Prae Lertprasertkul
Pam
Architectural and Design Portfolio 2021
Prae Lertprasertkul Pam I am a hard working person seeking to apply my skills and artistic drive to create new things for the world. Interested in material experimentations and loves to explore new means of working techniques. Personally good at concept designing and building a great narrative for arhitectural Projects Contact: (+66)81 824 1236 praelertprasertkul@gmail.com Bangkok, Thailand
Education
Major Academic Achievements
(2017 - 2021)
(06/2019 - 08/2019)
International Program in Design and Architecture Bachelor’s degree of Science in Design and Architecture
(Designer, Fabricator, Exhibitor, Manager) Adjunct Professor Takanao Todo + INDA Fablab Cafe Open House at Central Embassy
Chulalongkorn University (INDA)
(2010-2017)
Ekamai International School
Cum laude in Business Education Diploma 3.54 GPAX
Recognitions and Honorary Mentions (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
INDA Parade
Research Tools INDA Design Build: Ceramics Experimentation Geographical Information System (GIS)
(01/2020)
DEX 2019: Crafting Material Performance (Designer, Fabricator, Exhibitor,) Disjunction Studio CO-op Samyan Mitrtown Exhibition (06/2020 - 08/2020)
Design Construction for Community
Selected for Inda Parade Exhibition
(Designer, Coordinator, Manager) Adjunct Professor Antonio Bernachi + INDA
(2019)
(05/2018 - 06/2018)
Nominee for Supercrit’s Presentation
(05/2019 - 06/2019)
INDA Parade: SuperCrit
Additional Skills
Design Competition: Fling Design Competition: Evolo Skyscraper
Work Experiences (01/2021 - 03/2021)
Primary Workshop: Internship
3D Modelling Rhinoceros 3D
Sketch Up Zbrush Sculpting Autodesk Maya Agisoft Metashape V-ray Rendering Blender
Design Tools Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe Indesign Adobe After Effects Autocad
Workshop Tools CNC Machine
Laser Cutting 3D Printing
Working Skills
Research Analysis Graphic Design Architectural Design Effective Communication Academic Writing
Contents
01 Virtual Overlays
02 Global Intelligence Sharing Network
03 The Future of Ladprao
The textures and materials together are combined into a variety of elements that could be rendered and uploaded onto the space. With the influences from the influencers taking over the space, the space itself is now filled with unlimited Possibilities of things that could be changing all the time.
A global intelligence sharing network that will link people of different backgrounds together through a series of workshops. Going through the process of unpacking the embodied energy of the building.
A new typology of “Parasitic Architecture” that does not rely on the host but yet does not exist without the host.
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An intervention in Ladprao degenerate community that will help improve people’s quality and way of life.
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04 Cohabitation with Data, Waste, and Radioactivity We are Self-Combustable, Collectively and Individually. Explores a new world where waste is not just waste anymore #TheCloudisARealPlace
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05 The Front Curtain: Tableau Vivant
06 Built Projects + Other Works
A proposal for an immersive theatre; a form of performance that involves the immersion of the spectator in the drama itself
Ceramics Experimentation Crafting Material Experience Design Construction for Community Architectural Services Studies
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01 Virtual Overlays The textures and materials together combined into a variety of elements that could be rendered and uploaded onto the space. With the influences from the influencers taking over the space, the space itself is now filled with unlimited Possibilities of things that could be changing all the time, always updating to the ongoing trends in social media.
Each material and texture has its own properties that determines its value giving each one a price tag, concerning the resolutions, render quality, bumps, diffuse, etc. Overlaying each property into a single material that overlays the space.
As a result, the space itself was taken over by a person’s influence, style, power, and wealth. Composing a new type of space that his or her influences determines what is private and what is public.
This project explores the Hypebeast subculture that can be consisted of 2 groups of people: The influencer and the followers. Referring to the influencer of the subculture,they go to popular places in which can be found according to the locations and hashtags that are Hype. The “Hype Power” system allows the influencer to really influence the environment around them literally. The system works in series of augmented layers and features that are generated or influenced by an influencer found at a certain space
Digging deeper into the subculture, Hypebeast, Thonglor is one of the most popular places to hangout. People often go to places in thonglor during the day for cafes and in the evening for bars and clubs. Browsing through Geo-tagged Photos on the instagram through locations and hashtags, I have found a dozens of photos of people dressing super expensive going to these places while posing and then uploading their posts to instagram Courtyard 72 was one of the places in Thonglor where I have found it to be active both during day and night. It is filled with lives and fun all in the same place. The place functions as two different identities during the day and then changes at night to become something else. People come with their cameras and a perfect outfit for photo taking. There are 2 parties in the space interacting with each other: the Influencers and the Followers, then there’s a third party called bots or click farms, where they come in from outside the site manipulating the likes and activities that are happening on the social media platforms of the influencers. The locations of these click farms that are operating are located in the outskirts or suburbs of bangkok.
The drawing illustrates the overlays of the influences taking over the space that could be happening in the Courtyard 72. Concerning the different types of resolution that could be happening in the space. The properties of the material and qualities of the images being processed by the influence of the influencers. How the space has dynamics in itself, displaying how the space is being occupied in the area in the middle of the building which is the courtyard itself, and the deck on the second floor where people usually come and hangout there. It also contains the information where the geo-taggged photos are being tagged and uploaded corresponding to the space. The photogenic angles where people pose at a certain angle in the space. Also, the overlays of the possibilities illustrate how the area could be taken over by the different levels of overlays that are happening concerning the properties of it, the mesh counts, the bumps, the surfaces of the elements.
The space of Courtyard 72 was being taken over by the influencers occupying the space. There are varieties of textures and materials and could be rendered to the environment around them depending on their influences in the space. Each texture has its own specific properties that will determine the level of the power each one has over in the space. The textures and materials together combined into a variety of elements that could be rendered and uploaded onto the space. With the influences from the influencers taking over the space, the space itself is now filled with unlimited Possibilities of things that could be changing all the time, always updating to the ongoing trend in social media.
I classified the influencers into 3 levels of influences, as their level of influences of their HypePower will create a certain level of impact in the space, known as: Noob influencers, Super Influencers, and Super duper hype influencers. It is where the matter of resolutions, qualities, textures, materials, and the details of the pixels come into play. According to the influences that each person is emitting, it is deciding whether the elements that they are generating around them or the environment that are being rendered or changed will have expensive textures, or very pixelated resolutions
A simulation of how the space could potentially be transformed after it was affected by the influencer who are taking over the space. Each element of the space will be carefully calculated and processed in order to be able to represent the type and the style of the person occupying and dominating it. Through textures of material and each element being added, the space would be totally transformed and presents a new atmosphere that is constant changing corresponding to the person dominating it.
02 Global Intelligence Sharing Network A global intelligence sharing network that will link people of different backgrounds together through a series of workshops. People will be going through the process of unpacking the e mbodied energy of the building. People will be involved in the process of deconstructing and constructing the materials. Establishing a community where people will be sharing their designs or construction hacks under the hashtag called #sharemyhacks #fromNarkomfin.
Narkomfin communal apartment was constructed with the purpose of being a Social Condenser. It was built in 1928, the purpose of the building was to support the emancipating women from domestic drudgery, freedom rights in Russia, and to promote a communal living lifestyle in the Soviet Society. Unfortunately, the campaign became stale after the building was finished and many of the qualities of the building were left behind and became obsolete.
There were many spaces in the building that failed its purpose as to promote the idea of communal living lifestyle. The shared corridors located on the first and fourth floor of the building forces people to meet and get acquainted with each other whether they prefer it or not. There are 2 staircases located at each side of the building where people on each floor are sharing it.
The layout of the building affects how people circulate through the building. The two shared corridors allow people from different floors to encounter each other on the daily basis. This arrangement causes people from different profiles or backgrounds to meet. The diagram illustrates how each type of units are arranged into each floor. The apartment was divided into 6 types of units: Unit F, 2F, K, L, Ginzburg, and the penthouse. The building is a concrete structure and it is a constructivist structure. With each unit varies in terms of size and functions, it affects the general profile of the people who are living in each type. For example, unit F is the smallest therefore it is the cheapest. So people with low income can afford this type of unit.
The process of demolishing the communal building of Narkomfin that became obsolete. The drawing illustrates the process of extraction of materials and harvesting it. It explains the overall outcome of harvested materials being extracted from the building. In which in this case are mostly concrete, wood, bricks, stones, and steel. It also provides a basic guide of how those harvested materials could be transformed into something that can later be used to construct something else.
Dissecting the components and parts of composing the ideal kitchen island for each unit in the apartment that needs it. It explains the 3 main aspects that a kitchen needs which is water, air, and power in order to sustain the kitchen to be able to function properly. The concept of the kitchen is how people can use those materials that were harvested from the process of demolition of the communal building to build this structure. For example, chunks of concrete or panels of wood. It also explains the basic function of the kitchen and how some of the new technologies have to be added to the design in order to construct it.
Through the process of constructing the kitchen island, with limited space, people would be able to build furniture that can be used in their unit while constructing their ultimate goal, the kitchen. This process allows people to be able to transform concrete or other materials into something that can be used within their unit, not just lying around making the unit even more cramped. When it reaches the point where all of the materials are transformed and prepared, then people can get rid of the furniture and combine those designs into something even bigger.The process of incremental construction would provide people with the knowledge of how to join concrete together, joining wood and concrete, or water-proofing the concrete. It is the process that people can learn and do it by themselves. Introducing the process of annotating different areas and parts of the building with stickers and tapes. Indicating people who participated in the workshop of which part of the building is made from which type of material and is safe or not safe to demolish. It helps guide people intoestablishing a better system of tearing a building down and extracting materials from it. For example, the locations of the rebar inside the wall or the parts of the wall where it is a load-bearing wall so that people would not be demolished randomly and hurt themselves. A widespread phenomenon of people changing the way things are being acquired and constructed. Starting initially at Narkomfin, Moscow, the activity of people who started to harvest materials and process them through the process of demolishing the unwanted structures and spaces to produce something better. This workshop is a solution in response to the growing problem of plastic wastes in Russia and at the same time solving the arising problem within the apartment.
The drawing displays the atmosphere of the workshop when it is being held at Narkomfin. The workshop is turning the communal building into an ongoing construction site where people are constantly participating and building things. People would be taught how to use materials that they harvested from it and build something else that could be used to modify the workshop or modify their own unit in the apartment. They will be designing things that will change and improve their lives. Showing glimpses of the materials that composed the communal building. Color stickers and tapes are being applied to the surfaces of the walls and floors to indicate to people where they can demolish and where they should not touch. Scaffolding structures are being installed so that people can reach the structure easier. In the drawings, Rebars are being displayed where concrete parts were knocked off.
Narrative: It all started at Narkomfin, a communal building located in Moscow, Russia. There are many problems in the buildings about spaces being shared among occupants and the layout of the unit which causes the economic differences in people. Ranging from the smallest to the largest unit the gap size is 80 square meters where people in the smallest units don’t have a kitchen in their apartment. They have to use these facilities in the communal building, located across the bridge connected to their residential building. The problem arises when people start installing makeshift kitchens. It was being illegally installed inside the stairs, ruining the place. Most of the people in the building came together and concluded a consensus that less and less people are using and maintaining the communal facility so it would be better off if they demolish and make a better use of it. So the occupants in the building started taking things out of the building but without proper knowledge, some of them got hurt. One of the occupants in the building came up with a protocol of annotating each part of the building of where it can be touched or safe to tear down. Pam, who was an architect at that time, saw the incident and decided to intervene. She compiled protocols and manual guides for people to be able to deconstruct the structure and then transform those materials and construct them for a better use such as furniture or a new kitchen for themselves. With the workshop being established people started to build things and it resulted in many creative designs and inventions. Pam then later established a community where people will be sharing their designs or construction hacks under the hashtag called #sharemyhacks #fromNarkomfin. The workshop grew bigger and better as a proper system was established. It spread to other buildings in the rest of the world where each building that decides to deconstruct and construct parts of their building or structure wants to adapt this workshop to their site.They will be receiving a workshop starter pack which includes 3 protocols: color coding protocol, material preparation protocol, and do(s) and don’t(s) protocol, molds for concrete, and a template for when they want to publish their design of furniture hack to the community w ith hashtag tagging #sharemyhacks #from (wherever places they are hacking from).
03 The Future of Ladprao Community “Introducing a new typology of parasitic architecture that does not rely on the host but yet does not exist without the host” Each house in this neighborhood has its own typology and way of assembling. Most of the house is constructed by wood planks, timber sticks, and zinc sheets for the roof. Making the structure insecure and without the use of a decent concrete foundation the materials are deteriorating.
The proposal is a steel structure with variations of customizable features to adapt to the everyday lives of the people. Providing accommodations, generating more free space, and answers to the people’s functioning way of things. The structure will be color coded and classified in 2 colors which is Pink and Blue. Depending on the existing typology of the house, determines the type of parasite structure that attaches to it. The color types are also to prevent the proposal from eating away too much of the spaces in the canal. The Pink structure is expanding horizontally, providing more space on the same level. This typology can be done with houses that has a lot of open space in the canal at the back of their homes. While the Blue expands vertically saving space that will be occupied by the structure and people will be able to have multiple storeys of space at the back of their homes. With each house being so different and different people who are living requires different functions and necessities, the structure is designed in a way that people can adapt and be able to add on to it. For example, people can create a clothes hanger out of the steel structure or a bench. The space will then later become a potential social space where each house can be connected through the walkways of these structures. In the future, it is expected to be a place where people can spend time and connect with other people. Not only their neighbors but also the people who are passing by in the canal. Welcome to the future of Ladprao Communities. There are 3 points where the structure is in contact and connects with the house which is 2 underneath the structure and 1 on the roof. Each steel beam will be extended to reach the end or the front of each house and secure the structure. It also shows the amount of space that the parasite structure is providing to the house. It is very crucial on how each element will be joining the other because the main objective of this proposal is to fix the problem of structural instability.
A complete research on how the house in this community is being constructed. To be able to understand how the proposal structure can connect to the existing house, I must be able to understand how it is joined together. The analysis of the joints and connections of how each element is constructed allows me to be able to design the parasite structure that interlocks and connects to help support the existing ones.
04 Cohabitation with Data, Waste, and Radioactivity We are Self-Combustable, Collectively and Individually. #TheCloudisARealPlace In the future speculation, I think about how we could have adapted these two issues together because each one of them, if we look closely, existed parallel along with each other. Both of them consumes energy, both of them are going to go through the process of self-combustion, both of them are generating heat as a medium, and both of them actually take up actual physical space on our planet.
Chonburi is prominent for its touristy spots such as Pattaya or Koh Larn but it is also known to be overpopulated with trash. Physical waste is a matter that we created everyday whether it’s drinking water from a plastic bottle because the second we threw it away it became waste. On the other hand, we are also constantly generating digital waste without knowing it. Digital waste is when you upload 10 seconds of instagram stories. Showing Chonburi in a Territorial scale mapping out all the locations of the data centers that are located in the province and along with all the physical waste of trash that is growing. Including garbage dumps, landfills, recycling centers, and incinerators. It is also a collection of waste throughout the year and how the amount of waste started accumulating. #TheCloudisaRealPlace, everything you do on your phone leaves a carbon footprint and those things require power and it consumes energy to maintain. In a place called Data Centers, data centers are located all over the world because every company and business are now taking their things digital. Dat a Centers are a place where every online activity is recorded. Where thousands of computers are always running and there is also a backup system running to make sure that if the system crashes, everything must be running smoothly.
Studying the waste sites on a smaller scale, I explored ways that waste is managed. One of the most interesting methods is a garbage dump located on Koh Larn, an island which is about 40 minutes away from the mainland. Here, they called it Solid Integrated Waste Landfills, what they are doing here is dumping trash in layers. 20 centimeters of soil and top with 30 centimeters of trash, this process is to cool down the trash and to maintain the trash not to self-combust. All of the trash has been accumulating since 2010 and currently the amount is at 70,000,000,000 tons and not a single of them has been taken out since. The only way now for trash to disappear is for it to self-combust.
In the future,” WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE WITH WASTE” Both Digital waste and Physical waste. Waste are discarded after first use Waste don’t have values Wastes are unwanted things Waste is Geographical Waste are categorized In the past until present now, we deal with waste by: Putting them in the incinerator, Landfills or dumpsite, Waste are being recycled, Waste are being layered, Wastes are being compressed. So with all that process, waste is still there somewhere on our planet, taking up space or maybe taking up less space than before it was in other forms. In chonburi, waste is self-combusted when it is layered in the landfills.The process is spontaneous. In the future, where digitalization will be taking over our society. People would be so dependent on the digital layer in their lives where everything would and can be done on your phones. With this larger amount of phone capacity that it will be doing, it will emit an even larger amount of radiation. This amount of radiation will be causing things around it chemical reaction and eventually self combust. In my Future speculation, We can ACCELERATE this process of SELF-COMBUSTION With our phones becoming the Catalyst. In the future speculation, I think about how we could have adapted these two issues together because each one of them, if we look closely, existed parallel along with each other. Both of them consume energy, both of them are going to go through the process of self-combustion, both of them generate heat as a medium, and both of them actually take up actual physical space on our planet.
We design and live in a world that is constantly generating waste. Now we are in a transition period where some things started to self-combust and some things don’t. We started thinking about the question of ‘what is actually waste’ or ‘what is waste, exactly?’. In my future speculation, in the year 2040, almost every single thing is done digitally or virtually. We rely heavily on our phones and devices more than ever. Phone signals would be way stronger and steadier due to the fact that our lives depend on it. A single phone usage would emit a larger amount of radiation compared to 20 years back when it took 4 phones to pop one single kernel of popcorn. People’s bodies would have been modified by technology to withstand these huge amounts of networks of radiation but other physical matters don’t. Everything would be counting down to the moment of self-combust or even decomposition. Values of things would not be given according to its function or worth anymore but instead things will be determined by their period or duration before it self-combust. (its ability to withstand the phone)
05 The Front Curtain: Tableau Vivant A proposal for an immersive theatre; a form of performance that involves the immersion of the spectator in the drama itself
The Front Curtain is a proposal for an immersive theatre; a form of performance that involves the immersion of the spectator in the drama itself. In the current information age where digital platforms play an increasingly large role in our daily activities, this project challenges the trend of virtual entertainment and instead proposes a space of extreme tactility and heightened sensory experiences. These experiences transport audiences to new and alternate worlds where they are part of the scenography; inhabiting the stage itself and interacting with performers through a range of activities including role playing, historical re-enactments, immersive dining and other dramatized art forms.
The Front Curtain repurposes and extends Bangkok’s historical Greenhouse Building situated at Saranrom Palace Park. The building’s historical facade is aggregated, distorted and refigured using set design methods typically applied to stage sets like forced perspective and other forms of trompe l’oeil. This new facade makes further allusions to theaters and stage sets through the use of billowing fabric as the building envelope - a nod to the billowing fabric of a theater’s grand drape or front curtain. The interior reveals the space beyond the fourth wall and reimagines the exposed fly systems the theatrical rigging systems of ropes, blocks, pulleys, counterweights and related devices as part of the immersive theatrical experience.
6.1 Built Projects: INDA Dex: Ceramic Experimentation To design and build ceramic works using digital fabrication and various innovative ceramic making techniques. It is important to understand Thai ceramic and life style as a foundation for this experimentation..
Creating a combination between Chinese and Thai culture, together with pottery as a medium. Exploring about beliefs, traditions and the use of Chinese ceremonial tea cups in Thai-Chinese family homes. I created a set of cups in which can be customized through the combination of 3 colors: red,yellow, and orange that symbolizes and customized to fit for your daily fortune in each day. It will bring happiness, prosperity, fortune, etc. to your home
6.2 Built Projects: Crafting Material Experience Investigating a novel approach for integrated design, where the fabrication process of a composite material actuates and enhances material performance. Our findings so far include a formal vocabulary of initial, pre-stretched geometries and their post-stretched counterparts, as well as comparisons between physical experiments and digital simulations of such composites.
6.3 Built Projects: Design Construction for Community This workshop is aimed to experiment, design and realize school support components and devices for the new studio spaces of INDA at Chulapat 14 building, aiming to explore and promote the value of seemingly (un)necessary spaces of creative exchange.
The devices and elements designed for the new INDA spaces will be developed through highly detailed 3d modeling in Rhino and Blender, with the aid of simplified analysis software like Scan and Solve FEA for structural study. Meanwhile some components will also be developed and refined through prototyping, individually with DIY Kits or using the facilities of INDA Lab, in case they will be safely accessible.
6.4 Architectural Service Study Project Studying and redesigning an existing building in London called Principal Tower. Studying all the services and parts of the building.
Prae Lertprasertkul Pam Contact: (+66)81 824 1236 praelertprasertkul@gmail.com Bangkok, Thailand