the habitants.

The analysis was taken on user study by observing and interviewing their routines, work, and lifestyles.

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North West With the limit of space, the model was aim to use the minimum surface for ground construction. By hanging the garden concrete planters, the method allows the possibilities to generate various types of modularity and set up as a network of environmental corridors which will give life to

the main parks of the building, bringing together the green space of avenues, and gardens and interweaving various spaces of spontaneous vegetation growth.

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Lumpini Pavilion

Project: Pavilion

A design of contemporary Pavilion in Lumpini Park, Bangkok. Space planning, form, structure, materials, finishing, assembly and foundations principles have to be defined and designed. The objectives is to understand the relations between design and structure, stability, materials, loads and stress,

Group members: Pimpakarn Rattanathumawat, Pongpol Punjawaytegul, Tanawat Pruekkumvong, Nawapan Suntornchai

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Work Scope 1. Schematic Design The Schematic design stage involves visiting to the actual site and initial proposal of the brief by observing and analyzing the problem for the possible innovative solution to the design planning.

2. Design Development The Design development stage involves a detailed assessment including the detailed design for the alteration and extensions of the space, the construction of the mezzanine and other main structures and systems.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND ANALYSIS 3. Contract Documentation The Contract Documentation presents the construction drawing for the Development Application for Certification including with detailed construction drawings and specifications for construction and schedules, which we propose a fee of 5,320,671 baht, excluding GST.

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