Peeraya Suphasidh by Peeraya Suphasidh

A PORTFOLIO: DRAFT #1 Peeraya Suphasidh

PEERAYA SUPHASIDH

2 COLLEGE STREET BOX #1636, PROVIDENCE, RI, 02903 PSUPHASI@RISD.EDU

GOAL

EDUCATIONS

A summer internship position where assistance to projects provide a leap of understanding in the discipline of architecture and the components that lead up to its manifestation.

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Bachelor of Architecture | 2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts | 2013

• Providence, Rhode Island, USA

z'SHELL-ter • Gokana, India

Scenario & Computationa Workshop Hosted by Fransois Roche | 25 June - 25 July 2012

The Royal Danish Acedemy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture • Copenhagen, Denmark

Exchange Student | Spring 2012

Chulalongkorn University • Bangkok, Thailand Summer Liberal Arts Program | Summer 2010 Ekamai International School •

Bangkok, Thailand College Preparatory Diploma with an emphasis in Medicine | 2009

Skolen Ved Kløften • Haderslev, Denmark

AFS Cultural Exchange Student | Fall 2006 - Spring 2007

SKILLS

Computer:Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper, Python Script, Vray, Autocad, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegus Pro

Modeling: Laser-Cutting, Rapid Prototyping Crafts: Constructon Drafting, Hand Rendering, Pen Plotting, Hand Tools & Woodworking tools

WORK EXPERIENCES

Bereau Spectacular, Jiminez Lai • Chicago, USA

Inturnship | Summer 2012

Worked on the "Crown Prince of the Greek School" Rooftop Competition

Department of Architecture Co.,Ltd. • Bangkok, Thailand Architectural Internship | Summer 2011

Plan the interior installations and construction drawings for Zense Restaurant Renovation Project

Atit Design Co.,Ltd • Bangkok, Thailand Architectural Internship | Summer 2010

Shadowed and assisted an architect's daily expeditions

American Institute of Architecture Student (AIAS) • Providence, Rhode Island, USA Active member and volunteer | Spring 2011

Habitat for Humanity • Jacksonville, Florida, USA Volunteer | Spring Break 2011

physical housing construction in framing, roofing, and tiling.

RISD Work-Study • Providence, Rhode Island, USA Reading Room Monitor | Spring & Fall 2011, Spring 2012 Organized books in the department's reading room

Laser Cutter Technician | Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2013 Operate the Laser Cutter on shifts

Sermsil Art Institute • Bangkok, Thailand

Artist Apprentice: assisted artist in their daily work | Summer 2009

NATIONALITY LANGUAGES

THAI THAI, ENGLISH, DANISH

TO whom it may concern: 4rd year architecture student completing a 5 year professional program at RISD, USA. An exchange student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. (2012) I'm born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, spent a year abroad as an cultural exchange student in Haderslev, Denmark (2007).

Rather than writing in references to other works or my views/understandings of the current built world, I'd like to share with you the process and experience from my foundation year design studio final assignment at RISD (May 2010). I spend weeks gathering oak seeds; multiple trips to the same spot and spent as long as I could under the trees, picking every last broken wings. The piece was on memories - how things attained with time through the body continues to reflect upon the collected. I laid and glued each individual seeds, piecing one by one the fragmented into a flat square roughly 5 by 5 feet. This is done on a sheet of cardboard laid out across table and chairs of a double freshman dormitory room. I wrapped and shield the sheet of seeds with the corrugated cardboard and walked it downhill to our studio, trying to position my body and the kite-like item as aerodynamically as the length of my out-stretched arms allowed me to. At lunch hour of the review day, after the first half of the class had presented and headed out, I rushed my agenda of shutting all the window with black foam core and masking the sides with duct tapes. Tables, seats, the wall and everything else in the room sank and blend into one with the dark - the tiniest glimmer of light passing through the gap between few poorly placed making tapes present itself with the purest white I'd ever seen. Turning the electrical light switch on and letting the class in, I shafted pieces of paper underneath the door after them and turned off the light again. Having trained to the position of one specific foam core with has been cut and fixed with a piece of tin foil, I walked myself with a sharpened pencil in hand and poke a hole into the membrane of the foil, allowing a beam of projection into the chamber I've created. A very faint up-side down image of the building next to our studio and its light blue backdrop appear on the suspended sheet of seeds: a camera obscura. For the next twenty minute or so, things were silent. Nobody spoke, eyes caught on the image as they adjusts to the dark and makes out what is projected. Details of the building starts to appears, soon the moving clouds and the shadow they cast. All bleached and reappearing as the sun overcasts through the envelope of the earth. So resumed the day and my first experience of transforming a space - a place, with the simple-most materials and tools, and a naive logic of creation. One and a half year later, after 3 architecture studios and half a semester abroad, those memories still lingers and have influences on others emerging ones. I trust in the assembly of things in space and their abilities to provoke new apparatus onto the lived world. I wish to learn and advance the methodology of creating things; the essence and the process of its becoming. By meditated means of explorations, at many different levels, certain things become clearer while other fades away. Points of pauses and points of departures, all interconnected, leads to an imaginative end. I'm interested in the process, more so of capturing its trajectories. Like millions of butterflies in mid-air at the same time, all pinned at different point in space - we look at them from different spectrum of the looking glass. The expanse of the possibilities is extremely alluring, the speculation of space, limitless. The world is confusing and odd, yet never fails to fascinate - I have too many things in questions. Please allow me to put forth the person that I am, things I've imprinted as experiences, and all the curiosity I have in the embodiment of the constructs to assist you with your on-going and upcoming discoveries. I am happy to have an interview via skype: beanpeeraya & will be available for a full time position from June 25th to September 5th 2012. Sincerely, Peeraya Suphasidh

INDEX: Resume 3 Cover Letter 5 Flow: An Installation 8 Constructed Landscape 11 Bridgeport Ecological Map 12 Main & Gold Pocket Park Proposal 14 Remmington Arms Site Proposal 23 Z'shellTer/Complaint(ion) 47 Integrated Building System: Solar Wall

Architectural Design Context Model 61 Conceptual Site Model 63 Mosular Cardboard Chair 64 It Has Been Here: A Response

Digital Representation: Hub Hub

Structure & Chance 88 Fin II 90 Parts Apart 92 Remember 94

Full-Scale Study of Gravel

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Constructed Landscape

Instructor: Gina Ford & Eamonn Hutton Fall 2013

The objective of this studio is to explore how landscape design and operations can creatively respond to the constraints of limited funding and resources. To form a collective understanding of the city of Bridgeportits history, built form, ecology, and community, we initiate our studies by first mapping out specific layers of the city context. The following two maps depicts the ecologies in Bridgeport. Traditionally, we think of ecology as only existing in the green spaces we allotted specifically for natural occupations - as park and forest. The second map presents the expanse in which ecology is present but that we do not account for. The opportunities in which the quality of lives can be enhanced by these spaces is immense.

Existing Site Conditions

Main & Gold Park Proposal

Instructor: Gina Ford & Eamonn Hutton Fall 2013

Main & Gold park is a pocket park situated in the most urban district of Bridgeport. The park is surrounded by stores, offices, and an adjacent residential building. The main users of park are thus the workers from the surrounding work spaces who traverse the neighborhood by day and the residences who lives and uses the space by night and weekends. The existing elements in Main & Gold park does not accommodate the diversity of demands given based on its central location.

ARIZONA RIVER SKIPPERS

RIVER JACK COBLER CRUSHED RED LAVA

PEA GRAVEL WASHED GRAVEL NATURAL STONE

SAND

NATURAL STONE DUST CLAY

SILT FINE

PEA GRAVEL

STONES

CLAY

FINES

INTERMEDIATE

WHITE PEABLE STONE GRAVEL

COARSE

4” 2” 1” 3/4” 1/2” 1/4” 1/8” 1/16” 1/32” #40 #200

1/25” gravel (grævl) —n 1. an unconsolidated mixture of rock fragments that is coarser than sand 2. geology a mixture of rock fragments with diameters in the range 4--76 mm

Characteristics of Different Types of Gravels

The materiality of gravel is explored and is used to differentiate and define spaces

Full Section

A movie screen is placed atop the wall of the residential building beside the park is activate and provide possibilities for a movie viewing event for the near by residents.

Full Site Plan

Different sizes of gravel allots for paths and definitions of the spaces people interacts within the extent of the park.

Rendered View of Seating Components

A grass slope extending out from the gravel ground provide seating/lounging surface for user using the park for an extended time while stone blocks provide a kind of 'quick' seatings for working people who only need the space for a short period. This provide opportunity for temporary entities such as food trucks to activate the square at certain hours.

Detailed Section

Final Model

Amongst the In-Betweens

Instructor: Gina Ford & Eamonn Hutton Fall 2013

The Remmington Arms site is a long, narrow site comprised of approximately 40 acres. The site is bound to the east by a channelized river and to the west by a residential street. The south side of the site abuts US Route 1. Immediately north of the site is a 300 acre former ammunitions testing ground. The grade change across the site from Bond Street to the Yellow Mill Creek is as much as 20 feet in some locations. The site is located along the border of the Mill Hill and East Side neighborhoods, both of which are under-served in park acreage and park amenities. If it were rehabilitated as a neighborhood park (a scale of park traditionally considered most valuable to residents),this site would greatly contribute to the quality of life in these neighborhoods. However, the City of Bridgeport's Public Facilities staff is already struggling to maintain the existing City parks. Adding an additional 40 acres of parkland would overstretch the staff, and lead to an overall decline in quality of maintenance. The design of the Remmington Arms site will address the challenge of building a public space that takes in to account the economic reality of Bridgeport.

Views from Lake-View Cemetary

Among the In-Betweens: A Productive Landscape I am above, I am below. I am away, I am close-by. I close my eyes. The 40 acres of site all laid out from across the river. The analysis of the site bring to attention the already existing passive landscape bodies - Lake-View Cemetery, Success Lake, and Remmington Woods. Turning the Remmington Arms site into another passive landscape will create a surplus of these static bodies. The site approach is to turn this vacant body into an active/productive landscape which wilt not only provide the much needed recreational space but also accumulate findings for its own entity. The project aim to provide the community with a shared garden space that nests the perimeter of the active fields within its boundary.

Site Context Analysis

Immediate Context Analysis

Phrase 1

Phrase 2

Phrase 3

Phrase 4

Phrase 5

Development Stratigies

#1 First activating the entire site by creating an a road that allow connection to the Stillman Pond. This aim to acknowledge the immidiate community of the comming developments

#2 A green house installed to generate initial income for the next phrase of the project. Public and private investment will be done to initiate constructions.

#3 Young trees are planted in a spaced grid (30'x30') and are left to mature. The trees that perish will make openings for different programs.

#4 The trees are re-distributed to a specific areas. A dense orchard next to the greenhouse and opennings in the middle of the site to allow for play/learning spaces in-between.

#5 The installment of a community center and a harvest house marks the completion of the project. Willow trees are now planted along the riverfront to revive the soil quality and make up bio-fuel source.

Site Components

Plant Lives Involved The tree lives are the core of the project. Alterations of species depending on their life spans allow the landscape to continously changes whithout having a period of time where the whole site is empty. The varring heigthts allow for Not only are they used for their generative properties, they define the space in which they take root.

Key Plan The recreational programs on site in infused witht he productive landscape of the orchard and the willow forest. Community center can give classes on how to care for these trees and utilizing the in-between areas.

Detailed Plan The recreational programs on site in infused witht he productive landscape of the orchard and the willow forest. Community center can give classes on how to care for these trees and utilizing the in-between areas.

View from WIllow Plantation

View from Walnut Plantation

Density Study

Study Model of Tree Density

View of the Completed Construct

Z'sHeLL'ter

Scenario hosted by F.roche Computation hosted by Ezio Belsette

June-July 2013 “ It would have been the last Leaving my condition unresolved I would have felt……… this liquid light Running through my hands Despite the courage and the fall……… Despite the spikes………the suffering It would have been my blood Amidst the stars……… the Aries It would have been a sign On the battlefield of my body And i would have waited for them Tangled up in desires and abandon It would have taken my breath To out throw the lamentation And when the rain falls tomorrow It would have trapped……… my last complaint “

View of the Completed Construct

View of the Scaled Model

View of Building on Site

Integrated Building System

Instructor: Laura Briggs Works in cooaboration with Alex Diaz & Shalini Vimels. Fall 2013

A hypothetical exercise in which the system that breath life into the building is also used as the skeleton of the project. The programatic requirement of the building is simply lab space which must accomadiate for flexibilities within each floor and also several larger meeting spaces. We explored and employed the use of a 'Solar Wall'. Solar wall are metal enclosure usually attached to the light recieving wall of the building to trap and accumulate solar heat and transfere them onto the air inside of the building. The transaction of heat is done through the HVAC unit at the rooftop where the heat in the air is extracted and redistributed. We widen the thickness of the solar war - this is where we nest our circulation. A half floor steps between the lab spaces and the corridoor.

Ground Floor

Typical Floor

Roof

HVAC Plans

Ground Floor

Typical Floor

Roof

Mechanical Floor

Floor Plans

Circulation Envelope Section

West-East Section

South - North Section

Southern Facade

Eastern Facade

Northern Facade

Western Facade

Typical Structural Plan

West-East Structural Section

Detail Section

View of Stairs and Corridoor

View of Lab Spaces

Model Circulation Flow

SITE INTERPELLATION: PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND 8'x6'

Informations observed on the site are translated into a physical model. Vertically oriented pieces of butterboards and chipboards depict the flows of elements around the site; the lengths of those vertical components show the different rates in which those elements travel. Horizontally oriented chipboards suggest static landforms and city fabrics where objects in motion delay or take pauses.

Conceptual Drawing

Conceptual Model

Conceptual Site Model “Grass produces neither flower nor sermon on the mountain, nor airplane carrier, but in the end it’s always grass that has the last word. It fills emptiness, grows between, and amongst other things. The flower is beautiful, the cabbage useful, the poppy makes us mad, but grass is overflow.” / Henry Miller

Modular Cardboard Chair Modular units are developed to accomodiate the human body.

Photograph of Chair

Site Plan

IT HAD BEEN HERE: A RESPONSE “Grass produces neither flower nor sermon on the mountain, nor airplane carrier, but in the end it’s always grass that has the last word. It fills emptiness, grows between, and amongst other things. The flower is beautiful, the cabbage useful, the poppy makes us mad, but grass is overflow.” / Henry Miller The following body of work presents an on-going exploration and exploitation of the land topography as a surface structure, in which its curvatures, bumps, and burrows is used to initialize series of operations.. Abstracted completely from its context, the study attempts to ground about the land based neither on as a form nor a defined function. But rather as a remapping /redefinition of the given as a place of departure. The allotted boundary of the site is printed with topographic lines. The red circles represent the reading of this curvature on the land., the intensity of the changes defined by the size of each circle. Differentiation between one area to the other is subtle but readable

View of Lab Spaces

The plotted boundary of the site is printed with topographic lines. The red circles represent the reading of this curvature on the land., the intensity of the changes defined by the size of each circle. This present a subtle reading of the site.

The fractmented site fabrics are then pulled apart form their origins -distortion of the shape and orientation occurs among those parts. This in-between space between the origin and the projected is taken into interest.. The level of sensitivity can be given interchangeably to various locations at different scales,. Although the project has not come to a point of closure and the abstracted has yet been materialized, I hope it present a formative departure from the natural given.

Zoomed In Moments

Site Plans Demonstrating Deformations

Zoomed In Moments

View #1

View #2

Zoomed In Moments

DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS Generative Modeling using Grasshopper for Rhinocerous 3D

Circular patterns are generated based off of the quantity and proximity of lines from a basic grid. The pattern is then projected onto surfaces and extruded to create a volumetric mass ( bottom right). A second series of circular patterns are projected from the volume to spawn expansive points in space (top left). A closer look at the space aggregated and defined by the mentioned process allow one to begin to describe potentiality of program and uses.

Initial Studies Model

Potential Site View

The project acts as a floating recreational hub where progressions of planes accommodate public performance spaces, open basking areas, and broad passage ways.

View #1

Variations in elevation and density of each plane in combination with the anatomy of the configurated mass set up different moments where users can diversely utilize.

View #2

Structure and Chance May 2010

Orange Peals, Pins, Paper, Black Pen

Nothing happens exactly the same way twice. 93 orange peals are collected over a period of two weeks - each pealed to make a singular surface. Not a single one of them resulted the same. In the final installation curated these orange peals according to the date and time of day in which they were de-bodied .

Photograph of Final Installation

Fin #2

March 2013 Pen Plotter

Programing with Python language, a computed drawing based on the logic of repetitions and scale is plotted with an old HP pen plotter.

Parts Apart October 2009 Mahogany

Dear parts of a deer: its nose, its ears, and its hoofs. Placed apart, with no central body. The individual pieces remain parts of the whole.

Photographs of the Pieces

Remember October 2009 Mahogany

I spend weeks gathering oak seeds; multiple trips to the same spot and spent as long as I could under the trees, picking every last broken wings. The piece was on memories - how things attained with time through the body continues to reflect upon the collected. I laid and glued each individual seeds, piecing one by one the fragmented into a flat square roughly 5 by 5 feet. This is done on a sheet of cardboard laid out across table and chairs of a double freshman dormitory room. I wrapped and shield the sheet of seeds with the corrugated cardboard and walked it downhill to our studio, trying to position my body and the kite-like item as aerodynamically as the length of my out-stretched arms allowed me to. At lunch hour of the review day, after the first half of the class had presented and headed out, I rushed my agenda of shutting all the window with black foam core and masking the sides with duct tapes. Tables, seats, the wall and everything else in the room sank and blend into one with the dark - the tiniest glimmer of light passing through the gap between few poorly placed making tapes present itself with the purest white I'd ever seen. Turning the electrical light switch on and letting the class in, I shafted pieces of paper underneath the door after them and turned off the light again. Having trained to the position of one specific foam core with has been cut and fixed with a piece of tin foil, I walked myself with a sharpened pencil in hand and poke a hole into the membrane of the foil, allowing a beam of projection into the chamber I've created. A very faint up-side down image of the building next to our studio and its light blue backdrop appear on the suspended sheet of seeds: a camera obscura. For the next twenty minute or so, things were silent. Nobody spoke, eyes caught on the image as they adjusts to the dark and makes out what is projected. Details of the building starts to appears, soon the moving clouds and the shadow they cast. All bleached and reappearing as the sun overcasts through the envelope of the earth. So resumed the day and my first experience of transforming a space - a place, with the simple-most materials and tools, and a naive logic of creation. Two and a half year later, those memories still lingers and have influences on others emerging ones.

Photograph of Final Installation