Saralee Sittigaroon
EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Selected Works
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JB HOUSE The house that tailor-made for its residents Year : May 2014 Complete : 2017 Site Location : Nakornchaisri, Nakornpathom, Thailand Site Area : 165 square meters Building area : 127 square meters Contribution : professional work in collaboration with IDIN architect Saralee Sittigaroon - Initial conceptual design Jeravej Hongsakul - Supervisor idin@idinarchitects.com Supachai Phiromrach - Project architect Sakorn Thongdoang - Project architect Ketsiree Wongwan - Architectural photographer The tiny house was built for a couple with different interests and hobbies, The wife who works in publishing industry loves arts and wanted a large working table for reading, writing and drawing. The husband who is fond of baking and taking photographs, is always spend his free time in the kitchen. They required the house which provides the feeling of togetherness. Furthermore, every square centimeter had to design thoroughly due to the limit of budget and land. Because of the limitation of site, two main areas for activity are divided into two floors. The wife’s reading room is on the upper floor while the first floor kitchen is belongs to the husband. The design put the two main functions at the same vertical position and create a glass-top desk which create a visual connection to the kitchen below and allowed them to see each other while enjoying their own favorite activities. Second floor is divided by sliding wall that could provide both one large space or three private rooms. Each room are also separated by using floor step that can be used as desk, chair and shelf. The gaps between each steps connect the worlds of husband and wife together. The couple can still acknowledge each other’s presence almost all the time, while a visitors who access from the front of the house or stay in the living space are unable to see through the more private area on the upper floor. The house consists of two bedrooms, the main bedroom and guest bedroom that can become a kid’s room in future, a working room, a kitchen and living area, a bathroom on the upper floor and a toilet on the lower floor. All upper areas are covered with double wood screens which could be opened for privacy and heat protection. The design provided a gap between the openings ensures enough space in case of maintenance. Most walls on the upper floor are designed to be built-in closets and bookshelves, catering to the wife’s love of books, all over the westside wall to maximize the storage space and reduce heat transmits from outside into the house.
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Rajini Foundation School Semantic ethnography based design for a Thai traditional girl boarding school Location : Klong kuen, Chachoengsao, Thailand Client : Rajini Foundation Building Area : 16,000 square meters Year : 2016-2018 Complete : 2019 Budget : 37.5 Million Baht Contribution :
Research part - private individual study in an attempt to understand the student behavior, identity and collective memory of the Rajini School users, as an input into the design team collaboration.
design part - professional work in collaboration with Architects 49 limited Somkiat Lo-chindapong, Supervisor Tatiya Chuenpreecha, Project Architect Saralee Sittigaroon, Project Architect Photographer :
Nattakit Jeerapatmaitree
Rajini School or the Queen School was founded on April 1, 1904 by Queen Prasripatcharindara, consort of King Rama V. It was first located in the Pak Klong Talad area. Since then the school’s administration and curriculum have been managed by several members of the royal family, as well as the wives of Thai elite. In present, Rajini School has been turned into a private school, , known as the school of well-mannered ladies, has a long reputation of its excellent administration and standards, with curriculum focusing on arts and handicrafts, morality, and self-disciplines. In 2017, The Rajini Foundation decided to construct the third branch of the school on the Bangprakong Riverside in Chachoengsao province. The new school will employ English language program while maintaining the reputation of a boarding decorum and tradition of Thai ladies school. The research, therefore, covers not only the education but also the everyday living.
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Research Since the client and firm did not require architect team to conduct any social research, there was no budget and time resources. Beside doing a updated education paradigm literature review to rethink the characteristic of learning space; I initiated my own user research using a video recorded in the special event of Rajini school’s 111th anniversary which interview the school alumni about their time and impressive moments in the school. The interviewer allow the informants to talk freely with their peers and let things flow from their memory. By listening carefully, I grouped the keywords and terms they used in common and formed a taxonomy diagram of the school’s characters, the needs, and potential activities, based on the account of 142 informants, ranging from the batch of 1942(RJ38) to 2011(RJ107). The interview also contained some clues about the lifestyle issues that used to happen due to the old school’s design. Nevertheless, as the information was from a varied point in time, between 1942 and 2011, some regulations, designs, and customs had already been changed. To confirm, I crosschecked the information and spatial needs with the teacher team of the new school before implement. Even this research was conducted unofficially, it triggered series of discussion on users needs which had not mentioned in client’s first design brief. All aspects derived from the research was applied to design alternatives and most of them were used in final design. The next pages will illustrate some of features which impacted by research.
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Thai traditional manners training were the most frequent keyword among the alumni. while the manner toward the older people is the most poppular example. In tradition of Thai manner, young individuals should walk on knees when approach teacher. As well as the many activities that usually take place with floor sitting posture such as prostrate lesson, Thai music ensemble, garland making and so on, thus we selected the Vinyl floor tile which has a soft touch for any floor activities.
Many informants also mentioned the routine of using shared bathroom while they were in boarding school. Every morning, girls have to rush and line up for bathrooms where the teachers will time and control the water. To facilitate this process, our team calculated the amount of required bathroom as well as providing extra space for circulation flow near the bath area.
Rajini school original branch have a rule of “Do not visit windows area� which prohibit girls to lingering around the window and be seen by outside people. we provide the lace curtain like facade that both improve privacy as well as filter sun light, strong river wind and rain by using flower shape ventilation block as the outer skin of main buildings.
Since the school have many outdoo to games among peers, some infor associated with sun and chlorine swim condition is prone to flood. The scho design a covered walkway linking all buildings were separated into two mas and protect the activities space and l classroom by open inside windows skylight with carefully choose to reduc from strong tropical sunlight yet prov Students could move their activities to evening.
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Strong river wind can be both pro and cons. In rainy season, rain usually come in horizontal direction which is difficult to prevent it to hit the windows by just a canopy. The design creates the dolly facet of ventilation block to be both for sun shading, reduce wind power. The The
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The informants mentioned the event whereby the girls play together by climbing wall or terrace for fun as well as the case of full height glass window that allowed low angle perspective when viewing from street, which is not appropriate for girls who wear uniform with skirt. Rechecking the information with teacher’s team led to the design of the high, solid railing in the new buildings. 11
Additionally, despite being a school highly focus on manner, many informants recalled chatting with friends in the canteen after keeping silent during longhour lessons so the canteen became a noisy space with chats, gossips, and giggles. So, the new design have an acoustic board installed on the ceiling to improve the room acoustic.
Art for the blind Participatory design for an art installation Award : First runner-up Host : Thailand Department of Tourism Competition name : Art for Blinds Year : December 2017 Location : Bangkok, Thailand Contribution : Group Project, Competition Members : Ms. Saralee Sittigaroon (Architect) Ms. Sarocha Kiitisiriphand (Psychologist) Ms. Parppim Pimmarat (Social Innovator) The Nose Thailand (scent designer)
The annual competition aims to create art pieces that introduce the Thailand tourism attraction to visually impaired people. The event initiate by Thailand Ministry of tourism in collaboration with Thai universities, intended to promote greater equality in the country and allowing visually impaired local and international visitors to experience its landmarks through feeling. A month project intended to introduce audience to the Mae La Noi village, King Rama IV development project at Mae Hong Son province. The villager change the way of the shifting cultivation and illegal opium farm to economic crops agriculture. By The introduction of cut terrain into step agriculture terrace and participatory working process, it results in both the environment and people’s life quality uplift. The sustainable lifestyle of indigenous people and the beautiful landscape has become a famous tourist attraction. Our group began with the question “What is disability?� For us, everyone has the handicap of oneself. For one who could not drive might unable to access some place without any assist. In term of one who are illiterate, literature mean nothing for them just like the blinds. The physical handicap does not mean they are less than others. The audience could be anyone from normal ability of vision, low vision, to vision impairment. The monochrome sculpture is use to eliminate the impact of human eye and invite everyone to explore the art piece in the same manner by touching and smelling. Beside the general material that we used to create a variety of textures. The inscribe drawing was another medium to convey message. Working collaborate with the total blindness (Ms. Sarocha Kiitisiriphand), we intended to use her drawing as part of the art piece. The team experiment on the seven drawing tools, three types of metal sheet, and five writing pads, which are normally found in markets to find the best material and inscription method. Sarocha, our member with visually impaired, decided to use steel head ball pen on 0.03 millimeters copper sheets laid on ethylene vinyl acetate foam or EVA.
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To express the characteristic of rice terrace, the sculpture use contour model as a medium. The mountain lean along the given three side wall, telling story in timeline. Started from when the mountain was very slope which could not hold and absorb rain water, plants were hardly grow. The model was represented by the rough sand texture with serrated edge. The mass gently unwind to the ladder rice field which top of each plain covered with the real grain, softly plant, and the more pleasant of the hand contact like animal feather.
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Collaboration with The Nose Thailand, a professional scent designer group, the project also apply three smell factor to illiustrate the situation from strong bad smell of burnt to greenery then sweet fruitful scent. 7 TYPES OF DRAWING TOOLS
The final part is integrated with the copper plate which give the pleasant feeling of smooth and cool temperature, inscribed with dots lines and images by the team members without using vision. Lastly, we aimed to turn visually challenged audiences who always be receiver to be creator of the work. Letting visitors complete the work by drew the copper sheet and place it on the magnetic wall.
“The blind is not a person who cannot see, they just see things in a different way.” For many blinds, they never believe that they can draw. Not because they could not see the pen and paper but they could not draw a tree without seeing a tree or the “sign” of a tree before. The drawing of tree that we shared its meaning is entirely unlike real tree that can feel with hand. We found many interesting perspectives of the blinds. How they draw to communicate their understanding of things by using line or dot to create their own sense of image. The landscape view with different perspective and sense of direction. This project may not success in which convey the message from a blind to another because the blinds do not have their common picture sign language. Their image of tree are completely different but it archive in the goal to free the blind from the feel of disability on making art and enjoy interacting with the art object.
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The main leading path with Braille code
Visitor can draw their own picture of Mae La Noi
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Rock and sand surface
Plants, Grain, Feathers
Urban Seamless Service design and thinking in public facility Workshop name : Service Design for Public Transportation Workshop Host : Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) and Department of Architecture, Chulalongkorn University Theme : Next Station: Ayutthaya Workshop Date : Third year, 16 March - 15 May 2014 Contribution : Group Project, Academic workshop Advisor : Assistant Professor Rachaporn Choochuey, Ph.D rachaporn.c@chula.ac.th Members : Saralee Sittigaroon Tanapol Kositsurangkakul Kanokkarn Hanmungtham This design workshop on high-speed railway station was organized by the Department of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University and the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) as a forum for exploring issues which intersecting public architecture and service design. The purpose of this seminar was to compile and share ideas among the research institutions in the region on the topic of high-speed railway station infrastructure and to propose guidelines for the design of a high-speed railway station in Ayutthaya province. In addition to design, participants also discussed issues relevant to the success of public infrastructure projects, including sociocultural implications, financing structures, and user-responsive design, among other topics. The site Ayutthaya is an old capital of Thailand and a famous tourist historical city. Located 75 kilometers from Bangkok, The new mode of transportation will turn Ayutthaya to commuter city connect the industrial estate in suburban Ayutthaya to Thailand’s capital. The proposal “urban seamless� aiming to create harmonious transition space between the city and the station. Railway did cut the urban fabric which result in discontinuity of development. The new station aim to act as the connector with the blur boundary line to the community. This new transition space will provide the missing support function like barbershop, convenient store or thai massage shop which aim to both encourage local economic and reduce the perception of giant alien building from the street. The design allowed the station to grow along with the city development and support the local economy.
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(Above) Scale perception Analysis Visual lines are drawnto determine the height of the new station. (Below) The limited of buildings height according to the Ministerial Regulation 53, 1999, the restriction result in the disharmony scale of urban fabric and the new station 22
The design focused on the problem of alienation of architecture and city. Due to the narrow of existing local train station which belongs to the State Railway of Thailand, the new high speed train track and platform has to be risen in vertical above the old one. The building with an enormous scale will be placed on the site where is surrounded by small scale residences and commercial rowhouses.
As far as building height is concerned, The transition element which will, in the beginning, blend with a height of the urbanscape around the station and able to added later. While the surrounding condition will change from the TOD (transit-oriented development), the station will together grow with the city. By providing a space for extending the building higher when the around buildings rise taller. This addition will serve as a supporting function that the train station will demand like hotel and conference room, which does not require in the first phase. Another aspect is that usage of the area will be changed. According to the team observation, the existing station is currently allow the connection between the two sides of the train’s track by foot walk. The new station tries to preserve this usage in much safer way by providing an easily reachable route that crossing the station in the same position along with a service of elevator and escalator to available for every type of users. To design and concern urbanization together with the development of Ayutthaya Station in long term. The development plan was divided into three phases from year 0-7, year 7-14, year 14-20. Utilizing the area in front of, behind and the existing station for linking the station to the city, the station was designed to be expanded in both vertical and horizontal direction in order to decrease the scale of station to the city systematically. Also, this will help to merge the area, which has been separated by existing tracks, together again.
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On-site Observation
Exhausted passenger
Existing local train station
Existing railroad tracks
The pop up express barber stand
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The otherside of Insufficient waiting area railroad was cut of from major city area
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The existing route people using crossing railroad tracks
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BRIDGE + SKYWALK + PAVILLION
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The Short Cut Designer in users’ shoes Competition name Award Host Theme Year Contribution Location
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Young Designer Award 2014 Silver Award Nippon Paint Thailand Re-think Re-create October, 2014 Individual project, competition Bangkok, Thailand
Giving any 10 acres of land to rethink – recreate the ideal future living community, the competition aim to push the boundaries of design in creating the community of designer dreams, design a community layout that designer require to live in and stating the concept of the community. How the design incorporates innovative yet sustainable approach that not only enhances the outlook of the community, but giving them a better quality of life for the future. Research for site selection Mo-Chit is Bangkok’s largest bus terminal which connect transportation between Bangkok and the north and north-east part of Thailand. Large amount of population use the station 24 hours, everyday. However, The way to enter the city center is considerably difficult. The station is like isolated island, surrounded with complex street, railroad and tollway system that cut of urban fabric. The station become an island that unconnected with city center. Even Mo-Chit bus terminal and Sky train-subway interchange station just in the same area. The walking route to the nearest metro station is very far and too complicated for non-local people. The footpath is discontinuous and harm to walk with large luggage. Moreover, there are three public parks in between. These parks are run by different organizations and separated from each other by fences and moats. People can use the park to be a circulation in operating hours but when the doors closed in the evening. The public spaces become a large obstruction.
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From the field observation, there are four general ways to reach sky train(BTS) and subway (MRT) from Mo-Chit intercity bus station.
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Taxi is the most comfortable but expensive one. Like public bus, the route distance and time consumption are vary, depend on traffic condition. Prices are very high compared to the minimum wage as 330 THB per day.
Motorbike is the quickest way to travel. The price depends on bargaining and the level of demand at that time. Motorbike is not the convenient mode of transportation for foreign passengers and passenger with baggage.
Walking is the free but most dangerous way of travel. From the field experiment, I have to cross complex and dangerous highway system of Kampangpetch road. There are no signage system and sense of direction in urban design.All year hot weather and poor condition pavement make it unconvenient to travel. Then, passenger could walk through parks. With a few park gate and picturesque tortuous path of landscape design make the way further for travelers with baggages. The Intercity bus schedule can be as late as 23:30, it becomes even more difficult and long distance to walk because the parks close its doors.
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“The Shortcut� is a skywalk that connects modes of transportation, transmit people from bus terminal direct to Subway(MRT) and Sky train(BTS) interchanged at Chatuchak station. Cutting across three public parks, the passengers could enjoy walking with the scenery from the tree tops.
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A concern that effect the physical design of the public space in Bangkok is that the new structure should be visually open as they will not turn out to be a meeting point for unlawful purpose, while it is required to protect people from sunlight and rain. The support structure of the bride should minimize the footprint to avoid disturbing the existing layout of parks or disconnect the garden circulation. The design proposes the support to be pavilions integrated as components of parks. Staircases allow people to sit down and use as meeting points. These structures could be close dthe access after the operate hours of each park, but still able to connect between two modes of transportation. The new design aim not only to serve the passengers of the bus station, but also the general public with safer, healthier and more convenient way to access parks.
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Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music Experience design for various user groups in public space Academic Year : Fifth year, 2014 Supervisor : M.L. Piyalada Thaveeprungsriporn, Ph.D. piyalada.d@chula.ac.th Site area : 30,672 square meters Building area : 16,294 square meters Site Location : Rama III Road, Bangkok, Thailand Contribution : Individual, Academic thesis “The Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music or PGVIM” is a unique conservatory of music with a contemporary approach to classical music, currently located near Rama VIII bridge in Bangkok. Due to the city planning law preventing further construction of any educational or auditorium facilities, The institute is in demand for a larger space. This thesis is a studies for campus relocation in order to achieve the standard of international level. According to the research and interviews with teacher, professional musicians, music students and acoustic specialist, the studies found that there are several of “Boundary” between integration of human and classical music to tackle, in order to response to three missions of the Institute. 1. To develop young talents student’s skill of music while developing their understanding of music as a tool for an advancement of man and harmony of society, Environmental sound quality becomes the main issue. As noise is strong boundary between musician and music especially acoustic, delicate, detailed music like classical music. The project have to concern about acoustic in many dimensions such as site planning, form making, structure, technical detail, materials. 2. To be the dissemination center of classical music and other related field for Thai society and change the high extravagant exclusive image of classical music, the project is designed as part of the city’s public space, connect with the public Park that located next to site. Furthermore, Site planning is deeply concerned about the pedestrian’s convenience, entering experience and visibility to every function. The free concert court, which is located in the heart of site, is the best blur boundary space between people, musicians and music especially to those who would not normally hear classical music. It’s an invitation for musicians to connect with their audience and get more people turned into classical music. 3. Be the embodiment for exchanging musical knowledge between people, community, and other institutes. The circulation of professionals, musicians, audience and visitor is designed to cross in order to visually connect, meet and share their love of music together. For example, visitors who intend to visit the riverside restaurant or the promenade have to pass the school which they could hear the ensemble sound, or they have to pass the auditorium area which they could see the on going and up coming concert programs. Along the way, there are also various type of music activities space that they might participate. The design aim to encourage people from visitors to become audiences and, at the end, musicians who are deeply understand classical music. 33
SITE CONFIGURATION
The new campus is located on Rama III road, next to Chaophraya River with Rama IX Bridge on the West. The area under the bridge is currently a large vacant green space, belong to Expressway Authority of Thailand. It is considered a permanent view since the regulation prohibit buildings under the bridge area. The green space is also connected to the Public Park which is a poppular leisure space of people in the neighbourhood. The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has a plan to develop the vacant green space to an extension of this existing public park. On the East,There is a private land which possible to be developed into a large commercial development. This context analysis plays an important role in positioning the music hall/auditorium. PUBLIC pARK
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Music students spend most of their time at the practice building, including break time, evening, as well as during the weekend. Therefore, the practice rooms are detached as another building for security reason. Each practice room is disconnected from one another to prevent unwanted sound through the wall. The empty space resulted from separating the practice rooms becomes gathering and relaxation chambers where students can relax after a long day of practice. Metal sheet with sound insulation Truss dept 1.50 m. PTFE glass mesh fabric Steel Structure Steel pipe Dimeter 0.25 m. Curtain wall panel 1.90x3.60 Low emissivity glass Terrace with steel beam and rod Double layer of precast concrete Steel column 0.60x0.60 @5.70 m. Metal desk with plate girder 1.50 m. Composit column 1.00x1.00 m.
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Music Experience In the era which plenty of high-quality music resources are available online, the concert venues have to compete with digital by promote the intimate physical relationship between audiences and performers to enhance the experience. The seating arrangement is organized in vineyard style, which is different from the traditional shoebox auditorium. The stage is surrounded by seats to minimize distance, rising up in a series of rows in manner of the sloping terrace of vineyard. This style has no proscenium that may be able to cause “Boundary” between musician and audience. Let the audience see every move of musician. The sound from the origin become closer. Moreover, this intimacy benefits institute’s students to observe very closely from the orchestra inside point of view. Acoustic The strategy for achieving good acoustic quality is to elevate the seating on the side up in order to resonate the sound to the center of the hall. The application of two way curve horizontal and vertical ceilings plays an important role in sound reflection, in which the direct sound and reflect sound should not exceed 30 meters in order to avoid hearing echoes. The size of halls are derived from the formula: the volume of the hall equals 10 cubic meters per seat to achieve reverberation time value of 2 seconds. Auditorium The 250-seater music hall, used for mini concerts and seminars opens up to the river view through vacumm insulated glazing wall as an insulation from unwanted noise. The design distinguish itself from other music halls, making it eye-catching for visitors. The main 1,100-seater music hall and the 250 seat hall are located on the same floor in order to maximize the efficiency of backstage facilities. The halls are surrounded with other rooms to prevent unwanted noise from outside. All walls and doors are double-layered for the same reason. ‘Box in box’ system is used at the structure. The cantilevered area is supported by a massive truss together with the main columns. The facade is made of double-skin PTFE mesh fabric, which is translucent enough to see the view and filter sunlight. This material has the potential to be a screen of projection mapping for outdoor stages as well. 42
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