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LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARY MA Architecture Thesis
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WATER TANK HOUSE
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2ND STATE Think Tank Workshop
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Studio Project and Technical Study
LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARY
A terrain as a large family house for 50 modern families
MA Architecture Thesis Project | House Location | Portland, Oregon
The term ‘nuclear family’ is commonly used and described American family who conforms to the ideals of a family unit. This stereotype of family structure leads to conventional domestic typology as an American suburban house. The stereotypical image of a house (and home) has been repeatedly reproduced to our society; whilst imposing a standardised image of a perfect family that has never existed. On the opposite end of the the spectrum, a polyamorous relationship is a niche social phenomenon in the United States. Particularly, Portland, Oregon is seen as the capital of ethical non-monogamy, the practice of openly having multiple relationships that develop beyond sex. The unfamiliar form of love compared to conventional relationships seems to influence on a way of arranging relationships and family structure. Currently, the conventional domestic typology is not appropriate to new models of social relationships and family structure, which become more complex and fluid. Collections of co-living families are sharing values in order to have a better quality of life. The new values are both collective living and commune, which negotiates new forms of sharing. ‘Love Without Boundary’ is a visionary ‘Home’ for American living’ which ac-
commodates more complex forms of household living together. It is an experimental terrain for alternative way of living and love — a large contemporary homefor 50 families, families from a wide spectrum of relationships. The surface provides ambiguity and offer inhabitants to adapt or re-appropriate their spaces according to their uses and intentions. The house, one large single storey as a landscape, is a fluid space of 20,000 sq. m. in a 150m by 150m urban block between the downtown and suburb of Portland. The project removes spatial hierarchy and walls of the American suburban house and invert its organisation by putting a porch in the middle for socialising and leading inhabitants to their clusters. The orientation, proximity and clustering are the spatial organisation principles of the project. This defines the form of the surface and creates different spatial qualities for different activities. It is a seamless space for community for living, sharing, negotiating, and parenting.
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Love Without Boundary: A terrain as a large family house for 50 modern families
Emerging subjectivity: polyamory
The majority of romantic relationships in western culture has been based on the model of monogamy: two people, together, forever, for thousands of years (Brunning, 2016). Currently, relationships are defined as a couple, family, LGBT couple, and multiple partnerships. In the US, roughly half of all marriages end in divorce, perhaps the traditional love con- cept maybe not fit for purpose (Howitt, 2016). Does ‘Love’ just come in pairs?
La Hacienda community (Wearehacienda.com, 2014)
Polyamory, a niche social phenomenon, has been attracted by sociologists, legal scholars and the public for two decades. It makes them reassess the nature of romance. The word polyamory, Greek poly, “many”, and Latin Amor, “love”, was coined in the 1960s. This means the practice of engaging in multiple sexual relationships with the agreement of all the people involved (Oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com, 2019). It is an unfamiliar form of love comparing to conventional re- lationships and romance. Therefore, polyamory is likely to influence on ways of arranging relationships, a condition of living and family structure. The question is how to rewrite the rulebook of everyday life intimate relationships and ex- perience new family life. In the United States, La Hacienda, the first polyamory apart- ment in Brooklyn, New York, was established in 2014. It is a social experiment designed to celebrate sex, and educate the curious. Its characteristic is different from the usual housings. For instance, inhabitants who are interested in non-monog- amy have unique social relationships and specific rule for a sex-positive community. Its communal space provides a safe space for sexual empowerment and growth.
La Hacienda communal space (Wearehacienda.com, 2014)
Kanye West ‘Famous’Music Video, 2016
The 2018 documentary on BBC channel by Louis Theroux called ‘Love without Limits’ investigates non-monogamy families in Portland, Oregon. It illustrates three unconven- tional families with complex family arrangements that allow family members to open up their relationship structure in many different ways. Their living spaces are a reflection of these unconventional family structures, in the way the members use, adapt, organise and occupy space. The adap- tation of living spaces occurred as a consequent but in turn, also allowed certain activities to happen and various family structures to operate. Furthermore, it shows the practical and obstacles that each family have to overcome such jeal- ousy and upset. Polyamorous relationships, an emerging form of love, is likely to create a new model of family and living conditions of peo- ple. Through my investigation on polyamory throughout his- tory and case studies, the project looks at how polyamorous relationship influences domesticity by redefining the hierar- chy of space, focusing on the temporary private space to be occupied by two partners in a polyamorous relationship.
An indigenous community in Australia
An indigenous community is Australia groups of northern in Western Australia. Notably, All of the dwellings the huts face in the same direction away from the prevailing wind. The huts are organised to protect the inhabitants from the wind.12 Also, the orientation of the huts provides privacy of families from others. This extreme sensitivity to personal space and interpersonal conduct is reflected in the camp layout, in fact, the distance between the huts, and the interaction that started behaving was fundamental, and this is a collective system of organi- sation in a radically egalitarian society in the concept of the individual is completely different from our own. From the study of the tribe camp layout, the social relation- ship is complex and different from the current social rela- tionships as modern families and social context. Therefore, this research focus on its singular orientation, proximity from each hut, a proportion of shelters which accommodate dif- ferent family conditions, and shared open space. The four feature will be considered to the design method to organise space in the project, and controlling different levels of inti- macy and ownership.
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1- The plan shows that when mother’s partner comes to stay with her in the weekend, the hierarchy and function of space are shifted by a wall bed in the open-planned kitchen-living area is pulled down. So, the master bedroom is moved fromup the 1st floor to the ground floor by the partner’s occupancy.
2- A new model of love and social relationships impact not only family structure, but also living conditions and hierarchy of their houses. Three families whhich have unique family structures, live in conventional American suburban houses. Their adaptation of living spaces occurred as a consequent but in turn, also allowed certain activities to happen and various family structures to operate.
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Model 11: floor
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Model 12: ceiling
Material: elastic fabric + acrylic colour Scale: 1:200
Material: elastic fabric + acrylic colour Scale: 1:200
Material: elastic fabric Scale: 1:200
Material: balloon Scale: 1:200
Material: balloon Scale: 1:200
Material: latex condom Scale: 1:200
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Material property test
Textiles, elastic fabric, balloon and latex condom, will be tested for its property, the ability of flexibility and form. It is observing the different possibility of emerging geometries that could be inhabitable.
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3- Spatial relationships between floor and ceiling from model 4 and 5 5- Spatial relationships between floor and ceiling from model 7 and 8 6- Spatial relationships between floor and ceiling from model 9 and 10
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Spatial organisation test
A series of models experiment through the organisation and orientation of pockets to create privacy and intimacy on a single surface. Furthermore, each organisation comprises of two models to investigate the relationships between floor and ceiling topography which are able to create different spatial qualities.
6- Spatial relationships between floor and ceiling from model 11 and 12 7- 3D scan model 11 for examining its surface geometry 8- Spatial quality from the relationship between floor and ceiling models (model 11 and 12) 9- Spatial quality from the relationship between floor and ceiling models
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MIDDLE FLOOR PLAN -The house will remove the hierarchy of American suburban house and invert its organisation by putting a porch in the middle where people can gather and socialise in the area.Â
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ZOOM MIDDLE FLOOR PLAN- The big pocket can be space for collective kitchen for each cluster. Inhabitants can cook and eat together around this area. Small pockets will provide privacy for dwellers, between small pockets they can negotiate with others for shared common space, they can extend their pockets to sleep together, share their living space as watching a movie or work together.
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SECTION AA’
11- Each cluster consists of different pockets for different domestic activities like sleeping, living or dining. All pockets face to the same direction to control privacy and visibility for dwellers.
12- Space between two living clusters is an area for collective and shared activities in the house which is defined by different light qualities from the roof.
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13 - Model scale 1:200 700mm x 350mm
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14 - Model scale 1:100 600mm x 300mm
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WATER TANK HOUSE
A combination of a water tank and suggestions of a way of living
Studio Project and Technical Study Project | House Location | Mirandela, Portugal
My project is a combination of the water tank and a weekend houses located in Marmelos, a Portuguese village in the area of Mirandela. Getting into my direction of the project, this is formed by the previous principles which are a case study: Hildebrand House by Gerrit Rietveld, Th e Good Life: the house of pragmatism, Live project: the construction of new emerging forms of domesticity, and Spacial sequence, and the site condition. My proposal is an integration between the water tank and suggestion for a way of living in the village responding to the existing context : Marmelos is an agricultural village in Portugal. Th ere is not enough precipitation in summer. Th erefore, my architecture is designed to collect water for inhabitants and distribute water to farmlands in the summer period. Additionally, the building is divided spaces into two parts by the tank’s surface which are the space inside and beneath it. Th is ambiguity is ambitious; it is real and precise and yet simultaneously vague, intangible and unclear. Th e is slightly ambiguous, for it does not have an accurate programme. There are many possibilities of functions in a different period. For instance, in summer, it is a water tank to collect water and a public swimming
pool for the village. In winter, when the tank is empty, the space inside the tank may be adapted to a playground, amphitheatre or communal area. Furthermore, the space underneath the tank is likely to be the space underneath the water tank is inhabited for domesticity or changing area when it is swimming pool.
Water Tank House A combination of a water tank and suggestions of a way of living
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1 - exterior view from public approach
2 - domestic activities as cooking, dinner and living
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ROOF PLAN
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3 - a water tank is used as a public swimming pool in the summertime
4 - a water tank is used as communal space in the wintertime
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Water Tank House A combination of a water tank and suggestions of a way of living
GROUND PLAN
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5 - sleeping and working space underneath a water tank
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Water Tank House A combination of a water tank and suggestions of a way of living
6 - 1:5 physical model: one module of Z-profi le glass
7 - a connection between two materials: concrete and Reglit glass
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TYPICAL SECTION A 1. component(Tank C): reinforced concrete 2. concrete paver 100mm thickness slope to drain 3. column: reinforced concrete 4. beam: steel beam zig zag 200x200mm. hot- dip galvanized finish 5. Pilkington Reglit: Z-shaped Profilit 6. floor: reinforced concrete 7. ceramic tile 8. drainge gravel 9. concrete pile cap
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DETAIL C 1. component(Tank C): reinforced concrete 2. waterproofing mortar 3. Porcelain mosaic tile 4. concrete paver 100mm thickness slope to drain 5. beam: steel beam zig zag 200x200mm. hot- dip galvanized finish 6. structural sillicone 7. Pilkington Reglit: Z-shaped Profilit 8. Krystol waterstop treatment 9. Krystol waterstop grout
9 - public bathroom with translucent steps
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2ND STATE
Flexible construction systems for new housing typologies
Tink Tank Workshop Project | Exhibition Location | UK Timber Expo, Birmingham
Different states in construction are addressing the quest of flexibility in architecture; bypassing the modernist idea of - form follows function - and allow for the need of rapid and frequent alterations in todays building. We are constructing two architectural states which are de- signed to showcase the possibility (story) of flexibility going from a more closed compact “state”, state 1 in Grymsdyke Farm; lived in by one of the students. To an exploded, more open structure, state 2, showcasing different possible modes of dwelling for the Timber Expo 2018. These two states only exhibit two design possibilities out of the many states that the outcome of the timber construction system can be arranged in. During a two day Think Tank using digital and physical proto- typing, followed by a week of 1:1 design and construction at Grymsdyke farm; architects, engineers, fabricators and students debated, designed and constructed the presented flexi- ble construction system. We build on ideas from Jean Prouve and Alejandro Arevena, allowing buildings to grow and change over time, as well as personal developed timber construction systems. Participants of the Think Tank combine their knowl- edge of timber construction methods developed in their prac- tice as for example MINKA, a tim-
ber plywood construction system in the US, as well as MassBespoke’s cassette systems and discrete timber building blocks.
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The Think Tank brings together structural engineers, makers, architects and theorists to collaborate through design and making during a 10 day workshop taking place in Grymsdyke Farm. Supported by students from the Royal College of Art in London it is headed and tailed by a two day prototyping workshop / symposiums with an in between digital fabrication workshop. A fantastic way to collaborate with people from different fields and design and build a new strategy for flexible living. The combination of disciplines and students in the Think Tank lead to an alphabet of elements, that is connected and struc- turally enhanced by steel cables and imagined in the farm and Expo state. The alphabet is constructed of 9 mm plywood. These different letters handle a specific condition within the design based on geometry, configuration and location. We are anticipating more states and locations to follow and build on the expertise and great collaboration of people com- ing together in a making and debating Think Tank, sharing ideas and trigger a collective creative response to this flexible quest posed by todays contemporary living.
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Tink Tank Workshop THE ALPHABET OF ELEMENTS
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It is designed to accomodate the need for frequent and rapid alterations which is made possible by the use of the post tensioning system. In order for this to work properly it is key to design each configuration with its associated assembly sequence in mind. In the logistic assembly planning we there- fore make use of multiple subassemblies, where each element plays an important part in a hierarchy that makes up the full assembly.
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THE N-STATE SYSTEM The project investigates the common observation that contem- porary living spaces and housing units do not act as isolated objects, but rather as hubs within a larger network of everyday life. One which has a variety of domestic systems and devices that extend, enhance, attach to and augment our more tradi- tional notions of what constitutes a house. As such the mod- ernist paradigm of ‘form follows function’ is by no means a valid description of how we should conceive our living spaces. Not only because form outlives, by far, the regularly altered functions of today’s buildings, but more so because the need for rapid and frequent alterations should reflect the way we design and conceive buildings. The N-state system investigates building form as imperma- nent, rejects the idea of ‘post-rationalisation’ in the design process, and orients itself towards an idea of design freedom through ‘pre-rationalisation’.The project explores modules / small structures and connec- tions related to the idea of design for dis- and reassembly, allowing for housing schemes that can alter their nature, grow and relocate. The project addresses the idea of flexibility through digital and physical prototyping at the scale of the element, a crossing of surfaces, a stacking of “rings” and at the scale of the “room”. The flexibility is made clear through a change of configura- tion; 2 states, where the structure designed and constructed at Grymsdyke farm, state 1 has been dis-assembled and now re- assembled in state 2 for the timber expo here in Birmingham.
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1 - 1st State at Grymsdyke Farm 14th - 22nd Sep. 2018 2 - 2nd State at UK Timber Expo, Birmingham 9-11th October 2018
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Witinan Watanasap
witi9.w@gmail.com, +66 91 9896632 Education & professional qualifications 2017-2019 Royal College of Art London, United Kingdom
MA Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2) Dissertation with Distinction
2010-2015
B.Arch with Second Class Honours
Kasetsart University Bangkok, Thailand
Professional experience Kanoon Studio, junior architect Bangkok, Thailand
July 2015-October 2016
Supermachine Studio, trainee architect Bangkok, Thailand
May-August 2014
Atelier Bow-Wow, trainee architect Tokyo, Japan
March-May 2014
Awards - Nominated: Blueprint for the Future Exhibition 2019 - Finalist: ASA International Design Competition 2016 - Architecture Thesis of the year 2015: Degree Show 2015 Skills Professional AutoCAD, Rhino, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Keyshot Operational Grasshopper, iMovie, Maya and Unity Nationality Thai Languages Native Speaker Thai Fluent English