A conversation to negotiate with the sun. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
28/06/2020.
[Bangkok] Thailand
metalocus, MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
metalocus, MARYAN RODRÍGUEZ BUERGO
Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, a Bangkok-based architecture studio, has designed a single-family home on a 428 m² plot in the city of Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok is the capital and the most populous city of Thailand. It is a cosmopolitan place filled with high-rise buildings, ancient temples, amazing palaces, and bustling markets.
Bangkok is the capital and the most populous city of Thailand. It is a cosmopolitan place filled with high-rise buildings, ancient temples, amazing palaces, and bustling markets.
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
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Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated. Photograph by Rungkit Charoenwat
Ground floor plan. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
First floor plan. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Second floor plan. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Roof floor plan. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Longitudinal section. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Cross section. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Longitudinal section. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Cross section. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
West elevation. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
South elevation. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
East elevation. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
North elevation. Sena House by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
The single-family house, by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, is a sophisticated design in which they use a wall as a special filter to filter light and create a series of atmospheres that change according to the sun graph at different times of the day.
The distribution of the house is made up of three floors. The ground floor is where the common rooms are located, connected to the second floor by a staircase that surrounds the living room, dining room and kitchen in double height.
On the second floor there is a multipropose room, a hidden laundry and access by the following stairs to the third floor. This floor is where that play of light is created from the inside with the creation of a glass wall, and from an outside view it is a curtain that provides privacy. The third floor is the one that houses the most private areas, the three bedrooms.
The distribution of the house is made up of three floors. The ground floor is where the common rooms are located, connected to the second floor by a staircase that surrounds the living room, dining room and kitchen in double height.
On the second floor there is a multipropose room, a hidden laundry and access by the following stairs to the third floor. This floor is where that play of light is created from the inside with the creation of a glass wall, and from an outside view it is a curtain that provides privacy. The third floor is the one that houses the most private areas, the three bedrooms.
Project description by Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Creating an environment and one’s own context is paramount to housing; bright whiteness, clay, stone flake and transparency form this three-personalities and four-atmospheres building.
The 428 sqm rectangular plot is squeezed between two narrow roads. The north side is next to a two-story house. The east side next to a small street is deep enough to be an entrance of a parking space. The south side is a high road and the west side is next to the courtyard. These physical components surrounding the plot are crowded buildings and, as it faces to the high road, it also means confrontation between each other.
From the conditions of the space, the house is placed paralleling to the length of the land, close to the north side, which is the deepest part of access and to be used as an entrance from the road, leaving the other side, the front of the house, as much space as possible, in a form of a house lawn, to reduce the impact from the opposite building.
As a three-story house, the ground floor is planned to let the comers walk through a fish pond and a two-story high hall that connects to the stairs and a living room above before entering the main door.
The ground floor consists of a living room, a dining space, a pantry and a kitchen, all of which are embraced by an L-shape staircase rising up to the second floor. A certain angle of this set of stairs provides an open view and an extra wide space to extend a journey, allowing the users to spend time to perceive the sense of space, a spacious atmosphere that covers two floors, spread over to other areas that they are about to arrive.
The second floor, taken from the stairs, is a living room where time is most spent per day and in many time periods. At this area, the glass block wall projects natural light from outside, different shades of light according to each period of day, creating the glimmering, coloring atmosphere and stories for the interior. Through this glass block wall, the view seen from inside the house is made for perceiving time of day while, looking from outside, this element functions as a glass curtain. Apart from those is a laundry and washing area hidden behind at the back.
The third floor is used for the three bedrooms. The walls facing outside of each bedroom are filtered with two-layer walls, that is, a glass block wall that continues from the second floor as an outer layer and a mirror wall that enhances the feeling of privacy as well as smoothing light from outside as an inner layer: a conversation to negotiate with the sun.
The three layers of the building surface are laid out differently, even it may seem unnecessary, but, in this context, it is absolutely necessary, yet it is humble. The top layer is covered by fine black stone flakes and orange-brown clay that are smoothly blended in, gently handled, and woven together with the long strip clerestories that scatter throughout the large glass block wall. This, apart from functioning as an actual wall, is like a screen projecting life from outside to inside and from inside to outside, putting things together into one story, in the same context, a living together of different concepts.
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Architects
Project team
Cherngchai Riawruangsangkul, Thanakit Wiriyasathit, Tanakul Chookorn.
Collaborators
Structural Engineer.- Chaianuchit Srihard.
Client
Anakawee Sinrut, Patrapee Sompoo.
Builder
Decha Satapat 149 Co.,Ltd
Area
Site Area.- 428 sqm. Built Area.- 426 sqm.
Dates
Completed.- 2020.
Manufacturers
Paint.- TOA, Earth Colors. Stone Texture.- C.V.Natural Stone. Glass Block.- Changkaew. Glass Window.- Guardion. Aluminium Window.- Aluart. Tiles.- Cotto. Sanitary Ware.- Cotto. Lighting.- Light@Work, Lamptitude. Kitchen.- Hooth. Air-Condition.- Daikin. Fitting-Handle.-Hafele. Switch-Outlet.- Panasonic. Laminate.- Lamitak.
Photography
Rungkit Charoenwat
Cherngchai Riawruangsangkul. Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated
Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated, established (2007) and directed by Cherngchai Riawruangsangkul, is a small design studio specializing in architecture, interior design and other related fields. Its philosophy is based on interdisciplinary experimentation that seeks mainly alternative ideas, approaches and practices. Archimontage Design Fields Sophisticated aims to go beyond architectural familiarity to investigate, question and challenge the conventional meaning, function and aesthetics of architecture.
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