SAIFA SATHAPORN Design and Architecture Portfolio
Educations 2006 - 2018 Assumption College Primary school, High school
Saifa Sathaporn
2016 - 2017 Vidor High School Texas, USA
2018 - 2022 Faculty of Architecture, Chul
International Program in Desi
Bachelor of Science in Archite
Softwares skills 3D modeling
Video
• Rhinoceros 3D
• Videoleap Ed
• Grasshopper
When my mind is free, I frequently question myself could the world be something else rather than what it is now. Through design and architecture, I want to re-explore this complex world to see what qualities and potential are existing in our everyday. For me rather than looking at the same things and what it’s already there, but to think about what it could be - or what could happen next.
Adobe creative suite
Others
• Illustrator
• 3D Print
• Photoshop
• Lasercut
• InDesign
• CNC
• Acrobat
• Microsoft Of
• Google Earth Rendering • Enscape
Birth
June 13, 2000
• Lumion
Origin
Bangkok, Thailand
• V-ray
saifa47426@gmail.com
Tel.
(+66) 81 9105329
Languagues • Thai • English • Chinese
Extra-curricular Activities
Other interests
- Academics -
• Psychology
Fieldworks-DOTS, Archdaily (2019, Morongo Valley, California)
• Photography
Design-build a festival infrastructure in California’s high desert.
• Hiking • Sports
lalongkorn University
Pueng-Pa Kids’ Playground (2021, Chiangrai, Thailand)
ign and Architecture (INDA)
Design a geometrical playground for kindergarten in Chiangrai.
ecture and Design Cyborg Architecture Exhibition (2020, The Shophouse1527) Design and exhibit a complex spatial structure generated from grasshoppers.
ditor by Lightricks Alpine brutalism workshop (2022, France, Italy, Switzerland) Experiencing and recording brutalist architectures in France, Italy & Switzerland. - Community Service Vice president for volunteer camp (2019-2020)
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Volunteer camp for community development on behalf of faculty
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of architecture CU. - Competition eVolo (2019) Group work of designing building for skyscraper competition - Athletics Athlete of faculty of architecture’s football team (2018-2019)
• Model making
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Water Embassy
Cocktail Cathedral
Mycelium Facade
Bkk new Electric Poles
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Thammasat Student Housing
Environmental Technology
Other activities & skills
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Water Embassy (2021) Explore and investigate territory scale water resources and its operation throughout Bangkok territories. Correspondingly breaking Bangkok out into 12 territories and comparing them to each other according to water richness and statistics.Perceiving all 12 territories as an individual small country in order to let them govern themselves, negotiate, or help other neighbour territory(s) in terms of water resources.
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Derive organization structure of embassies from around the world into civic architecture in Bangkok, being water embassy for each territory in the city located at the meet of borders between territories. Above is Bang Sue canal seperate between Territories A and B - depicting 2 out of 12 embassies. 10
Act as representative of its’ territory. The encounter of the civic vision is the rituals of negotiations, transaction of water resources, and make treaty due to water resources.
The embassies are governed by locals. Tending to push citizens to pay more attention to their region’s water management and their water wealth in order to have power to negotiate with other regions. 11
Breaking Bangkok into 12 territories. Due to the fact that the defined area is the existing regions in Bangkok. Thus, the civic edge of this project is the meeting at the border between different territories, which apparently is the canal. Therefore, each territory will have its own identity and characteristic in terms of water richness and resources.
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Citizens watching their ambassadors’ negotiation
Arriving at the territories’ meet point
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The stakeholders are the citizens from each regional territory where they will elect the ambassador and the diplomats team as their representative. In the past, the treaties were made in a luxury room by the government or the municipality wearing nice dress. But in this project, the treaties could’ve been made by the locals and citizens, in the middle of the canals…
Storyboard: treaty of water process
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Territory B’s embassy programs 16
Bangkok’s water path diagram 17
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Cocktail Cathedral (2022) This project is focusing on promotion and protection of Thailand traditional alcohol. Through a series of visits and having dialogue and study the techniques from Thai cocktail mixologist. In parallel, the bar, where people usually go hangout whether talking about their life, work or problems to bartenders. It makes me think of people as well go to cathedral to consult or confession with the priest. So I’m thinking would it be plausible that the community could have a cocktail cathedral? Where the bartender is your “priest”.
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Prototypical Object : Conversation piece with mixologist
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Liqueur
Ice rail
Prototypical Object Components (Plywood, Acrylic, 3D print)
Pourer
Dispenser
Prototypical object as a conversation piece with mixologist. To study Thai cocktail making technique, ingredients, and drink presentation.
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A small space enclosure specifically for a customer and mixologist in having dialogue in customize a cocktail together. The space was design especially to accommodate the presentation and exhibition of the cocktail.
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Components : Customer and mixologist space enclosure (Plywood, Acrylic, MDF, 3D print, Spray paint)
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Prototypical object place on table between customer and mixologists. Customer sit on yellow seat and mixologist on the opposite.
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Myself study mixologist’s technique, routine, and manner. LED light lit up giving bar mood and atmospheric.
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Site : Where Cocktail cathedral also affect the surrounding of Soi Nana. Where building is center and connect every bar in the Soi. Extend landscape as a pavement, letting mixologists from every bar to come meet discuss and making new cocktail once a week. 27
Design development, making iterations, testing form, and focusing on refinement. Deriving architectural language from previous phrases.
Half of cathedral is conversation front and bar, while back of the house is distillery production.
The distillery process is distribute into 5 steps - (1) Raw materials harvesting of sugarcane and molasses and (2) fermentation. (3) Distillation while ingredients start becoming alcohol. (4) Aging and blending spirit in oak wood barrels for years and finally (5) bottling.
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During weekday Cocktail cathedral let mixologists weekend allow customers to visit and talk with mi tail. Half of cathedral is conversation front and
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s in Soi Nana come meet and create new cocktail. While ixologists about their life and customize a unique cockbar while back of the house is distillery production.
The led light is a design language design across cathedral to give a mood and atmospheric like in a bar.
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This studio aiming models to be experimental & explorative. That it can be a storytelling, documentary, drawings, renders, collage… to challenge us and designers that the model can be enough.
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Mycelium Facade (2021) This project proposes a mycelium facade system that will be used to intervene in an aging row house in Bangkok that has a site specific and surrounding condition. Mycelium’s abilities, such as fire resistance, sound absorption, and CO2 sequestration, are being used to evolve the building’s appearance and circumstances where inhabitants have to deal with varying amounts of CO2 and sound at different times of the day. Mycelium facade intervention to evolve plenty of Bangkok outdated facade. Where the inhabitants can design, produce, and assembly by their own corresponding to the program within and location.
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Testing different mycelium species under a control condition such as humidity, temperature, and light sources.
Understanding the characteristic and capabilities of mushroom mycelium. Investigate through experimenting and documenting to see what could be the trigger that would enhance the mycelium yield.
A 1:1 scale prototype. Mold made from woven bamboo. And then the result of the panel when I let it grown after 2weeks. You can see the mycelium is grow over the bam-boo and start eating it. You can made one at home. You just need bamboo, straw, and mycelium. For this 1 panel just cost less than 100baht (3 USD) to make one
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Playing with the method of paper folding to see different geometry and configuration possibilities of hexagon. (The reason I chose hexagon be-cause the advantage of expan-sion or subdivision is possible.)
Digital form finding experiment testing the modularity system as a whole. The parameter that govern the geometry is from environ-mental site analysis. Like sound variation, co2 amount, sun angle, and the program behind the facade.
Design development - start by hexagon grid and remove where necessary such as main entrance. As well as the void created to respond to the program inside the building. Then voronoi pattern were generated act as a scaffolding for plants to climb through, responding to the amount of co2 sequestration need. 38
Resilience capability test
Water repellant
Fire resistant
Durable/ collision absorb
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Infrastructure + Bangkok new Electric Poles (2020) This project is proposing a radically alternative system of electric poles for Bangkok, that will create alternative domestic routines and public protocols. This infrastructure will be the medium to provide half-legalized approaches to our cities’ ecologies and economies. Which could change the way we understand our urban infrastructures. This shows the informality of the new system of poles, that allows adjustments and improvisation, stitching areas of different standard, allowing exchanges in between different contexts, challenging the roles of urban infrastructures.
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Researched the illegal stealing of those infrastructures. Electricity and water stealing, and illegal hacking for examples, suggesting a more “realistically” radical approach to the project.
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So, what if all those informal and illegal appropriations would be acceptable? What if the infrastructure is to support specific needs, or exchanges? What would be the consequences in the way we use our houses or public space?
Everybody would be able to produce energy and filter water at their home, and individually exchange it or sell it through the poles.
oles have a variability. They have difP ferent characteristics depending on the surrounding and contexts of the poles. Also, the hierarchies such as, amount of voltage, materials, contexts all matter to the poles’ identity.
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A manual of steps, to be able to connect and disconnect between your house and the poles. These steps will be divided to the interaction with water or electricity. They should be something that everyone could do. Also a basic application to measure and control the poles “transactions”.
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The new poles will develop adapting to different contexts, forming a family of possibilities. They will all look familiar but, at the same time, different. The poles’ identity depends on their environment and its role in our communities.
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Unit 1. Single Bedroom 1 Bathroom 36 sq.m.
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Thammasat Students Housing (2020) Proposing a student housing for 100 students within a limited of space inside Thammasat campus. Design does not only to house students but to provide shared space for students in campus and connect existing buildings from 3 faculties together. Students will experience the connection between campus and the river since they’re not really inside the building because most of the space are kind of outside like staircases, walkways, and balconies. Instead of just being student apart-ment, it allows students to come use up the space and filling up the space.
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Environmental Technology and Integrative Building System Design (2020-2021) Understanding the fundamentals of building systems: Sanitary and plumbing, lighting and electrical, mechanical and transportation, HVAC, and fire safety. Environmental technology is being used to solve building design problems, sustainable and environmental issues. Based on given functions and contexts, design and specify building systems. Assess and analyze the performance of the building in a systematic manner.
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Photography
Church of Saint Pierre Firminy, France. (Entrance)
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Chiesa del Gesù Redentore Torino, Italy. (Interior)
Goetheanum Dornach, Switzerland. (Window)
Sketches
Anatomy of a saxophone - zoom in.
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Model making
Material(s) : - Woodsticks
Material(s) : - Threads - Foam - Plaster - Needles
Material(s) : - Cardboards - Trace paper - Spray paint 68
Hands-on fieldworks
Volunteer camp On behalf of faculty of architecture CU. For an elementary school in Mae Hong Son, Thailand
International workshop Design & construction in the middle of desert.(Morongo Valley, California, USA)
Design and build exhibition INDA The Shophouse 1527, Bangkok
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SAIFA SATHAPORN Email : saifa47426@gmail.com Tel : (+66) 819105329