BKK House — Bangkok, TH
Status: Proposal

The Architecture creates a relationship with nature through the elements of light and shadow, sounds, materiality and landscape. It blurs the boundaries between public/private and internal/external. This is done through the careful curation of materials such as glass, timber and concrete, dissolving those into lights, translucencies, reflection, refractions and textures.

The main focus was to define a home that breaks away from a traditional understanding of a series of separated and isolated rooms in order to create a series of open transitional spaces through the use of light and materials. The horizontal plane of the house is based on two linear trajectories, north to south is the living trajectory, comprises of the living room, bedrooms, soaking bath and the shrine while the west to east trajectory is the operative trajectory with the kitchen, dining area, the maid’s room and lavatory.  The study is where those trajectories intersect, creating a communal point.

The vertical plane of the house is a series of linear boundaries that are either defined or blurred. Externally, the architecture wraps itself with a thick boundary of a dark concrete wall so solid that it creates at the same time a sense of protection and warmth.