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The New City of South East Asia

2008-2010

Rem Koolhaas and the Influence of Architectural Thought and Practice
on OMA School Architects

Great project, through your approach you were 'embedded' without actually being there,
very clever. (03.02.2011)
its very interesting!!! (28.01.2011)
"Very Interesting Yan" (23.01.2011)
"amazing - truly great work!" (24.01.2011)
"His graduate thesis, “Rem Koolhaas and the Influence of Architectural Thought and Practice
on OMA School Architects” was by far the most thought provoking thesis of all time.
He was able to unraveled complex relationship between Rem Koolhaas, OMA*AMO,
and people who worked with the organization and capturing its influences that shaped
contemporary architectural practice of this era." (20.01.2011)

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------OMA School Architects.

This project is the research, which took almost 2 years to be completed, on how Rem Koolhaas work on his designs, his architectural approaches, and his architectural practice. What is so special about him that makes him one of the world greatest architects. What is so special about his practice in OMA*AMO. And what are the influences of his work and his thinking process on the company he worked with both in the past and the present. The Thai Completed (A4) 264 pages book. Before, architecture was designed and created by architect’s individual approach. It is the common practice to solve design problems. The variety of design can be depended on social, environment, economics, and belief. The approach is usually passed from masters to their students which particular context helps shaping design. However, for most architects, “intuitive and aesthetic senses are still remain in their heart and soul. The establishment of design firm who is a former architect in Rem Koolhass’s house has become larger across Europe to America and some parts in Asia. The thinking approach is followed research-based practice which is the most prominent approach today. The objectives of this research are: 1.to analyze Rem Koolhaas’s architectural approach and his way of teaching; 2. to analyze Rem Koolhaas’ system of passing on knowledge through his office; 3. to study the influence of Rem Koolhaas on OMA School architects. Previous / Next image (1 of 1) Interviews of Rem Koolhaas’s friends, professor, and OMA School Architects both independent and dependent around the world were conducted for 5 months. The result from overall interviews begin with finding solution, based on the original research question, and use “indexing” as methodology which lead to important “keywords” and information verification, then use “data triangulation” method for cross-checking the solution. The procedures of clarifying the objectives are separated into research issues and using qualitative research methodology by gathering data from interview and other secondary sources. The result of this study has shown that Koolhaas’s approach can be divided into 2 steps: conceptual thinking and physical design thinking. His distinguishable approach neglected all architectural conventions and did not specify the result of his approach only on the building, but integrated social, economic, political issued with architectural thoughts to find out the new way by denying intuitive thinking in all processes but use research as a thinking tool, which corresponds with his various roles as designer, writer, educator, and lecturer. The overlapped roles result in new forms of architectural production such as joint research with academic institutions, new genres of architectural publication, consistent supplies of skilled employees for OMA*AMO and the discourse of architectural itself. Through his many outlets, Koolhaas not only demonstrates his approach to architecture, but also spreads his influence for into the academic, professional, and theoretical realms.

March 2008
The Buoyant Ocean Heater

Global Warming has been hot issue for years. But the campaigns to solve this problem have no
powerful impact worldwide. They are always campaign to solve the problem from disaster with no plan
to prevent it from happening...

This work, a quest to save the planet, requires so many researches to support the possibility of doing it,
to support the question of how to solve/help Global Warming worldwide,
and to support the everyday life of the people all around the world.

The key of this quest to save the planet lies in this simple sentence: matters always exist.
Matters always contain the energy even when they change their form and shape.
The concept can be used with human’s excrement and adapted into the powerful ‘weapon’
to deal with Global Warming.


Jan. 2011-

The Family Tree Project
re-searching on one of the oldest family of Ranong,
to collect all contents of the family:
Architecture with an old Hutong layout, and decorated with Sino-protuguese style, Tradition, etc.

2012-



2011

Resort & SPA
Project Team:
Chutima Kajornnarongvanich
Pongsakorn Pongtaveewirat
Denpong Setthawong
Chupn Tienchutima
and Patthawee Suthiyuth
The Fruit Spa is located in the new luxury resort in Rayong, Thailand. (will update soon)


2008

Johor Art Farm
Malaysia has been trying so hard to leverage the southern district to match what Singapore offers
in many issues to attract new investors: urban development, real estate development, leisure zone development,
and new economic district development.
By the way, Singapore is parted from Malaysia in 1965. And with its super small area,
just 710.2 square kilometers, of the nation makes Singapore to not own any original cultures.
But the statistic recently shows that Singapore create the most value in art auction in South-East Asia region.
With new economic planning along with its originally beautiful nature in Johor Bahru,
new architectural program is created to support the ‘environmental art’ which is a sustainable art movement today.
And the concept of the new program is to use its nature to create new art style
and create new alternative energy use also.






Nov-Dec 2010

The White-Box (completed)
The new Restaurant & Bakery in Chiang mai.
adding new white & clear-long box to the existing log country style home for creating new feeling space.


welcome you to enjoy nice meal at here!!

2009

New Thai Public Space in Metropolitan project
in search & experimental to find the new type of public space in existing infrastructure and appropriate
with Thai contemporary style. By try to transform existing roof of town houses suitable
to propose the new rice field public space.
project team:
Chub Tienchutima.
Chutima Kajornnarongwanich.

Aug-2011


March-Sept 2009

Vigan, Philippines Heritage Homeowner's Preservation Manual
Status: completed

The Heritage Homeowners’ Preservation Manual is a useful component our heritage conservation program.
It takes us a step further by making us understand better not only the significance of our place and its setting,
but also the nature and special care required to maintain the various elements of our ancestral houses
which make them unique, special and environment-friendly.
This manual also helps us rediscover the genius and artistry of our forefathers, thus enhancing our
pride of ownership and sense of responsibility.
By making us aware of our distinct historic properties, this manual can stimulate us to make creative use of
unutilized spaces within our properties, thereby encouraging investment, job creation,
enhanced social environment.
The publication also pays homage to our fiestas and festivals, traditional arts, crafts, and local delicacies.

Stabilizing Loose Wall Plaster Repair Technic

Repointing Brick Walls

French Drain Technic

Brick Repair Stitching Technic

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Insect Damage Repair Technic

Wooden Joint Technic

Sloped Shoulder and Scissor Joint

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Wooden Repair Technic

March-June 2008

Sila Evason Hideaway, Samui, Thailand (On going)
Walkway, Swimming pool & Sunbath Deck Design
(Department of ARCHITECTURE Co.,Ltd.)

Sila Evason Hideaway, a five-star resort in worldwide, has finished its first construction phase in 2004, and
it has been awarded one of the 116 best new hotels of the world voted
by Conde Nast Traveler Magazine’s readers.

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In the following construction phase, there are many development processes in common area, main restaurant,
dining terrace, swimming pool, etc.
I took responsibility in these development processes by working on physical study models and drawings
to create new architectural programs in the area between restaurant and swimming pool.

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Designing in the expansion section of the project by working on experimental models and drawings
before creating the construction drawings.

2007

iCassette (Completed)
Cassette is a junk created from ‘cultural changes’ in which it changed the way we listen to music into digital content.
Cassette is outdated and considered as useless piece of junk.



Traveled throughout all the giant pile of junk in Bangkok to find the cassette and creating its system to develop
into architectural function.

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This project tried hard to metaphor this ‘junk’ into architectural functions by developing module system from it.
Find its movement system and its effects from wind and lighting.
This system can somehow create an interesting partition and rooftop in any architecture.

How to ‘read’ the system from waste materials.
How to work so damn hard in a week and just get some rest by taking a short nap and eat some snacks!!

2008

Oct-Dec 2009
Up in the Air
The interactive balloon surface.
Interactive design defining new spaces in Happy New Year party by using a huge surface balloon which allows people to interact with it by remote control, making it change its color. The surface balloon also acts like a fluid background for animation show and acts like an equalizer illustration showing how loud the music is as in most music player programs.



Worked as a pioneer of the project, generating its original idea and do all the works to get this idea done physically.
images & video courtesy : Tharit Bunteongjit

2008


6 Finalists The New Thai Police Box Competition
The police should stand aside the people. But in this modern context, it seems the police can’t contact with the people much.
This project was to create a new Thai police box under the concept that the police should contact with people easier than before. The police box contained a wall that acts like a screen for a projector inside the police box. And this ‘wall’ will display some texts or some sentences to contact with the passing by people in real time.

July-Dec 2010

Farang-ner Hostel (Commission)
This premium-grade hostel is a renovated building in Chiang Mai downtown which perfectly combines local culture and western culture together. This hostel is, not only an accommodation, to make new experiences of how people live under the same architectural spaces in the concept of ‘socialize’.
Its design provides enjoyable use of the spaces.
The spaces are such flexible to support different kind of activities from users.
This ‘gimmick’ offers new experiences of accommodation. The entire gimmick came from an intensive research on hostel users with age around 20 - 30 years old.




Worked as ‘alone architect’ in a small team consisted of developers, chefs, and interior designers and taken responsibility in concept and theme development, brand identity creating, architectural designing, interior designing, art directing, graphic designing, marketing analysis, construction management, and even construction permission asking from local government.





March-April 2007

The World War II had been suffering people in Hiroshima and also in the whole Japan for 65 years. The pain forced Japanese people to help rebuild their nation to be one of the strongest nations in the world today. Unfortunately, the globalization in this modern day has erased the spirits of the nation out of Japanese young generation.
The daily lives of Japanese people are contained with extremely stress. Its people seem to forget the spirits of the nation. They just want to work as hard as possible to gain money and success rapidly. Everyday they have to get to their offices by using super crowded mass transportation with such hurry. This mess makes the young Japanese forget how to live a peaceful life with other people. These reasons cause the process of urban reading to create new architectural program that will encourage Japanese people to get back in touch with the past in positive way and to chill themselves out before going to offices.
The recall is presented through spaces with variety of materials such as raw concrete and bark glass. The tighten space, its silence penetrating in complicated context, and the light at the end of the space help enlighten people who enter it.