2014 Publication Editor: Yarinda Bunnag Graphic Design: The Noncitizen
This studio is about mining. Historically, culturally, and ecologically, mining is considered one of most brutal endeavours man has ever pursued. The inhospitable environments – the harsh surrounds of rocks, the subterranean darkness, the agitated ground – in addition to the life-threatening exposure to toxic chemicals and explosive machineries make mining one of the most […]
Hat Yai, Thailand 2014 In collaboration with Hypothesis 30
To say that the city is overflowing with people is an understatement. The population is rising exponentially as the government incentivizes procreation, the formerly sprawling metro-area has been reigned in, and the last few farmers are replaced by automated machines and relocated to The City. Only the oldest members of the population can recall the […]
This project introduced the students to the notions of “ground” and “topography” through the challenge of designing a one to one single minigolf hole followed by a 9 hole minigolf course. INDA First Year Design Studio, 2013, 2014
Berlin is a city that is rife with conflicts from the scars on the surfaces of its museums and monuments to the voids it bears in the heart of its urban landscape. Historically, Berlin has been witness and host to some of the most significant socio-political conflicts in the modern world. The architectures of the […]
An Experimental Study of Extreme Urban Density http://dencity-studio.blogspot.com/ Near the end of the last decade, almost all branches of the statistically inclined international acronym organizations, like the United Nation’s (UN) World Health Organization (WHO) or UN Population Fund (UNFPA) announced that there were more people living in urban areas than rural areas for the first […]
Yarinda Bunnag is an architect, actor, and musician. Bunnag currently works as the Year Four Coordinator and the Abroad Program Coordinator at Chulalongkorn University, International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) in Bangkok. She received a Master in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. During […]
This studio launched a simultaneous inquiry into the notion of obsolescence in architecture and the “form” of the museum in contemporary culture. The issue of obsolescence is vast, and was constrained by framing our research in contextual studies of abandon and ruin in Bangkok – of which hundreds of examples remain from the 1997 Asian […]
The primary goal of the Design Experimentation Workshop on Manipulating Fabric was to expose and familiarize students with fabric as a material for design. The workshop began with two preliminary exercises meant to introduce students to the properties of fabric – rupture and attachment. These were executed in an intuitive fashion: where students literally tampered […]
How can we critically and optimistically design for the future of our practice? What about the future of architecture education? What should the architecture school of the future look like, how should it function, and how should it address sociocultural realities? A school of architecture is a special type of building and, perhaps one of […]
Since the Enlightenment, travel has been an integral part of the journey to become an architect. Simply put, if buildings don’t come to you, you have to go to them. In the summer of 2010, twenty four students from Chulalongkorn University’s INDA program traveled to Berlin to embark on six weeks of such a conditioning. As the first time in […]
Fall 2011 / End(eavor’s) Game Studio (Wes Jones) In collaboration with Mark Rukamathu Recipient of the James Templeton Kelley Prize 2012 Honorable Mention for the Fairy Tales Architecture Competition 2014
Traces and Changes in Landscape at Montaudran, Toulouse Spring 2011 / Landscape Morphology Studio (Philippe Coignet)
Berlin is a city that is rife with conflicts from the scars on the surfaces of its museums and monuments to the voids it bears in the heart of its urban landscape. Historically, Berlin has been witness and host to some of the most significant socio-political conflicts in the modern world. The architectures of the […]
Trying to overcome the inherent genericity of a residential cell in a typical high-rise multiple unit condominium, our team studied the potential of randomizing the room layouts as well as their exterior facades in order to individualize the units to better suit the residents’ variety of lifestyles and to increase the sense of personal ownership. […]
Fall 2010 / Performative Wood Studio (Achim Menges) In collaboration with Aaron Goldstein, Marcin Mejsak, Paul Merrill
Since the Enlightenment, travel has been an integral part of the journey to become an architect. Simply put, if buildings don’t come to you, you have to go to them. In the summer of 2010, twenty-four students from Chulalongkorn University’s INDA program traveled to Berlin to embark on six weeks of such a conditioning. As […]
The project takes advantage of the site’s existing pine trees. We dissected the house’s various programs into separate, smaller units and distributed them amongst the lush landscape, using the trees as natural visual barriers. It was our primary objective not to cut any existing trees and thus the plan of the project was directly driven […]
Device for recording the movement of ‘drinking’ by Nat Natchayangkul and Wuttiphon Rattanajitdamrong To produce a one to one map of a specific human interaction with a given “environment”. The project is less interested in the representation of the actual human form or the actual environment, and more focused on the development of a system […]
The existing boulders give the site its most unique feature. We nestle our project in between the giant rocks and capture one at the center of it. The house is divided into two parts – private bedroom area and public living and dining area. Between the two zones, there is a large covered outdoor deck […]
The project initially attempted to create a continuous topography on which the audience can experience the exhibition in a cyclical manner, similar to that of a race circuit. A form, similar to a figure-8, was introduced. However, due to many budget and site constraints, the original topography was partly converted into a roof structure to […]
A single family house comprises of a series of parallel stone walls dividing the space into different zones. The unidirectionality of the walls creates uninterrupted public space as well as shielding off the views from the main road. The house only looks out to the front and back gardens, renders extreme privacy for the inhabitants. […]
We were approached by Paul Smith to produce an ‘interior space’ installation piece for an exhibition/fashion show in Bangkok. The theme of the installation given to us was : ‘Inspired by Paul Smith’. The only thing that we knew, at the time, about Paul Smith is that the company’s logo was composed of stripes, or […]
Personal Musical and Dramatic Works Friends Will Patera Carson Chan Program e.V. Roberto Requejo Wanderlister Asia Mark Rukamathu Patchara Ornnicha Architects Carl Fredrik Valdemar Hellberg Affiliations Chulalongkorn University, International Program in Design and Architecture INDA Berlin Cornell Architecture Harvard Graduate School of Design Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited