Supermachine studio can design a house too!!!! It might have been a wrong perception that we don’t design residential project. Looking back at the works in our 10 year portfolio, there is only one villa completed among big array of public space projects. We are still in love with great aspects of living diversities.
Design Team: Rachanone Thaikaew and Krit Parephan
Project type: Music festival production design
Location: Live Park, Bangkok
Lighting design and operate: Lightsource
It is our 2nd time this year to get involve with HIP-HOP. Now we have already believe that it is a big HIT here in Thailand. We are in charge of designing all big and small elements in the festival including main stage, mini stage, street dance space, landmark and showcase spaces. It is a mini project that we take a chance to catch up with today’s teen culture that sometimes we have to admit that it is not very easy.
Project: J-Garage
Project size: 300 SQ.M. (Aprox.)
Project type: Architecture and Interior
Location: Bangkok
Client: un-disclosable
It was the same time when our director about the turn his small house in Bangkok into a garage, we were approached by a client, who has crazy lifestyle, to design pretty much of the same program but in a much crazier degree.
The 300 SQ.M. living garage is a house for our client’s hobbies. It should accommodate spaces for a collection of his motorbikes and exotic cars as well as a small private recording studio and some corners to party with his friends. And all should be done in relatively low budget.
Our design of the garage is combination of simple geometries criss-crossing on each other and covered by a single simplistic tilt roof. The overlapping masses create different kind of open and semi open space in the project, ie; a pool, a party balcony or cliff climbing space. The 2 main high-light spaces are his motorbilke and car garage where we propose a large glass doors and aDark Knight style, fully illuminated ceiling. On second floor are space for a record room and a naturally ventilated party balcony.
Project: Osotspa building P2 office renovation
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Project size: 9,000 SQ.M. (aprox.)
Completion: 2018
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Theerayut Somtua and Yupadee Suvisith
Design Team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Yupadee Suvisith, Theerayut Somtua
Client Osotspa
Project scope of work: Interior design
Size: 600 SQ.M.
Location: Osotspa HQ., Ramkhamhang, Bangkok
Completion: Q2 2018
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Sujinda Kawkham, Hutsama Juntaratana and Rachanone Thaikaew
Year of completion: November 2018
Location: GMM Live house, Bangkok
Client: GAN
Never Say Cutz is a popular gentleman barber shop started in 2008 by a famous Thai Hip-Hop singer, Way Thaitanium and his wife. It has been expanding to have more than 10 branches around Thailand. For their 10 years anniversary, they want to organize a Hip-Hop concert + a barber service + a basketball together in one event to thank to their fans as well as get the staffs together. The event is to take place in an indoor concert hall, GMM Live house at Central world, downtown Bangkok.
With this unique combination, we take on the project starting by combining barber space+concert and basket ball stand. Placing a row of barber station on top of the spectator platform is to create an unusual way of cutting hair while watching performance of artists at the same time. The barber stand is placed near to audiences’ entrance to divide a foyer zone where people can get drink and socialize.
The stage design goes very simple and clean. A single tilt frame full of moving lights is placed covering the stage. We would like to create concert scenes painted by beam of lights in different colors as this is an indoor venue where the environment is easy to be controlled. With this simple configuration of lights, performance scenes can be vary from monumental to aggressive or even pop.
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Hutsama Juntaratana, Nattaphon Worawanitchaphong and Krit Parephan
Location: The Ocean, Nakornratchasima, Thailand
Completion: Dec 2018
Client: Gan & GMM Grammy
Using Khmar cloths to build a pavilion’s roof is not new for us, neither creating a hammock space. But combining the 2 ideas is our first time and it is meant to be here in BMMF9. We are happy to see this element re-appearing in the event as it is one of the original elements created since the 1st edition of Big Mountain Music Festival back in 2010.
Typically our Khmar market have been built using bamboo tided with PVC rope, a very traditional temporary way of erecting such structure. But because of the site constraint, we have to change it to a steel scaffolding and pipe system which save time and damage ground condition less. 1080 pieces of cloths are hung in pattern creating shading for 72 hammocks below. UV lighting is installed to create a dim atmosphere where fluorescent stripes on the roof shine. The Hammock market is placed in front of food stalls making it a space for people to relax after eating. A lot of people spend the whole night here after long days of music.
As of today, early 2019, when Bangkok is cover with dust from pollution, we would like to share our projected image of Dindaeng intersection, a famous Bangkok area where super highway from the north entering the city. We have recently re-create series of images in retrospect to our future city project 10 years ago. Back then, we imagine our city, Bangkok, as an automobile steroid mega city where mass transit system failed terribly because of chronic corruption. Multi-layered highways are built over other to serve “CARS” but still fail to solve serious traffic problems.
Sadly enough, what we pessimistically pictured was not very different from what happening in our city right now. Bangkok has been facing smog situation from higher in standard PM2.5 for a few years now specially in January-February when air is dry and still. People and medias are just aware of the problem now when the problem has reached horrendous level. Seeing big country like China tackling it in a serious manner, Bangkokian has to realise that only awareness is not enough, there need to be substantial measure by everyone living in this mega city to make situation better. Otherwise the reality of our city can look worse than the image that Supermachine studio produces.
Design Team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Suttahathai Niyomwas and Rachanone Thaikaew
Location: The Ocean, Nakornratchasima, Thailand
Completion: December 2018
Client: Gan & GMM Grammy
Many times our designs start from silly ideas… Rumwong stage is truly one of those cases. Born to house a traditional dance activity widely popular in Thailand’s villages, the stage has a very unique set up. The musicians usually play folk music and their audiences dance around in circle. Sometimes there are dancers on stage whom people can go asking to dance with. These days, Rumwong is not easy to find in big cities of Thailand, therefore having it in Big Mountain Music Festival is an eye opening for for a lot of young audiences.
From our observation, Rumwong dance needs a central pivot as one of important elements for people to dancing around (almost like a camp fire dance.) Back in 2014, we came up with a silly idea of putting “Monster” in the center of the stage and let the audience having activities around it. We learned it from a typical Japanese super hero series where gigantic monsters invade the world and always triumphed. The 6 m. high inflatable green monster was made following a 2D sketch and placed as an emblem of this stage for the last 5 edition of BMMF.
This year sees a return of many items from previous BMMF celebrating its 9th edition. We place the UFO (from District 9 stage) above the Monster in Rumwong stage making this stage even more fun… A giant abduction. Rumwong stage, ran by a famous rapper, Jeoy Boy, has always been full of fun mixing different genre of Thai music together with folk song.
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul with Theerayut Somtua, Rachanone Thaikaew, Krit Parephan, Rachanone Thaikaew, Suttahathai Niyomwas and Nattaphon Worawanitchaphong
Light plotting: Duckunit
Location: Big Mountain Music Festival 9, The Ocean, Nakornratchasima, Thailand
Client: Gan & GMM Grammy
Photograph: Supermachine Studio
Big Mountain Music festival is truely meant to be for every one. In its 9th edition, there are music from almost all Genre across 10 stages. One of the stages that emphasizes this mindset is a stage called “Secret stage” ran by Trasher, a Thai party organizer famous among LGBT group. The model of this attraction is an evolution from Soi 2 stage appeared in BMMF3-BMMF6, a dance show-based stage with DJ in the center.
The design is largely inspired by 1966 American Sci-fi movie, Fantastic voyage which is a story of a shrunk microscopic submarine that travel inside an injured scientist. In the movie, there are scenes showing the crews traveling into human’s vain and organs fighting with unwanted entities that cause disease.
Our idea is to hide the enclosed stage behind the toilet units as main idea is to make it a hidden attraction. Once entering the toilets door, people will go through a tunnel of stretched fabric flooded with dimmed black light. Then they will be directed to the main pub space where the stage on the other end is the main focus.
The main entrance of the stage is a 3 standing toilet units put in front of a corrugated zinc wall.
At our garage, our test mock up of the stretched fabric for the tunnel
During day time, a stand up comedy show filled up the tunnel
At night, “A Secret Fantastic Voyage”
For the stage, it takes a very primitive approach referencing a stage construction of Thailand’s traditional play, LI-KAE. It is composed of multi-layered painted curtain. With painted graphic on it, the backdrop creates an perspective illusion of a grand room in palace suiting LI-KAE stories. Our version of Secret stage back drop is printed with intestine graphic simply to suit a voyage into the body theme. However lighting placement is configured not in LI_KAE’s way but clubbing configuration. DJ booth is set in the center decorated with fresh thousand of bananas making it feel like he is performing in a pile of fresh fruits.
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