PORTFOLIO PRAE WARNITCHAI
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Entwine
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01 Levitate Hovering Above The Water - Winter 4th Year 2018 Bangkok is the leader of technology in Thailand. This Bangkok’s Center of Performance Arts act as a symbol of innovation, therefore this auditorium looks like it is floating by using smaller base than the top floors made possible by using truss and tension ring. The reflecting pool makes it looks like there is no floor supporting the architecture, as if hovering mid-air without floor supporting it. The form also represents the fluidity of sound wave creating this dynamic roof form. This architecture represents Bangkok by being the beacon of technology and future.
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The floating illusion is enhanced by using spider glass system to clad the base of this building.
Ramp
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Reflecting Pool
By using reflecting pool, with dark colored panelling under the water, makes the arc tecture looks like it is hovering in mid-air without ground supporting it.
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The whole concept of this auditorium is dynamic. The Parabolic Space Truss roof is inspired by sound wave movement. The curtain wall surronding the space provides maximum sunlight passing through.
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The form represents the fluidity of sound wave creating dynamic form. The auditorium takes an oval shaped floor plan because it is designed to be seen as entrance from all sides. There is no backside to this building, making it fit to public use and being landmark.
The ramp has two layers : The Top One as the main entrance leading people up to the lobby with stands and cut out to tell the audience story about the starring show in the auditorium at that moment. The One Below is the entrance which can be use while it rains, using the depth of beam to create this walkway.
Riverside Garden Sound Wave Garden People come to this Performance Arts Center for entertainment. Every corner of this auditorium should be able to entertain the guests, including the garden.The garden is filled with music from the speakers located in this sound wave inspired garden. As a landmark along The Chaophraya River, this auditorium has no back side. Everyone can see this architecture from every angle. To represents the sound wave movement in this auditorium, the roof is designed to have this dynamic form.
Concert Hall’s Dynamic wall flows smoothly The fan shaped concert hall is designed to hold up to 1200 people. The wall and ceiling is cladded with Fori Decoustics wood veneered panels with mini perforations that has NRC of 0.80. The walls are smoothly folds and curved creating dynamic to the interior.
Amphitheatre
Ever changing mood of performance The outdoor amphitheatre background is the river with sunset. Stage’s form resembles the base of the main architecture. The water below the stage changes color for each mood of different performance.
LED Hole The other entrance that shoots up to the lobby Other than walking up on the ramp. This is another entrance access by crossing the reflecting pool. The Hall can holds 1500 audiences before letting them into the lobby and the concert hall. The Hole cuts through 4 floors, creating this huge tube. LED screens are installed onto the tube surface. The LED display showcases the posters, entertainment and performances’ details for the people boarded on this long one-flight escalator.
Free Form Structure Space Truss Free Form Roof The Free Form Roof is possible because of the Space Truss with the diameter of 0.50m, which allows the structure to flows along the curve. The Structure of the base uses trusses combine with tension rings. The tension ring is essential for holding the structure together. The columns on the 2nd to 4th floors are placed at the intersection point of the trusses and post-tensioned floor.
02 Entwine Reshaping living space - Fall 2017 3rd year
Human has been living along side nature in the past, but as the city grows larger, human contact with nature has decreased. This project design approach aims to improve the life quality of the people who lives in the complex by bringing nature back. The garden is inserted into the central court, allowing all apartment complex to have access to the view and natural ventilation. By being closer to the garden provides relaxing atmosphere for the people.
Wrapping
Explode Diagram showing each individual layers Each layers of design has its own system. The facade wraps around the whole architecture to seamlessly holds every system together. The Hole allows people outside to see the garden court.
The Hole Structure
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Timber Facade Gradation
The Hole creates the organic frame for the garden inside to provide natural ventilation for all apartment complex The hole is made of reinforced concrete structure to hold the top floor up.
Timber is help creates the feeling of being home and close to nature. The timber facade is fixed onto reinforced concrete structure by steel pipes.
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here are 2 types of room. The tudio type and 1-bedroom ype. Every room has its own utside view and garden view qually.
Flowing Facade Timber Facade Flows Along The CurveThe facade is designed to have organic waves that flow along the perimeter of this serviced apartment. The facade pattern has openings to provide vision to the outside world for each room. While also helps provide shades where its needed especially the heat accumulation area.
03 Different Difference makes different experience Spring 2nd Year 2017 This community center is located in Bang Lumpoo district and lies along the Chaophraya River in Bangkok, Thailand. The project explores the difference of space, height, dimension,amount of light,direction and form. To see how these factors affect the experience of the people in these different spaces. Each dimension of space benefits variety of function differently. The design considers the height of the ceiling and width of the corridors or rooms. The amount of light that got through into each space is also different , affecting the mood and tone of each area.
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he bearing wall structure tretched along the grid, dividing he building into sets. A set conists of a room and a corridor.
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Planning The Spiral Staircase The Spiral Staircase in the middle of rectangular concrete jungle act as the center of attention. It shoots up taller than all the building. The staircase also provides instant entry to the 2nd floor. Floor Gradation A Corridor + A Room = 1 set In which the corridor uses 1.25m system while the room uses 2.50m system. Each set then gradually elevates up in steps consistently, creating different spaces. Each set has its own windows to let in sufficient natural sunlight.
Exterior Perspective
Exterior shows series of bearing wall structure The Plaza is designed for relaxing and enjoying the view of Chaophraya river along with the architecture.
The Wall’s Hole Punching holes in the bearing wall The hole allows natural ventilation and sunlight to pass through. The tallest wall is overscaled because of the floor gradation. By cutting through the wall creates gateway for activities between bearing walls and also reduces the overscaling.
Structure Reinforced Concrete Structure The whole architecture is made of reinforced concrete structure. Creates harmony in amidst of difference spaces by using the same material all over.
Stair Tower The tower has a very high ceiling not only for the user but also the people seeing this architecture from the street or the river. Its acts as a symbol of this architecture, a landmark. Human can have peaceful mind when climbing up this staircase with extra high ceiling.
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This juvenile detention center concept is to subtly introduce youth to a cornerless architecture. Based on “The Handbook For Correctional Psychologists: Guidance For The Prison Pratitioner” The conventional rectangular shaped space with alot of sharp corners imposes a strong sense of confinement to the occupants.
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Winding of circulation creates the flow of space while not act as a compulsory direction. This allows youth to relax, chooses their own way and be abke to breathe a little. The cornerless circulation helps encourages human interaction providing flow of human. The youth in this architecture therefore can socialize freely.
Rooftop Garden
This architecture is designed to have a roof garden. Locating on top of the ceiling of 2nd floor. The benefits from this roof garden: It acts as a heat insulator for spaces below by decreasing heat absorption through slab roof. It also provides great view for the people on 3rd floor.
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Playground act as the heart of this detention center The children activities revolve around 2 playgrounds. One playground for each gender. Serves as a gathering spot for activities and socializing. The playground is filled with plantation to add more green value to this architecture.
Cornerless Planning Corners make people feel unsafe and tense Every room and space in this architecture is designed to be cornerless by using curved form. The rooms are placed along the circulation which flows in freeform. Creating flow of space and circulation without any corner. The first floor is service area and lobby. The 2nd floor consists of boys sleeping place, cafeteria and shower. The girls zone is separated. The 3rd floor has guards rooms, being on 3rd floor aloows guards to keep watch on these youth.
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Structure
The structure consists of 3 elements: =0.25m-Diameter round reinforced concrete column placed in radius system. =Reinforced concrete band beam with the depth of 0.30m =Post-tensioned slab with the depth of 0.15m
The band beam is designed to reach out to support the walls weight having a margin of 10cm into interior walls. The Post-tensioned slab has the depth of 15cm. The curved staircases are supported by columns.
The Openings
The opening allows air flow in indoor area, with these opening all around the rooms, the architecture is porous and not so opaque.
Better Place for Reforming Children In order to reform children the therapy should surround them. This can be done by designing architecture with these psychology in consideration. The atmosphere of their living space is the way children can be changed from within.
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SCG HEAD QUARTER Limitless Achievement Fall 4th Year 2018 This project explores ‘Perspective’: The 1st Perspective is the 2 buildings on each side of the main tower which the floor gradually opens up. People line of sight will get directed to the main tower.
The 2nd Perspective is the Parabola Coverway which extrude from the main tower and lowered itself down to cover the whole entrance path leading our line of sight to the main tower once again. The Last Perspective, which is the most important, is the tower itself. The tower is pushed in at the center of its round form to create the conceptual line along the height of the tower. Representing SCG’s motto which is ‘Limitless Achievement’ meaning that SCG will always improving and continue to go on to next level in the future without stopping.
Design Concept By taking form of a cylinder the main tower act as the symbol of SCG that will leads the country into the future. Because the symbol should be able to be seen from every side of this architecture. This headquarter serves as the landmark of SCG for Bangkok.
Organic Workspace The Curved Floor Plan This organic floor plan helps set human’s mind free and not restricted to any straight line used in others rectangular floor plan. The seating and workspace are all arranged in free plan without any wall to cut off communication of employees. Curved plan also encourages flow of circulation around the lift core. Well lit with Sufficient Natural Light Sunlight is really important for every workspace. By using the curved floor plan, makes every area gets sufficient sunlight without any harsh corner. The workspace is filled with lights and hanging lamps, providing perfect condition to work in.
The Top Picture presents the workspace in The Morning Working Hour. The Bottom Picture presents the workspace in The Evening Working Hour.
Sky Garden Overlooking the City Rooftop is so popular for bars or hanging out, the reason for this is because human feel relaxed when being in a high area surrounded by nice view. The Rooftop Garden has been done in alot of places already. But this sky garden is a closed space, controlling the air conditioning, pollution, wind flow, noises, heat that comes from the Bangkok city. This creates a peaceful and tranquil garden for employees to enjoy without having to deal with disturbance from the city.
The Ramp Employees can experience the joy of climbing up the ramp and to be able to see the plantation closely. While climbing also served as an exercising routine for employees in the office which normally tends lacks exercise. The Ramp runs along the curtain wall creating loops above the ground. Employees can spend their time exercising here or even just sitting down and enjoy the sky garden.
Planning
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The 2 podium buildings locate on each side of the main tower. The Tower takes form of a cylinder, with lift core in the middle while allowing workspace to wrap around the core.
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Shear Wall+ Frame
The structure system used here is shear wall combines with frame structure in order to hold up tower of 40 floors. The floor structure is post-tensioned system. This architecture’s envelope is curtain wall. But the podium envelope is made of spider system glass. The cover way is made of truss and cable system
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Giant Forest Transporting A Whole Forest Into An Office-Winter 3rd Year 2017 The objective of this project is to create a “smart� work space in Bangkok, Thailand. Smart work place has many possibility but the most important factor is to design an effective work space that the employees can work efficiently in. The giant forest which located along the curtain wall creates the illusion of blurring the line between interior and exterior. The large curtain wall used for controlling condition inside and allows natural sunlight to seek through. Creates the atmosphere of working in the middle of a forest.
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The Up Side Down Ziggurat The form of a ziggurat is the steps which has bigger base than the top. Converting them creates a familiar form of steps but not in the typical way. The base is smaller so the design will look familiar to human but the difference makes the architecture special. Twisting Facade The facade made of twisted steel planks to provid shade and also give privacy to certain work space as needed. Raised Floor The floor is raised in the middle allowing maximum ventilation using the method of tradition Thai house. The parking area can eliminates all problem relating to mold and humidity with enough air flow.
Forested Planning
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Planning The forest in the center helps creates relaxing atmosphere because human can relax their fatigue when looking at green plantations. The employees can then work efficiently and doesn’t stressed out easily. The individual work space partitions provide privacy for each employee. Each person can focus on their work and make the most out of their time. The medium sized rooms are closed rooms which are for private meetings. The cafeteria is located right next to the forest. The employee can enjoy the garden view while eating in their break time.
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Material The roof and floor is made of reinforced concrete. The interior walls used wood cladding creates the atmosphere of working in nature. The transparent curtain wall served as the invisible envelope.
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Structure The roof is made of trusses, there are primary trusses(1.20m depth) and secondary trusses(0.80m depth). The structure system of this architecture is post-lintel system. The center forest has wooden steps for employees to relax and work while enjoying forest view. This creates a casual working space.
Steel Facade Facade The twisted metal planks are fixed to the roofs and the 3rd floor structure. The structure of the whole building gradates in ascending order from bottom to top.