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HYPHEN: UR B A NI SM O N T H E F LO O D P L A I N Master of Architecture Thesis Thesis Advisor: Chris Reed Fall 2018 | Har vard Graduate School of Design A flat low-lying coastal city in the Chao Phraya river delta, with an average of 1.5 meter above sea level, Bangkok is under immense pressure. The sea is rising. The ground is sinking. The city flooded. Yet the metropolis is continuously growing without any signs of stopping. Its infrastructure cannot keep up with the rapid urbanization. Rigid and monotonous, these inadequate infrastructures negate the dynamic, intricate, and emergent qualities of the city and the fluid and adaptable nature of the Thais. Bangkok is a hyper-agglomeration of extremes and hybrids, a series of superimposed fragments. A skyscraper, a rice field; a Buddhist temple, a luxurious shopping mall; a dense industrial highway, a marsh. Faced with the city’s inevitable expansion, the future of its periphery is called into question.
Neither urban nor rural, the thesis proposes a new urban condition: the “hyphening” of the metropolis and productive landscapes. It explores the complex conflation of urban-rural, water-land, architecture-landscape, natural-artificial, resilience-recreation, productive-cultural, and economicenvironmental. How can we re-imagine a new way of living on the floodplain? How can we rethink architecture-landscape-infrastructure hybrids? How can we reconsider urbanism projects in light of climate change, social inequities, and ecological degradation? How can we create a new cultural imagination for the Bangkok Metropolis Region?
By re-examining the history, traditions, and mythologies associated with water, the thesis explores possibilities for cultivating a new urban condition on Thailand’s floodplain. Through typological studies, the thesis seek to test projective design strategies that would catalyze transformational processes over time. 1
River Ecologies of Thailand 2 Analog - Digital 3 Resilience - Recreation 4 Technology - Tradition 5 Lifted - Submerged 6 Living - Living 7 Productive - Culture 8 Water - Land
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CANALSTRANSPORTATION + DIKE/ROAD + LIFTED BUILDINGS + CIVIC CORRIDOR + STRIPS STACKED SYSTEMS + COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION CANALSTRANSPORTATION + DIKE/ROAD + LIFTED BUILDINGS + CIVIC CORRIDOR + STRIPS STACKED SYSTEMS + WATER WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION
+ DIKE/ROAD + MID-RISE + CIVIC CORRIDOR + RESERVIOR STACKEDCANALS TRANSPORTATION + LIVING LIVING SPACES + WATER WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION CANALS + DIKE/ROAD + MID-RISE + CIVIC CORRIDOR + RESERVIOR STACKED TRANSPORTATION + SPACES + COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION
CANALS + DIKE/ROAD + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS CANALS + DIKE/ROAD + FLUTED STEPS + RETENTION SURFACES CANALS + DIKE/ROAD + FLUTED STEPS + RETENTION SURFACES
CANALS + DIKE/ROAD + LIFTED BUILDINGS + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS CANALS + HIGH-GROUND BUILDINGS + PARK + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS CANALS + HIGH-GROUND BUILDINGS + PARK + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS
CANALS ++ DIKE/ROAD + FLUTED STEPS ++RETENTION SURFACES CANALS + DIKE/ROAD LIFTED BUILDINGS CIVIC CORRIDOR + STRIPS PEAKS VALLEYS,+WATER WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION ROOF CANALS ++ DIKE/ROAD +SYSTEMS FLUTED STEPS + RETENTION SURFACES STACKED TRANSPORTATION + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION PEAKS VALLEYS, COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION ROOF STACKED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION
CANALS + +HIGH-GROUND BUILDINGS + PARK + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS CANALS DIKE/ROAD + MID-RISE + CIVIC CORRIDOR + RESERVIOR COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK CANALS + HIGH-GROUND BUILDINGS + +PARK + PRODUCTIVE STACKED TRANSPORTATION + LIVING SPACES WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + WATER WATER MANAGEMENT +STRIPS LIVE/WORK STACKED TRANSPORTATION + LIVING SPACES + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION
STACKED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION SPINE + TRANSPORTATION + MANAGEMENT + STACKED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION SPINE + COURTYARD: COURTYARD: TRANSPORTATION + WATER WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK LIVE/WORK + + CIVIC CIVIC
STACKED TRANSPORTATION + LIVING SPACES++CIVIC WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION FLOATING LIVE/WORK SPACES STACKED TRANSPORTATION + LIVING SPACES++CIVIC WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION FLOATING LIVE/WORK SPACES
CANALS + DIKE/ROAD + FLUTED STEPS + RETENTION SURFACES PEAKS + VALLEYS, WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION ROOF PEAKS + VALLEYS, WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION ROOF
CANALS + HIGH-GROUND BUILDINGS + PARK + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK
AMPLIFIED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION +COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION STACKED HOUSING + COMMUNITY COMMUNITY + PEAKS + VALLEYS, WATER ROOF HOUSING + STACKED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION AMPLIFIED SPINE: STACKED + PEAKS TRANSPORTATION + VALLEYS, WATER++COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION ROOF HOUSING SPINE + COURTYARD: TRANSPORTATION + WATERHOUSING MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK + CIVIC CIVIC SPACES SPACES PRODUCTIVE STRIPS SPINE + COURTYARD: TRANSPORTATION + WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK + CIVIC CIVIC + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS
COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK STACKED TRANSPORTATION + LIVING SPACES + WATER COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION CUT&FILL OPERATION: ISLANDS OF DIFFERENCE COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + WATER + LIVE/WORK FLOATING LIVE/WORK + CIVIC SPACES CUT&FILL OPERATION: ISLANDS OFMANAGEMENT DIFFERENCE FLOATING LIVE/WORK + CIVIC SPACES
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LIVE/WORK + CIVIC SPACES NETWORK OF OF STACKED STACKED FLOATING TRANSPORTATION + HOUSING HOUSING + CIVIC CIVIC + + WATER WATER DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION FLOATING LIVE/WORK + CIVIC SPACES NETWORK TRANSPORTATION + +
AMPLIFIED SPINE: STACKED HOUSING + COMMUNITY PEAKS TRANSPORTATION + VALLEYS, WATER+COLLECTION/DISTRIBUTION ROOF HOUSING + AMPLIFIED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION HOUSING + COMMUNITY HOUSING + CIVIC SPACES++STACKED PRODUCTIVE STRIPS CIVIC SPACES + PRODUCTIVE STRIPS
COMPACTED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK CUT&FILL OPERATION: ISLANDS OF DIFFERENCE CUT&FILL OPERATION: ISLANDS OF DIFFERENCE
AMPLIFIED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION + STACKED HOUSING + COMMUNITY HOUSING + AMPLIFIED SPINE: TRANSPORTATION +NET STACKED HOUSING + COMMUNITY HOUSING + SPINE + COURTYARD: TRANSPORTATION + WATER MANAGEMENT + LIVE/WORK + CIVIC + CIVIC STILTS SPACES PRODUCTIVE STRIPS PRODUCTIVE + CIVIC +STRUCTURE RECREATION STRIPS ++ STRUCTURE CIVIC STILTS SPACES +NET PRODUCTIVE STRIPS PRODUCTIVE + CIVIC + RECREATION STRIPS
CUT&FILL OPERATION: ISLANDS OF DIFFERENCE FLOATING LIVE/WORK + CIVIC SPACES ADAPTIVE FIELD CUT&FILL OPERATION: ISLANDS NETWORK OF STACKED TRANSPORTATION + HOUSING + CIVIC + WATER DISTRIBUTION ADAPTIVE FIELD OF DIFFERENCE NETWORK OF STACKED TRANSPORTATION + HOUSING + CIVIC + WATER DISTRIBUTION
+ CIVIC + RECREATION PRODUCTIVE + + CIVIC CIVICPRODUCTIVE + RECREATION RECREATION + HOUSING HOUSING + WATER WATERSTRIPS MANAGEMENT NETWORK NETWORK PRODUCTIVE + CIVIC + RECREATION STRIPS PRODUCTIVE + + + MANAGEMENT
NETWORK OF STACKED TRANSPORTATION HOUSING + CIVIC + WATER DISTRIBUTION TENTS + ++ POOLS NETWORK OF STACKED TRANSPORTATION +POOLS HOUSING + CIVIC + WATER DISTRIBUTION TENTS
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ADAPTIVE FIELD NETWORK OF STACKED TRANSPORTATION + HOUSING + CIVIC + WATER DISTRIBUTION FLOATING + + ADAPTIVE FIELD TENTS + POOLS FLOATING ISLANDS ISLANDS + HOUSES HOUSES + POOLS POOLS + + FARMS FARMS TENTS + POOLS
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TENTS + POOLSSTRUCTURES NETWORK PATHS PATHS + TENSILE TENSILE TENTS + POOLSSTRUCTURES NETWORK +
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Map of Thailand: Land-based Infrastructure Map of Thailand: Water-based Civilization 3 Map of Thailand: Infrastructures 4 Map of Bangkok: Industrial-Urban 5 Map of Bangkok: Hydrology-Infrastructure 6 Map of Bangkok: Urban Cores-Periphery 7 Strips-Canals 8 Productive Orchards/Shrimp Farms-Suburban Development 9 Productive Aquaculture-Industrial Development 10 Typological Studies of Architecture-Landscape-Infrastructure Hybrids 1
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: hybrid : state of in-between, state of fluctuation : mergining, hybridization STILTS + NET STRUCTURE FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING
ADAPTIVE FIELD FLOATING ISLANDS + HOUSES + POOLS + FARMS FLOATING ISLANDS + HOUSES + POOLS + FARMS
ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING PRODUCTIVE + CIVIC +FLOATING RECREATION + HOUSING + WATER MANAGEMENT NETWORK FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING + POOLS FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING + POOLS
FLOATING ISLANDS + HOUSES + POOLS + FARMS TENTS + POOLS FLOATING ISLANDS + POOLS + FARMS NETWORK PATHS+ +HOUSES TENSILE STRUCTURES NETWORK PATHS + TENSILE STRUCTURES
FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING + POOLS FLOATING ISLANDS + ISLAND-MAKING + POOLS
NETWORK PATHS + TENSILE STRUCTURES NETWORK PATHS + TENSILE STRUCTURES
Water level - monsoon season
Water level - 100 years
S TR I P S
Water level - monsoon season
Water level - 100 years
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Water level - 100 years
PO O LS
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IN AND OU T A ND R OUN DA BO U T Professor: Jeanne Gang with Claire Cahan Spring 2018 | Har vard Graduate School of Design How can we create more sustainable and resilient island ecologies in light of climate change, ecological degradation, resource depletion, water scarcity, food security, and waste and resource management? How can we reimagine the linear system of waste management through architecture and landscape systems to create sustainable economies, productive ecologies, and social engagement? At the center of Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, the Susannaberg Transfer Station is now overwhelmed with waste and debris, an aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. The project seeks to transform the site into a sustainable living center: a laboratory for innovating new ways of thinking about waste
and resources and a public space for collaboration and engagement. Through a series of simple, precise operations, the project seeks to initiate a process of change. The project introduces a series of light, movable, and performative elements that integrates the site and the community with cycles of water and waste and the production, consumption, and transformation of resources. These “acupuncture� elements are precisely and strategically placed to collect, store, renew, and share resources; cultivate food; build a library of materials, tools, knowledge, and skills; and house spaces for living, working, and recreation. After being fabricated and tested on site, these prototypes could be transported to other places on Saint John and eventually exported other islands and around the world.
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Elevation of Sustainable Living Center Community Center / Artist Residence 3 Makerspace / Material Library 4 Plan of Sustainable Living Center
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solar roof, timber frame, concrete footing
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gallery, display shelf
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collection, storage
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Water Collection and Public Spaces Negotiating Landform
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Highway with Water Collection
Edited by Chris Reed
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Softbottoms
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Rain Water Collection
Street Furniture Terraces Hyperloop Bike Lanes
Los Angeles: cultures, images, and textures 2 Map of the Four Ecologies 2.0 Distributary section of elements(Humboldt style) 4 Ecology IV: Autotopia 2.0 is Metrotopia, Assemblies 5 Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies/ Los Angeles: The Four Ecologies 2.0 6 The Four Ecologies 2.0 models distributed over Los Angeles 7 Metrotopia models 8 The Four Ecologies 2.0 models distributed over Los Angeles 9 Reyner Banham. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. 1971. 1
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Collaborator: Sonny Xu Advisor: Chris Reed Fall 2017 | Har vard Graduate School of Design The Four Ecologies 2.0 re-thinks the twentieth-century metropolis as embodied by Los Angeles. With Reyner Banham’s book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies as the starting point of exploration, the project re-imagines Banham’s ecologies of LA in the twenty-first century. The Four Ecologies 2.0 proposes a new language of movement for Los Angeles not only serves mobility, but simultaneously integrates social, cultural, economical and ecological functions to create hybrid infrastructural systems for the future. With the approval of Measure M in November 2016 (Metro’s $120 billion infrastructural plan), the city set its vision to enhance mobility and accessibility, improve bus, rail, and highway systems
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and develop bike and pedestrian connections. It also aims to embrace technology and innovation, reduce pollution and generate local economic benefits. At the same time LAX, is anticipating a $5 billion infrastructural plan to improve its connectivity to the terminals and rail lines. The Four Ecologies 2.0 sees these plans as fantastic opportunities to transform the aging and underutilized single-function transportation infrastructure into hybrid, performative, and productive systems. The project embraces the unique culture and nature of Los Angeles and its infrastructures and re-tools them to perform socially, culturally, and environmentally.
The project re-imagines Reyner Banham’s Four Ecologies as: Ecology IV: Autotopia 2.0 is Metrotopia Instead of personal vehicles, the projects proposes Metrotopia or mass transit as the main form of mobility. The project replaces the single-function freeway structure with a catalog of multifunctional infrastructure. Metrotopia reexamines the different infrastructural types (freeways, rail, high-speed rail, hyperloop, plumbing, electrical and water collection, filtration and distribution) and combines them into new hybridized conditions that serves an array of transportational, social, cultural and ecological functions.
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Ecology I: Surfurbia 2.0 is Delirious LAX, Sectional perspective 11 Experiential perspectives 12 Aerial perspective 13 Design strategy diagram 10
Ecology I: Surfurbia 2.0 is Delirious LAX
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Delirious LAX introduces LA’s beach and surf culture to the LAX, one of the busiest airports in the world. An internal loop connects airport users from the terminals to the beach, as well as to the conference center and tax-free shopping. Airport users need not leave the airport to attend conferences or take a dip at the beach. The outside public loop connects the nearby beaches through an elevated programmed boardwalk that brings the pedestrians out to the ocean. Other ecological functions include desalination devices, floating wetlands, and aquatic habitats. 12
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Ecology II: Foothills 2.0 is Everyday Fantastic, Sectional perspective 15 Experiential perspectives 16 View of the Foothills from a cable car 17 Design strategy diagram 14
Ecology II: Foothills 2.0 is Every day Fantastic
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“The foothill ecology is really all about: narrow, tortuous residential roads serving precipitous house-plots that often back up directly on unimproved wilderness.”
Everyday Fantastic provides a light cable car system that cuts across the terrain and connects residents to and from nearby metro stations. The project is both functional and recreational, connecting people from home to work, simultaneously taking the users on a fantastic fly through of LA’s reservoirs and parks. At Silver Lake Reservoir, the project opens the gated reservoir to the public and provides a series of programs including water retention, co-working spaces, libraries, playgrounds and showers.
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APARTMENT COMMERCIAL
CONDOMINIUM COMMERCIAL WATER COLLECTION + FILTRATION + DISTRIBUTION
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HYPERLOOP
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CONDOMINIUM COMMERCIAL
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Ecology III: The Plains of Id 2.0 is The Fields of Intensities, Sectional perspective 19 Experiential perspectives 20 Aerial perspective 21 Design strategy diagram 18
Ecology III: The Plains of Id 2.0 is The Fields of Intensities
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The Plains of Id is the gridded flatlands and the endless streets of downtown LA that have “destroyed community spirit that may once have existed.”
The Fields of Intensities reclaims the LA river as public spaces and amenities by providing public access and other ecological and social functions. By stacking vertically the different forms of existing and proposed mass transits such as the Hyperloop, the high speed rail and metro, the project frees up a lot of the shoulder spaces along the river. The project transforms underutilized railways, railyards, warehouses and vacant lands into sports fields, startup studios, market spaces, galleries, test kitchen and etc.
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Foothills Site: Landform Strategies
Expressway Site: Hyperloop + Water Transportation + Ecological Functions
Elevated Highway Site: Ecological Functions + Water Collection + Showers
Multifunctional / Multi-level Station
Downtown Site: Canal + Hyperloop + Water Collection Roof Pods
LA River Site: Stepped Terraces with Wetlands + Multilevel Platforms
LA River Site: Soft Bottoms + Pipes + Ducts + Event Spaces + Sports
LA River Site: Hyperloop + High Speed Rail + Water Collection and Transportation Systems
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Former Railyard Site: Infrastructural Building + Water Collection Event Spaces + Sports
Railyard /LA River Site: Hyperloop + Urban Connector + Water Collection Canopies / Shade
Railyard / LA River Site: Hyperloop + Landform Building + Water Collection Canopies /Shade + Underground High Speed Rail + Water
Circle Packing Tubes of different functions
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LA River Site: Hyperloop + High Speed Rail + Water Collection + Transportation Systems
Elevated Expressway: Hyperloop + Ecological Functions + Street Canopy + Tunnels
LAX: Beach Access + Conference Center for Airport Users Elevated Boardwalk for Public Users
Multifunctional / Multi-level Station
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Ecology IV: Autotopia 2.0 is Metrotopia , Catalog of sectional models 23 Ecology I: Surfurbia 2.0 is Delirious LAX, physical model 24 Ecology II: Foothills 2.0 is Everyday Fantastic, physical model 25 Ecology III: The Plains of Id 2.0 is The Fields of Intensities
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artist studios
garden gallery
hotel rooms
sky lobby
hotel & fitness lobby
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IN -BETWE E N G R O UND S Professor: Eric Höweler Fall 2016 | Har vard Graduate School of Design The project imagines architecture as a city, an architecture of “transitions” and “in-betweenness.” It is not a single absolute autonomous object but is connected to multiple heterogeneous systems, open to change and transformation. The tower extracts, deconstructs, and reconstructs the “ground,” vertically along the three cores. The displaced volumes becomes the new datums for the city on which different types of users and activities come together. The public programs are distributed within these solid masses. From these new datums, hotel rooms and artist studios are attached. The tower reconstructs the city vertically; where the cores work as the main streets, the public “grounds” as the city nodes, and hotel and studios as the local neighborhoods.
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The way the tower is constructed suggests a kind of unfinished project, where the ground could be reimagined and rooms could begin to fill in the spaces below. The infrastructural ground is first constructed and distributed vertically; rooms and more transient spaces are then added below. The spaces in between the hanging hotel rooms and the new datums offer a new type of outdoor space for Doha. One that is cooling and self-shading. One that introduces a new way of dwelling and inhabiting space: a slow-paced lifestyle of luxury and relaxation rather than one of speed and efficiency. The heterogenous mix of multiple programs in the public “grounds” encourages exchange between different users and activities, leading to new ways of living.
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1 Section through one of the three verticle cores Exploded axonometric of public “grounds” and hanging hotel rooms 3 Elevation of tower 4 Ground Floor Plan 5 Plan of hotel lobby & fitness; roof-top pool & restaurant 6 Plan of hotel rooms, hanging above the sky lobby 7 Family portrait of physical models: circulation, program, structure, sectional detail, and final model 8 View looking above at the hanging rooms 9 View from the sky lobby of pool and hotel rooms 10 View of tower across the public plaza on the street-level
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IMMERS IV E B OD I E S Professor: Fredrik Hellberg Spring 2013 | Chulalongkorn University International Program in Design and Architecture The project pursues an experience-driven architecture of new urban sacred spaces. It explores the possibilities of architecture as performance by pushing the boundaries for human-architecture interaction. It seeks to bring architecture to life to a level where it can expand communication and exchange between architecture and its inhabitants to unknown levels. Through exploration of the possibilities of a transformable architecture and analysis of existing kinetic and movable structures, an active architecture that performs and acts according to its own “experience� and responds to the human activity inside is created as a form of communication bond between the architecture and its occupants.
Immersive Bodies emphasizes the idea of participation and activation, symmetry and alignment, and sacred and spiritual experience through the intricate and reciprocal relationship between human and architecture. The activation of the performance occurs when people participate and engage with the architecture as it responds back in symbiosis. Multiple agents, from various people and social groups in the site to the architectural space itself, come together correspondingly to produce a truly immersive experience.
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The architecture transform as performs through the intricate and reciprocal relationship of the public and the built environment. 2 New urban sacred spaces, a blurring of religious ceremonies with daily life 3 Study of performative choreography of the Royal Opera House 4 Study of Protestantism: history, geography, demographic, beliefs, ceremonies, artifacts, and architecture 5 Plan of hotel lobby & fitness; roof-top pool & restaurant
SATHA NA K A R N Status: in progress Kanjanaburi, Thailand Hypothesis Design Agency
Roof form
Arrangement of bamboo beams (east)
Arrangement of bamboo beams (west)
Bamboo Structure
Roof Canvas
Concrete foundation integrates with the topography
Designed the workshop pavilion. The project provides a workshop for students from various universities in Thailand. It encourages the experimentation and integration of design and fabrication.
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R EPRE SE NTATION AND R EI NTE RP RETATION OF BOUNDA RIES
T H A I PA RK/ M A R K E T
Advisors: Yarinda Bunnag, Will Patera & Carson Chang
Advisors: Yarinda Bunnag, Will Patera & Carson Chang
Initially left as an overgrown island of paved area in a vegetated field, the project reconfigured the circulation of the existing site and resuscitated a previously abandoned, bounded island, converting it into a shortcut for park users to cross from one side of the park to the other. The students worked solely with found elements on site. Through mowing the grasses and rearrangements of stones, boundaries were erased and new spaces were created.
The project attempted to emphasize on the split dynamic of the park users as well as to ameliorate the notion of conflicts. The group developed a design that considered the existing condition on one side of the park: a Thai “market,” and to intensify its essence to make the conflict between the two sides — “market” and “park” — more obvious.
C ol l a borat o r : Nat re eya Kra ichitti, Pimcha no k Wa ngve e ra m it De s i gn Bu ild 2 0 1 1 , Ch u lalo ng k o rn Un i versi t y
Initial conditions in the park
Result of intensifying the market
Co l l a b o ra t o r : Pa s i t Ro j ra d t a na s i ri , Pre e T h i ra k u l De s ig n Bu ild 2 0 1 1 , C h u la lo n g k o r n Un i ve r s i t y
At first glance, the low tables/benches almost disappeared or were so immediately integrated into the existing activities of the park. The low horizontal planes and umbrellas served both as functional spaces for dining but also as cultural signs of inhabitation, transforming the park into a “Thai” market.
T R UESPHE R E Status: built Bangkok, Thailand Depar tment of Architecture Co.,Ltd Conceptualized, designed the interior and produced drawings and 3D models for the interior design of a business lounge, cafe and co-working space.
IN FIN ITY SPA Status: built Bangkok, Thailand Space Popular Designed and managed the project from concept design to construction of the spa and fabrication of the furniture pieces.
SUTHATA GRACE J I R A N U N TA R AT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE STOSS Landscape Urbanism – Boston, USA Intern
sjiranuntarat@gsd.harvard.edu +1 (917) 767-0910
EDUCATION Harvard University, Graduate School of Design – Cambridge, USA Master of Architecture I
2015-2019
Chulalongkorn University, International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) – Bangkok, Thailand Bachelor of Science in Architecture, First Class Honours
2009-2013
Meiji University – Tokyo, Japan Exchange Program with Chulalongkorn University
Spring 2013
Rees Park (competition) [Toronto, Canada] Boston Resilient Open Spaces (drawings) [Boston, USA] New England Aquarium (drawings) [Boston, USA] Erie Street Plaza (drawings) [Milwaukee, USA] East Boston/Charlestown (drawings) [Boston, USA] CityDeck (drawings) [Green Bay, USA]
CBT Architects – Boston, USA Intern in Urban Design
06/2018 - 07/2018
06/2017 - 07/2017
Suffolk Downs Masterplan (in-progress) [Boston, USA] NorthPoint Masterplan (in-progress) [Cambridge, USA] Quincy Masterplan (in-progress) [Quincy, USA] Hudayriat Island (in-progress) [Abu Dhabi, UAE]
Hypothesis Design Agency – Bangkok, Thailand Designer
06/2016 - 08/2016
Department of Architecture Co.,Ltd – Bangkok, Thailand Designer
03/2015 - 06/2015
Kengo Kuma and Associates – Tokyo, Japan Architectural Intern
12/2014 - 02/2014
Space Popular – Bangkok, Thailand Designer & Project Manager
01/2014 - 11/2014
Satha Na Karn (in-progress) [Kanchanaburi, Thailand]
ACADEMIC SERVICES Teaching Assistant – Harvard Graduate School of Design Chris Reed & Sean Canty, “Multiple Miamis” Option Studio
Fall 2018
Guest Critic – Harvard Graudate School of Design Design Discovery Final Review
Summer 2018
Teaching Assistant – Harvard Graduate School of Design Jeanne Gang, "After the Storm: Restructuring an Island Ecosystem" Option Studio
Spring 2018
Research Assistant – Harvard Graduate School of Design Chris Reed/ STOSS Landscape Urbanism
Spring 2018 & Fall 2018
Research Assistant– Harvard Graduate School of Design Pierre Bélanger
Spring 2018
Thailand Creative & Design Center (TCDC) (built) [Bangkok, Thailand] TrueSphere (built) [Bangkok, Thailand]
Sydney Modern Museum (competition/shortlisted) [Sydney, Australia] Shinagawa Station (in-progress) [Tokyo, Japan] Six Senses Yangshuo (in-progress) [Yangshuo, China]
MAK Valencia (built) [Valencia, Spain] Infinity Spa (built) [Bangkok, Thailand] Hoverdomes (competition) The Cloud of Resilienc (competition/short-listed)
Guest Critic – Boston Architectural College "Telegraph Park Physical Wellness Park" Option Studio Final Review
Fall 2017
Guest Lecturer – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Architecture Core III Studio
Fall 2014
HONORS, AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
Guest Critic – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Fredrik Hellberg,"Visceral Intricacy IV: Naturally Artificial" Final Review
Fall 2014
GSD Platform 11 – Harvard Graduate School of Design “In and Out and Roundabout” and “Four Ecologies 2.0,” with Sonny Xu, published
2018
Guest Critic – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Lara Lesmes, "Active Fields" Option Studio Final Review
Fall 2014
Harvard University Asia Center Summer Research Grant – Harvard University Asia Center “Living with Water: Re-imagining Hybrid Infrastructure Systems for Thailand and Laos”
2018
Teaching Assistant – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Architecture Core II Studio
Spring 2014
The Penny White Project Fund 2018 – Harvard Graduate School of Design “Chemical Valley: Site Investigation of Sarnia, Aamjiwnaang First Nation and CN Rail”, with Sonny Xu
2018
Guest Critic – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Fredrik Hellberg,"Visceral Intricacy III: Digital Prosthetics" Final Review
Spring 2014
Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize – Harvard Graduate School of Design “Four Ecologies 2.0” Finalist Entry, with Sonny Xu and Romayh El Jurdi
2018
Teaching and Research Assistant– Chulalongkorn + Kingston University "Social fabric and spatial permutation - Ban Krua, Bangkok" Design Experimentation Workshop
J-Term 2014
Borderline Encounters: The American-Canadian Railway – Cornell University Exhibited at Cornell University's Milstein Hall with Sonny Xu and Joseph Kennedy
2018
INDA Newsletter 2015-2016 – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Interviewed for tenth anniversary publication
2017
GSD Platform 9 – Harvard Graduate School of Design Published and Exhibited at Harvard Graduate School of Design
2016
Academic Excellence Award. First Class Honors – Chulalongkorn University, INDA
2013
Teaching Assistant– Chulalongkorn University "Fluid Space" Design Experimentation Workshop
Fall 2011
SKILLS Rhino, Maxwell Render, V-ray Render, Lumion, Grasshopper, Adobe Creative Suite, AutoCAD, ArcGIS, 3ds Max, Bongo Animation, SketchUp Laser cutting, 3D Printing, CNC Milling, Woodwork, Book-making, Photography, Animation English, Thai
Software Production Languages
INDA Exhibition – Chulalongkorn University, INDA Exhibited selected works for the end-of-the-year exhibitions at Chulalongkorn University Design Merit Award – Chulalongkorn University, INDA
2011-2013 2010