SAC Renovation

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Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center

Completion: 2020

Project type: Architectural and interior renovation

Project size: 1200 SQ.M. (aprox.)

Design Team: Supermachine Studio, Pitupong Chaowakul with Rachanone Thaikaew, Krit Parephan, Theerayut Somtua and Napapat Lasavanich

Landscape Designer: Urbanis

Photograph: W Workspace

Supermachine Studio has joined forces with the passionate Landscape Designer Urbanis to craft a visionary new concept for the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Center, a precious institution nestled in an idyllic corner of Bangkok that is not easily accessible. This one-of-a-kind space combines exhibition halls, a library, an auditorium, and offices dedicated to showcasing local and global anthropological wonders. The first phase of renovations focuses on enhancing both human and vehicular accessibility, creating a stunning café, revitalizing the façade and lobby of the main building, and breathing new life into the central garden.

Existing building before the renovation

Honda Big Wing, Pitsanulok

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Project: Honda Big Wing

Location: Pitsanulok, Thailand

Type: Architecture

Size: 600m2

Completion: Q4, 2019

Design Team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Theerayut Somtua, Sujinda Khawkham and Krit Parephan

Big Wing is Honda’s space for big bike line, a popular product among enthusiast segment. In the last years, it has been expanding around Thailand’s provinces that have demand. Pitsanulok is one of the cities embracing the big bike culture. We were asked to design a compact showroom + service facility for the brand. Taking the “Black Swan” theme, we propose to divide the building facade into smaller black planes composing a more dynamic geometry. The mass is tilted up creating a big opening for a large motobike display. The adjacent tower is angularly cut open to create entrance for visitors. The showroom occupies 40 percent of the building whereby the rest is a motobike service facility that span to the back end of the plot.

Speck Hostel very closed to completion

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Today, our team visited the construction site of Speck Hostel. It has been a while our lovely client building his hotel due to many unforeseeable factors. However it is more promising than ever that our project is reaching the finish line. It could take a few more months till SPECK is in full operation we think.

Speck Hostel

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Project : Speck Hostel

Location: Sukhumvit, Bangkok, Thailand

Size: 590 SQ.M.

Project type: Architectural Renovation & Interior Design

Timeline: Designed 2017, Will be completed in Q2 2020

Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Kasidis Puaktes, Hutsama Juntaratana and Katanyoo Angwattanapanich

Main Entrance
Cafe’ & Reception
Dining Lobby

K STU Proposal

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K-05Looking back at our proposal to build a super compact studio and office in 2016. All pre-fab concrete panel designs have been studied to achieve time and quality requirement of the project. Unfortunately, this is again stayed in computer.

Office somewhere

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Over the years, there are more stuff that we can not show to the public more than we can for different reason. This project is one of the cases. We now called it “Office somewhere” because the awkward relationship we had with the owner who disappeared long time ago for some reason we don’t want to talk about. We tend to think that this is pretty much of any design practices’ nature.. XXXX happens!!!

However we still like our design and think we can show it to the world anonymously. It is a 2 floor extension on existing building. We proposed to build a spaceship-like structure on the existing building. We also proposed to cover the entire existing one with white vertical fins.

So long..

“Office-R”, Our stuff that they don’t build

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“It is typical in architect office to have work on something and not able to complete it for different kind of reasons. Time have been spent… Ideas have been tested (to a certain degree)… We will now share of some of the past proposals that have never been realized on our blog”

Office-R is a pretty typical small size office taking space in a typical row building existing through out Thailand. They rent out the upper floors that they don’t use for other firm while the one on the ground planed to be rent to the bicycle shop. Every inch of the surface is money, the western facade is their existing commercial billboard. Our task is to come up with the new look that merges all that have said with in the limited budget. We proposed the new aluminum facade in a composition of crises-crossing turn. Some vacant spaces between the brick are the windows bringing light into their working spaces.

Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Theerayut Somtua

 

Bamboo school, an earthquake relief school in chaingrai

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Baan Paa Kor Dum School

Location: Chaingrai, Thailand

Builder: Nawarat Pattanakarn

Sponsors: Nawarat Pattanakarn with the supporting fund raised by Design for Disaster

Coordinator: Design for Disaster

Organizer: The association of Siamese Architecture

Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Sujinda Khawkum and Kasidis Puaktes

Landscape: Conceptual idea by T.R.O.P.

Photograph: Wison tungthunya

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Following an 6.4 Richter earthquake in Chiangrai in early 2014, a group of volunteer architects coordinated by Design for Disaster joined forces by each team designing one classroom building to provide spaces in schools in which part of the classrooms were critically damaged by the disaster. Supermachine Studio was one of the teams agreed to join the rebuilding effort. The school assigned for our team was Baan Pa Kor Dum school located in Mae Loaw, Chaingrai where the 2 story building was badly damaged and meant to be dismantled. The new site appointed was the vacant corner in the school right adjacent to the old building.

Our design approach was simple; we would like to use bamboo as a main structure having heard about the wooden tribal house that damaged but survived the same quake. We would like to build a bamboo architecture much stronger typical bamboo structures in our country to prepare for unforeseen circumstance. Students should have more time to evacuate the building. In case the building is deformed, bamboo members are much easier to replaced than concrete ones used to build typical schools.

Another goal is to be able to keep the 3 existing trees standing in the center of the site. The new classroom building is therefore bend 90 degree to avoid the trees which splits the mass in the 2 groups. In between the 2 masses is a common area covered by the curved roof. It is our belief that education today happens outside of the class as much as inside therefore we think that this common area is needed. Moreover it is a connection between the peaceful back garden to the rest of the school. We also fill the walls facing the garden with windows as we think the class condition shall be as open as possible.