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ISSUE <strong>02</strong>.2014<br />
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THE ARCHITECTURAL JOURNAL<br />
OF THE ASSOCIATION OF<br />
SIAMESE ARCHITECTS<br />
UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE<br />
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THEMES<br />
16 Architect’14 : Introduction<br />
36 Chairman of Architect Expo<br />
2014 - 18|80 : Eighteen Eighty<br />
42 <strong>ASA</strong> 80 Th Anniversary of The<br />
Association of Siamese<br />
Architects + The Architecture<br />
Chronology<br />
46 Architect Architect<br />
48 <strong>ASA</strong> Change<br />
50 Experimental Design Competition<br />
52 <strong>ASA</strong> Sketch<br />
54 Architect’14 Graphic Design<br />
56 Thai Vernacular Architecture<br />
Photography<br />
58 Art Competition<br />
60 Why Do We Study Architecture?<br />
62 <strong>ASA</strong> Student Workshop<br />
64 <strong>ASA</strong> Forum<br />
72 <strong>ASA</strong> Talkative<br />
76 Architectural Conservation<br />
Projects<br />
80 <strong>ASA</strong> Awards 2014<br />
84 Handy Home<br />
86 <strong>ASA</strong> Can Community Act Network<br />
64<br />
6 <strong>ASA</strong> CONTENTS
SECTIONS<br />
94<br />
CONVERSATION<br />
90 The President of the 80 Years<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> Committee<br />
WORKS<br />
IN PROGRESS<br />
94 Embassy Design Territory Head<br />
Office<br />
98 X2 Kamala<br />
ASEAN<br />
1<strong>02</strong> The Vibrant Neighborhood<br />
of Bangsar<br />
PROFESSIONAL<br />
110 To Green or not to Green<br />
120 <strong>ASA</strong> CARTOON<br />
1<strong>02</strong><br />
8 <strong>ASA</strong> CONTENTS
FOREWORD<br />
ADVISORS<br />
SMITH OBAYAWAT<br />
PONGKWAN LASSUS<br />
TONKAO PANIN<br />
ANEK THONGPIYAPOOM<br />
M.L.PIYALADA THAVEEPRUNGSRIPORN<br />
WIRAT PANTAPATKUL<br />
MAADDI THUNGPANICH<br />
MONGKON PONGANUTREE<br />
EDITOR IN CHIEF<br />
SUPITCHA TOVIVICH<br />
CONTRIBUTORS<br />
AROON PURITAT<br />
ATCH SRESHTHAPUTRA<br />
NATTAWUT USAVAGOVITWONG<br />
SAWINYA CHAVANICH<br />
SORAVIS NA NAGARA<br />
SUPITCHA TOVIVICH<br />
WARUT DUANGKAEWKART<br />
SPECIAL THANKS TO<br />
BUNDIT PRADUBSUK<br />
CHAKKRIT METCHANUN<br />
JANADHIP MANICHSIN<br />
NATTAWUT USAVAGOVITWONG<br />
PICHATE SOVITTAY<strong>ASA</strong>KUL<br />
PONGKWAN LASSUS<br />
PRAMIKA KAEWSENA<br />
RACHAPORN CHOOCHUEY<br />
SUPHAT BUNYARITTIKIT<br />
SONGPORN SAISUWAN<br />
SORAVIS NA NAGARA<br />
SURASEKK YUTHIWAT<br />
THANIT KITTIAMPON<br />
TAWAN WONGSAWAN<br />
TORTRAKUL NISAWATTHANANUN<br />
VORAPOJ TACHAUMNUEYSUK<br />
WIRAT PANTAPATKUL<br />
ENGLISH TRANSLATOR<br />
TANAKANYA CHANGCHAITUM<br />
GRAPHIC DESIGNERS<br />
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’<strong>57</strong> Theme 18|80 <br />
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The time has come, the time for Architect’14, with the theme 18|80. This year is<br />
special because it is <strong>ASA</strong>’s 80-year celebration of the association’s founding. Activities<br />
include the association’s historical overview and an in depth look at the story of<br />
the profession – the architect. As always, the aim is to communicate and illustrate<br />
the role and responsibilities of an architect as well as provide a platform for the<br />
exchange of ideas between architects working in the field. This issue of <strong>ASA</strong><br />
<strong>Journal</strong> will briefly explain the overall stories and activities of Architect’14. For the<br />
full version, you should come! See and take in these stories as they play out with<br />
your eyes during the real exhibition that will surely be denser and richer in content<br />
than this issue could aspire to. That said, apart from the theme that explains the<br />
concepts, objectives and activities of Architect’14, there are many other interesting<br />
articles here such as ‘To Green or Not to Green’ in the Professional column by<br />
Assistant Prof. Dr. Atch Srechtaputra, Vice president. With several years of experience,<br />
the writer himself intends to gather and relay all the problems he personally<br />
encountered during the design, construction and analytical process that goes into<br />
green building reminding us to prepare the architect to take on these issues –with<br />
plenty to discuss and consider, the second part of this article will be published in<br />
the next issue. Lastly but not least, the Asean column features an article by<br />
Mr. Aroon Puritat on Bangsar in Kuala Lumpur, a neighborhood where architects,<br />
landscape designers, graphic designers and their creative works have had a great<br />
chance to participate in the urban development; interesting and inspiring, this one<br />
leaves us looking ahead.<br />
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MESSAGE<br />
FROM<br />
THE PRESIDENT<br />
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE<br />
THE ASSOCIATION OF<br />
SIAMESE ARCHITECTS<br />
UNDER ROYAL PATRONAGE<br />
2012—2014<br />
CONSULTANTS<br />
ADMIRAL THANIT KITTIAMPON<br />
SINN PHONGHANYUDH<br />
SUPIN RIANSRIVILAI<br />
WINYOU WANICHSIRIROJ<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
SMITH OBAYAWAT<br />
VICE PRESIDENT<br />
POL.LT.COL.BUNDIT PRADABSOOK, PH.D.<br />
SONGPORN SAISUWAN<br />
KITTI SOONTHORNMANOKUL<br />
PONGKWAN LASSUS<br />
SUNANTAPAT CHALERMPANTH<br />
WG.CDR.ADISORN BUNKHACHAI<br />
PONCHAI SAE-SIN<br />
PEERAYUDH CHAROENPOL<br />
VITTVAT CHAROENPONG<br />
ASST.PROF.<br />
ATCH SRESHTHAPUTRA<br />
ASSOC.PROF.TONKAO PANIN, PH.D.<br />
SECRETARY GENERAL<br />
ANEK THONGPIYAPOOM<br />
HONORARY REGISTRAR<br />
POL.LT.COL. SAKARIN KHIEWSEN<br />
HONORARY TREASURER<br />
KITTIPONG RUNGRUANGSARN<br />
SOCIAL EVENT DIRECTOR<br />
ASST.PROF. M.L.PIYALADA<br />
THAVEEPRUNGSRIPORN, PH.D.<br />
PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR<br />
WIRAT PANTAPATKUL<br />
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE<br />
ASST.PROF. KRAITHONG<br />
CHOTIVUTPATTANA<br />
SORAVIS NA NAGARA<br />
VASU POSHYANANDANA, PH.D.<br />
NITIS STHAPITANONDA<br />
NARONGWIT AREEMIT, PH.D.<br />
There are certain points in our career as an architect when we question<br />
ourselves or are questioned by the society about our contribution toward the<br />
development of this country. How much do we architects become a part of the<br />
solution to social issues, where and how do we position ourselves in order for the<br />
society to better understand who we are and what we do? How can our knowledge<br />
be beneficial for the development of the society?<br />
We believe that the profession of an architect is the profession of a creator.<br />
We learn and are educated to think and analyze systematically, to come up with<br />
solutions and propose the most suitable conclusions. Compared to other professions,<br />
we should be the ones who have a better understanding of the environment and<br />
have the knowledge to handle physical and geographical conditions of architecture,<br />
be it empty spaces, community, locality or urbanity. But in reality, the chance for<br />
architects to be a part of the plans and proposals that will be utilized for the<br />
development of this country is almost improbable. Our opinions and submissions<br />
often end with comments like ‘interesting and rational enough but…’ or ‘we thank<br />
you for your participation…’, but in the end, all decisions seem to be falling in the<br />
hands of politicians.<br />
Perhaps it is because the ratio of architects per head of the population in this<br />
country is 1/6000, or perhaps we have been making our living amongst a niche<br />
group of real-estate developers, governmental and private organizations or wealthy<br />
individuals, and after all this time, we still remain out of reach for the public. While<br />
our works have highly impacted the urban environment and geography where<br />
people live their lives, we are inaccessible. Mistakes or disasters that have happened<br />
to cities and towns, be it urban or rural communities, are all caused by either the<br />
presence or absence of our professional participation.<br />
We have not only started asking this question now because this year marks the<br />
80 th anniversary of our association, but let’s not forget that this Association of<br />
Siamese Architects of ours has existed in the society for almost as long as the first<br />
codified constitution. We even took ‘Siam,’ our country’s old name, as a part of<br />
our identity. Throughout the 80 years of our history and where we are at at this<br />
moment in time, how far have we come, and to what extent are we acknowledged<br />
and accepted as a part of the development of this country? Undeniably, these are<br />
important questions with no definite answers to be given…<br />
SMITH OBAYAWAT<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> PRESIDENT 2012-2014<br />
14 <strong>ASA</strong> EDITORIAL
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The Association of Siamese Architects under Royal<br />
Patronage (<strong>ASA</strong>) firstly took place to be founded on<br />
18 th April, 80 years ago. This year as it’s the 80 th<br />
Anniversary, that the theme name is depicted such<br />
date and time. Activities and Exhibitions for<br />
Architects’14 will emphasize on acknowledging of<br />
Architects Professions, who are we? And what<br />
we do?<br />
FEATURING<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Forum 2014 with 6 renowned Keynote speakers<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> 80 th Anniversary of the Association of Siamese<br />
• Architects Exhibition showing history via interviews<br />
with past presidents and key persons.<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
• The Architecture Chronology Exhibiton<br />
• ARCHITECT ARCHITECT ? Exhibition to understand<br />
• Architect’s Profession<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Awards 2014 Annual Architecture of Excellence<br />
• Awards Exhibition<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> CHANGE with 4 featuring Architects working<br />
with 4 social organizations<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> CAN I Community Act Network: Seminars &<br />
Exhibitions<br />
- 4 Decades of Community Architects<br />
- Works of Community Architects<br />
- Community Design Workshop in Samutprakarn<br />
Exhibition among ‘Shma’ + ‘Architect Kidd’ +<br />
‘Sook Architects + Openspace’ and students<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Conservation<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Experimental Design on ‘80 Cubic Meter’<br />
• Why study architecture? Competition Exhibition<br />
from Participated Architectural Schools<br />
• ‘ARCHITECT’S LIFE’ ART COMPETETION<br />
ExhibitionThai Vernacular Architecture Photography<br />
Exhibition by Ajarn Pathom Puapansakul<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Chapters: Current Works Exhibition<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> ’s New Chiangmai Office Architectural<br />
Compettition<br />
• Architect’s Office Booth<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> 14 Graphic Design<br />
• Handy Home<br />
• Makkasam Development<br />
• Exhibition from many <strong>ASA</strong> Affiliated organizations<br />
• The 28 th Asean Largest Building Technology<br />
Exposition<br />
SEMINAR<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Talkative ‘Theory, Aesthetics, Secrets, Ways<br />
of Tonsilp Studio by Mr. Chatree Ladalilitsakul’,<br />
‘Future of the Architects By Dr. Pon Virulrak’<br />
Design Activism: Discussion with latest Architect<br />
National Artist ‘Teerapol Niyom’ Lecture & Musical<br />
Performance on ‘Northern Architecture’ by Assoc.<br />
Professor Wiwat Tameeyabhandu<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> VERNADOC ‘VERNADOC Around the World’<br />
• ADEQUATE HOUSE<br />
• EIA on aesthetic effects of development<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Conservation Seminars<br />
ACTIVITIES<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Sketch & Workshop with CH’NG KIAH KIEAN<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Architectural Design Student Workshop ‘<strong>57</strong><br />
• Home Clinic<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Club<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Shop<br />
• <strong>ASA</strong> Book Shops<br />
• Student’s Activities on Stage<br />
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ORGANIZING<br />
COMMITTEE<br />
CHAIRMAN<br />
Soravis na Nagara<br />
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VICE CHAIRMAN<br />
Asst.Prof. Ruengsak Palikup<br />
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HONORARY TREASURER<br />
Kittipong Rungruangsarn<br />
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PUBLIC RELATIONS<br />
DIRECTOR<br />
Wirat Pantapatkul<br />
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COMMITTEE<br />
Pongkwan Lassus<br />
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Asst.Prof.<br />
Kraithong Chotivutpattana<br />
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Chakkrit Metchanun<br />
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Asst.Prof. Suphat Bunyarittikit<br />
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Asst.Prof.<br />
Pichate Sovittayasakul<br />
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Asst.Prof.<br />
Rachaporn Choochuey, Ph.D.<br />
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Nattaya Chaiwanakupt<br />
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Tortrakul Nisawatthananun<br />
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Janadhip Manichsin<br />
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Nattawut Usavagovitwong,<br />
Ph.D.<br />
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Vorapoj Tachaumnueysuk<br />
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Tawan Wongsawan<br />
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Kasin Sornsri<br />
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Surasekk Yuthiwat<br />
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Weerawat Opachalermpan<br />
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Kittipat Prakarnrat<br />
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Pramika Kaewsena<br />
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Ratthapoom Wongpradu<br />
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<strong>ASA</strong> FORUM 2014<br />
Smith Obayawat<br />
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Tonkao Panin<br />
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Rachaporn Choochuey<br />
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Saithiwa Ramasoot<br />
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Supitcha Tovivich<br />
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Waricha Wongphyat<br />
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Tanakarn Mokkhasmita<br />
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Supasai Vongkulbhisal<br />
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Pitchaya Prasertwong<br />
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‘VERNADOC Around the World’ <br />
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Creating Sustainability: Baan Chaan, From<br />
Old Wisdom toward Future Living Solar<br />
Decathlon Europe 2014 Competition: From<br />
Thailand to Paris<br />
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(Solar Decathlon Europe 2014)<br />
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This lecture offers audience a fully integrated multidisciplinary<br />
framework, a set of innovative practical<br />
guidelines and decision tools and an understanding of<br />
current situation by learning from the past. It governs<br />
environmentally, economically and socially sustainable<br />
development of brownfield or flood potential sites,<br />
including green architectural development of Baan<br />
Chaan. It is the real student project competition to<br />
be designed and built in Paris and shipped back to Thailand.<br />
KMUTT student team has been selected as one<br />
of twenty teams around the world for this international<br />
competition taking place in Paris between June-July<br />
2014. Audience will learn how research has been transformed<br />
into design in an affordable, innovative and<br />
sustainable ways. Learning objectives and outcomes:<br />
- A broad understanding of the concepts and<br />
principles that govern the residential development<br />
including an overview of the strategies for integrating<br />
green practices and technologies into the processes<br />
- The ability to identify and assess the opportunities<br />
and barriers to the green development as well as tools,<br />
strategies and best practices<br />
- Analyze the essential characteristics that differentiate<br />
sustainable development from more traditional<br />
development<br />
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Design Activism<br />
Design Activism <br />
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ACTIVITY SCHEDULE<br />
APRIL 29 - MARCH 4, 2014 HALLENGER HALL & PHOENIX HALL, IMPACT MUANG THONG THANI, THAILAND<br />
DATE 10:00-11:00 11:00-12:00 12:00-13:00 13:00-14:00 14.00-15.00 15:00-16:00<br />
29 TUE SPECIAL<br />
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13:00-17:00<br />
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1 THU SPECIAL<br />
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09:30 . 13:30 -15:30<br />
Jupiter 4-7<br />
2 FRI 13:00 -15:00 Workshop 15:00 -16:30<br />
Experimental Design<br />
<strong>ASA</strong><br />
TALKATIVE<br />
JUPITER<br />
3 SAT 10:30 -12:00<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> Sketch ’ <strong>57</strong><br />
<strong>ASA</strong><br />
TALKATIVE<br />
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13:00 -15:30 <strong>ASA</strong> TALKATIVE<br />
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<strong>ASA</strong> Sketch <br />
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PHOENIX<br />
10:00 -11:30<br />
Toyo Ito & Associates,<br />
Architects, Japan<br />
Mr. Toyo Ito<br />
4 SUN 11:00 -12:00<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> Talkative<br />
…18 <br />
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13:00 -14:30<br />
Studio Pei-Zhu, China<br />
Mr. Pei Zhu<br />
15:00 -16:30<br />
Solid Objectives<br />
Idenburg Liu (SO-IL),<br />
USA<br />
Mr. Florian Idenburg<br />
& Ms. Jing Liu<br />
13:00 -16:00<br />
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PHOENIX<br />
10:00 -11:30<br />
Duangrit Bunnag Architect<br />
Limited (DBALP), Thailand<br />
Mr. Duangrit Bunnag<br />
13:00 -14:30<br />
Bevk Perović, Arhitekti, Slovenia<br />
Mr. Vasa J. Perovic<br />
15:00 -16:30<br />
TYIN Tegnestue<br />
Architects, Norway<br />
Mr. Yashar Hanstad<br />
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SORAVIS NA NAGARA<br />
CHAIRMAN OF<br />
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WHAT IS THE THEME OF THIS YEAR’S <strong>ASA</strong> FESTIVAL?<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> was founded in 1934 so this year is the<br />
association’s 80th birthday. We think it’s a good opportunity<br />
for a celebration and to tell everyone that we are<br />
now 80 years of age and going strong. The number<br />
18 is simply the date when the discussion about the<br />
establishment of <strong>ASA</strong> took place (18 th April 1934).<br />
At the time, most of the architects had graduated from<br />
schools abroad and the faculty of architecture hadn’t<br />
yet been established. We use the number as the<br />
theme and, although it might be a bit confusing at first,<br />
if you know the backstory, there is nothing complicated<br />
about it, really. We wanted something simple, and<br />
something that is easy to remember. We also wanted<br />
the contents of the exhibitions and activities to be<br />
more accessible. We have to admit that, even with our<br />
80 years of age, most people still don’t know much<br />
about the role and responsibilities of architects or the<br />
profession as a whole. So, the content in general will<br />
be geared towards providing the general public with<br />
this knowledge and a greater understanding. We hope<br />
that the use of simple numbers will be a way for us to<br />
feel more accessible and understandable to the public.<br />
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04 ’<strong>57</strong><br />
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WHAT MAKES THE ACTIVITIES AND EXHIBITIONS<br />
THIS YEAR DIFFERENT FROM LAST YEAR?<br />
We have main activities and exhibitions that are<br />
held every year, but the special activities we have for<br />
2014 is the association’s 80 years exhibition, where<br />
the history of <strong>ASA</strong> will be told through interviews of<br />
the former presidents and presidents of the working<br />
committee, so everyone will get to know more about<br />
us and our history. There is also an exhibition called ‘<br />
Architect, Architect,’ that introduces the public to the<br />
role of the architect, what we do and so on. It’s one of<br />
the main exhibitions of the festival. Last year, we had<br />
‘<strong>ASA</strong> Change’ where the volunteer architects gave people<br />
design and architectural advice, and we’re keeping that<br />
for this year, too. The people who come to the festival<br />
will be able to see what architects can do. We are also<br />
expecting to see some interesting exhibitions by the<br />
students under the topic ‘Why study Architecture?’.<br />
Hopefully, people will get to know us more through<br />
these activities. There is also an art competition under<br />
the topic ‘An architect’s life,’ which will feature works of<br />
art from different artistic medias such as photography<br />
and sculpture. Other activities include the regular ones<br />
that we do every year, like conservations, community<br />
projects, house doctors and <strong>ASA</strong> SKETCH that showcases<br />
some great hand-drawn works, which is a charm<br />
you rarely see today considering how everyone is<br />
using computers now. I think it will create a clearer<br />
understanding for people outside of the profession.<br />
We also have <strong>ASA</strong> FORUM, seminars and talks, all can<br />
be expected from 2014’s <strong>ASA</strong> festival.<br />
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WHAT WILL BE THIS YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS?<br />
If it’s for the general public, I think the ‘Architect,<br />
Architect’ exhibition can be considered a highlight.<br />
We’re thinking of making a short animated film that<br />
tells the story of what architects actually do, and the<br />
film could be used on social media sites where people<br />
can watch and share it in the future as well. The work<br />
can be shown to the general public, or even clients,<br />
in order to provide a better understanding of the<br />
profession. I suppose the highlight for the fellow<br />
architects will be the <strong>ASA</strong> Forum, because this year<br />
we have Mr. Toyo Ito and Doungrit Bunnak as the key<br />
speakers. I think everyone in the profession knows<br />
these two great architects and their works really well.<br />
It’s definitely one of the most exciting highlights.<br />
HOW IS THE DESIGN OF THE ASSOCIATION’S<br />
EXHIBITION SPACE TURNING OUT?<br />
We had invited a number of companies to compete<br />
in a pitching competition for both the design and<br />
construction of the space. There were 5-6 companies<br />
pitching for the project and we had a committee who<br />
chose the most suitable one, based on concept,<br />
budget and practicality. We finally came down to<br />
Rightman, who proposed a concept about the origin of<br />
the architectural profession revolving around ideas and<br />
drawing skills. The concept they have for this project<br />
is ‘lines,’ and they will be using ‘ropes’ to decorate the<br />
5,000-square meter area inside the exhibition hall and<br />
the 2,000-square meter space outside the hall. They’re<br />
working on the design at the moment, so we have our<br />
fingers crossed that everything will turn out as<br />
beautifully as the presented perspective images.<br />
WHAT IS THE CONCEPT FOR THE GRAPHIC AND<br />
KEY VISUAL WORKS OF THE FESTIVAL?<br />
We also organized a pitching competition for the<br />
graphic work that will be used for the festival and we<br />
had several reputable graphic firms send us proposals.<br />
Basically, the decision was made based on a rationale<br />
of how the work would be used and whether it could<br />
answer to the functional and aesthetic requirements.<br />
Considering all the aforementioned reasons, the<br />
design by Practical was found to be the most suitable.<br />
They used cartoon characters to represent different<br />
kinds of activities such as sitting, walking, showering,<br />
eating, talking, laying around, etc. The characters are<br />
bordered by dashed lines, implying how we are all<br />
surrounded by architectural creations designed by<br />
architects, and how these creations and human beings<br />
are related. We really hope that the work can convey<br />
the idea that what architects have done and are doing<br />
is actually all around you. The work gives a clear and<br />
friendly message with a vibrant use of colors. The<br />
18l80 logo is similar to a floor plan number but with a<br />
thicker layer. We think that the design of the key visual<br />
could be further used and developed as well.<br />
HOW DO YOU FEEL BEING THIS YEAR’S CHAIR-<br />
MAN OF THE WORKING COMMITTEE?<br />
I was a member of the association’s committee<br />
for several years and I have been helping out the<br />
association in whatever way I can. I have to tell you<br />
that this job is voluntary, similar to when you were<br />
a college student and you worked for the students’<br />
union, making books, organizing activities. In my opinion,<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> is like that. The content and the purpose we’re<br />
dealing with may be bigger in terms of scale. Working<br />
as a chairman, I think it will be a great experience for me.<br />
I have gotten to know a lot more people, and contacted<br />
some of the people I know to be the members of the<br />
committee. It feels great because everyone is willing<br />
to help out. At the moment I’m very happy with the<br />
way things are going, even though I don’t really know<br />
yet how the whole thing will turn out.<br />
WHAT ARE THE OBSTACLES SO FAR?<br />
There are some, naturally, but I’m not serious<br />
about it. People who are helping out are volunteers so<br />
if things don’t get done on time, I really can’t blame<br />
them. I also couldn’t get everything done on schedule,<br />
and there are many things I really don’t know how to<br />
do. So nothing is really a big issue to me. It’s not like<br />
your day job where you get paid. Everyone is helping<br />
because they want to. The problem I have is probably<br />
a lack of certain skills, but then again, it’s difficult for<br />
someone to know or be good at everything. That’s why<br />
we work together as a team. Everyone helps each<br />
other. I don’t feel that we have any obstacles.<br />
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY TO THE PEOPLE<br />
WHO ARE COMING TO THE FESTIVAL, BOTH THE<br />
GENERAL PUBLIC AND THE ARCHITECTS?<br />
I want the members of the Association to come.<br />
Not because I’m the chairman this year or anything,<br />
but because it’s the association’s biggest event of the<br />
year. It’s the time of year that we all get to meet. You<br />
can come check out new materials and innovations,<br />
or participate in the forums and seminars. I feel that<br />
this is our community, and if you don’t come and let<br />
yourself be a part of it, then you’re just an architect<br />
who does your job but you don’t get to expand your<br />
connections. If you come, you will be able to know the<br />
fellows who are in the same profession as you, be it<br />
your juniors, seniors or fellows who come from different<br />
institutes or companies. For the general public, I really<br />
want people to come and see us. We’re hosting the<br />
country’s biggest architectural and constructional<br />
exposition, so whether you’re planning to build a<br />
house, or an apartment, this is the place where you<br />
can see the latest products and innovations. We have<br />
great activities and exhibitions with interesting content<br />
that can offer everyone a wide range of information<br />
and knowledge. It’s something you don’t want to miss<br />
out on.<br />
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JANADHIP MANICHSIN<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> 80 TH<br />
ANNIVERSARY OF<br />
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The theme of <strong>ASA</strong> ’<strong>57</strong> is different from previous<br />
years, mainly because it is being held as part of <strong>ASA</strong>’s<br />
80-year celebration of the founding of the association<br />
in 1934. In addition to the exhibitions and activities that<br />
will be held in the 75,000 square meter space, there<br />
will also be special booths and exhibitions organized<br />
especially for the association’s 80 th anniversary.<br />
Chanathip Manijsilpa, a member of the working committee<br />
of <strong>ASA</strong> ’<strong>57</strong> and the supervisor of the 80 Years<br />
of Association of Siamese Architects under Royal<br />
Patronage exhibition, shared some interesting updates<br />
with us. “The main booth features a broad view of<br />
the association since the time it was first established.<br />
The content is presented chronologically, depicting<br />
significant changes and developments for <strong>ASA</strong> in every<br />
decade. Included are interviews of former presidents<br />
and the association’s historical overview, as well as the<br />
future tendency. Through this exhibition, people will be<br />
able to know more about who we are and what we do.”<br />
The presentational style chosen for this exhibition<br />
is chronological storytelling, illustrating the association’s<br />
evolving history from past to present. “We want to<br />
show what we went through before we arrived at<br />
where we are today. We will feature interview clips<br />
with the former presidents of the association providing<br />
their interesting insights, including a conversation we<br />
had with Intira Satasuk, who served as the former<br />
manager of the association for several terms.” Aside<br />
from the information about <strong>ASA</strong>’s history, viewers will<br />
also be able to learn more about the points of view<br />
and intentions of architects, since it is a profession<br />
that has been a part of Thai society for a considerable<br />
period of time. The exhibition is intended to reflect<br />
the development of Thailand’s architectural profession<br />
and community in parallel with the country’s changing<br />
course of history.<br />
“Although this year marks the association’s 80th<br />
anniversary, and despite the fact that the festival has<br />
been held 27 times previously, we have to admit that<br />
the profession of an architect is one that the general<br />
public still knows very little about. Most people don’t<br />
know what we really do or what our role in the society<br />
really is. The most challenging thing about organizing<br />
this exhibition is how we can motivate the public to<br />
want to learn and understand more about the role that<br />
architects play in society today.”<br />
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Organized in parallel with the 80 Years of Association<br />
of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage exhibition,<br />
The Architecture Chronology Exhibiton tells the story<br />
of the association from the very first day of its foundation<br />
and throughout the years of its operation. The Association<br />
of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage has<br />
organized the event to promote Thailand’s architectural<br />
profession since 1986 (2529 B.E.). The first <strong>ASA</strong> festival<br />
was put together under the name ‘Architect ’29,’ before<br />
it finally became the association’s annual event (with<br />
the only year that the event was absent being 1990).<br />
The year 2014 will mark the 28 th time that the event<br />
has been held.<br />
This year’s exhibition has Chanathip, a member of<br />
the working committee, serving as the supervisor.<br />
“We have never organized an exhibition with the content<br />
about the history of the festival before, and the information<br />
has never really been properly archived and<br />
exhibited. We are now in the process of data collection,<br />
gathering photographs and information about the festival<br />
over the past 80 years; what the themes were, etc.<br />
Looking back, we have found that the themes revolved<br />
around the country’s economic and social issues at the<br />
time that the event was being held. Water Brick was<br />
the theme for the year when there was a big flood, or<br />
last year’s Borderless, which proposed the concept<br />
of the absence of borders. We want to present each<br />
year’s concept, showing the viewers the similarities<br />
as well as the differences. We want to tell the public<br />
how we want to be acknowledged through this special<br />
exhibition held as a part of the 80th year celebration of<br />
<strong>ASA</strong>.”<br />
Throughout the previous 27 exhibitions, the <strong>ASA</strong><br />
festival has allowed us to see new aspects and possibilities.<br />
As a supervisor of the exhibition, Chanathip and<br />
the team have gathered some interesting information<br />
and observed certain distinctive details. “Each year,<br />
we can see how architects from different fields of<br />
studies came together. The central booth took up the<br />
largest space, and the people who opened the booths<br />
came from different architectural disciplines. Everyone<br />
exchanged ideas and bodies of knowledge. The most<br />
important thing for us is to strengthen these connections<br />
and enhance future developments to continue in the<br />
same direction.”<br />
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“The concept is to communicate in a manner<br />
that can help people to truly understand – What is<br />
an architect? What do they do? As well as aid them<br />
in understanding the importance of the role. Many<br />
people believe that architects are solely responsible for<br />
the design of buildings, but have no knowledge of the<br />
greater picture; they don’t understand what it is that<br />
architects really, truly do. Our exhibition aims to explain<br />
the role and its many multifaceted tasks in a manner<br />
that is fun and easy to understand. Using animation<br />
and infographics as language, we will tell the story of<br />
who an architect really is and what they do.”<br />
‘Architect Architect’ is an exhibition that provides<br />
general information to the people aiding them in understanding<br />
the working process of an architect. Beginning<br />
at the first step of planning and moving all the way<br />
through to the completion of a house design, they walk<br />
with the architects every step of the way learning what<br />
it is that they do and provide for users. Furthermore,<br />
details regarding the design and construction period<br />
which most are unfamiliar with will also be provided.<br />
1. Share ideas with architects about needs - living<br />
area, style, design concept.<br />
2. Site survey<br />
3. Design proposal<br />
4. Design process, drawing, model perspective<br />
5. Construction drawing<br />
6. Bidding<br />
7. Construction management<br />
8. Construction period<br />
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organizations and 4 architect and designer’ is a concept<br />
of <strong>ASA</strong> CHANGE in ARCHITECT’<strong>57</strong>. In this year <strong>ASA</strong><br />
CHANGE looking to change problem around. It’s more<br />
closely but wider about ‘House – Canal – Street - Tree’.<br />
Not only an architects and designers, this year there<br />
are organizations come to develop project together<br />
under concept of <strong>ASA</strong> CHANGE.<br />
House (house + victim) by Suriya Umpansiriratana<br />
(Walllasia) work together with D4D (Design for Disaster).<br />
Design house for disaster victim like flood.<br />
Canal (San + Sab) by Patama Roonrakwit with<br />
CASE (Community Architects for Shelter and Environment).<br />
Design waterfront pavilion and surrounding by<br />
recycle material.<br />
Street (intersection + kind) by Kochkorn Wora-akhom<br />
with Sor.Sor.Sor (Thai Health Promotion Foundation).<br />
Design kind intersection like waste space under highway.<br />
Develop those spaces to be public park, relaxing<br />
space.<br />
Tree (park + fun) by Ratiwat Suwannatrai and<br />
Wannaporn Suwannatrai (Openbox Architects) work<br />
together with Big Tree for conserve big tree and tree<br />
on predestine way and create relationship between<br />
community and nature.<br />
“Purpose of <strong>ASA</strong> CHANGE is communicate to<br />
people to see that we can change to make better surrounding.<br />
In term of architect we want to make profit<br />
design for society. When people see this, maybe they<br />
can think forward for themself.” Tawan Wongsawan<br />
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Hlne Grialou and<br />
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03 Borderless Competition<br />
2 ‘Nomad in No<br />
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“We consider contemporary situations where<br />
communication between various sources is accessible<br />
and always increasing as well as disasters, which,<br />
unfortunately, have also been increasing around the<br />
world including, in just the last few years, countless<br />
floods, storms, snowstorms, and earthquakes.“<br />
Entries for the Experimental Design Competition<br />
can take on any form, such as a living space or other<br />
space, but should be representative of a design that<br />
would be drawn upon during a time of disaster.<br />
In order to create works on a scale that is familiar to<br />
the majority, we have determined that the design must<br />
fit within an 80-meter cube. The 80-meter space<br />
represents the minimal living area that is often utilized by<br />
many, such as a typical condominium space. Designers<br />
can determine if they wish to design the work to fit<br />
within a cube or design the work in a fashion that is 1x 80<br />
meters, as long as the overall focus lies in improving<br />
quality of life and creating a design for disaster.<br />
The competition is open to everyone and the design<br />
can be created with any location on earth in mind, but<br />
must be connected to an idea of life. This year’s competition<br />
includes two steps; first the exceptional works<br />
will be selected and secondly they will be presented at<br />
the ARCHTIECT ’<strong>57</strong> event.<br />
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THEME <strong>ASA</strong> 51
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where the seminar and sketch contest were met<br />
with much enthusiasm and praise prompting the <strong>ASA</strong><br />
SKETCH exhibition to be officially launched for inclusion<br />
in the exhibition this year.<br />
“Sketches help us to imagine and understand; the<br />
process answers questions regarding what we need to<br />
design and communicates easily. Sketching is therefore<br />
a very important and essential skill, but one that is<br />
often overlooked by students nowadays. Many fear<br />
that they may not be able to create a beautiful sketch,<br />
but fail to understand that creating a beautiful drawing<br />
with pleasing colors and realistic depictions is far from<br />
the point of the process. All a sketch truly needs is<br />
accurate proportions, adequate shading and shadow<br />
that can allow the image to guide the mind and thought<br />
process through its overall form. If a sketch can communicate<br />
a concept, it has everything it needs.”<br />
The exhibition will be separated into two sections,<br />
one of which will house an exhibition of sketches by<br />
architects and artists, and another of which will serve<br />
as an event zone for workshops, including the sketch<br />
contest and a sketch battle featuring artist ‘KK’ (Ch’ng<br />
Kiah Kiean) of Malaysia.<br />
“He is an architect but also just loves to draw. His<br />
works are amazing in regards to their proportion, scale,<br />
shading and shadows. This year, KK will discuss his<br />
techniques and, for the highlight of the <strong>ASA</strong> SKETCH<br />
event, take the ring in a sketch battle with Hong Tae<br />
(Thai artist) along a 5 meter long wall.”<br />
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From the graphic design competition organized<br />
by The Association of Siamese Architects under the<br />
concept ‘eighteen:eighty,’ the <strong>ASA</strong> committee has<br />
chosen ‘Practical Design Studio’ to design the graphics<br />
for ARCHITECT’14.<br />
“We try to connect architects closely with the<br />
daily lives of people. We want them to not only be<br />
aware of architects, but also help them to understand<br />
these connections. So, we firstly focused on the people<br />
themselves and how they connect with architects.<br />
We used the concept of people and daily life to<br />
communicate information and created images in the<br />
style of cartoon graphics. We wanted to simplify and<br />
clearly present the identities of various people so<br />
that everyone could easily connect with ideas of who<br />
these images represent. We combined these pictorial<br />
personalities with activities to tell the stories of daily<br />
life such as eating, traveling or showering. All of these<br />
stories can help us to understand how people connect<br />
with architects every day.”<br />
“There is also one more element that we brought<br />
together into the combination. In every activity that<br />
people partake in, there is this other element that they<br />
often don’t take note of, they don’t notice the element<br />
of ‘space.’ Spaces are designed by architects; they create<br />
the way these spaces look and how they feel. We<br />
created another graphic set and overlaid it on top to<br />
help guide the viewer and bring attention to that idea of<br />
space. Through these connections, they begin to see<br />
how the architect is connected to their daily lives.”<br />
ARCHITECT’14 will feature <strong>ASA</strong> 14 Graphic<br />
Design exhibition where Practical studio will share<br />
the research and design process that led to the final<br />
outcome of their design. This look behind the scenes<br />
at the steps taken to reach the final design will surely<br />
benefit students of design and interested members of<br />
the general public alike.<br />
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THEME <strong>ASA</strong> 55
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Photo exhibition by Pathom Puapansakul had<br />
begun from Arsom Silp Institute of the Art was making<br />
a book about Lanna architecture. It’s written by Wiwat<br />
Temiyapan and use all photograph from Pathom<br />
Puapansakul. There is making and will publishing in<br />
ARCHITECT’<strong>57</strong>.<br />
“That work had been shot since we walk for<br />
research together, Me with Ajarn.Jiw and Ajarn.Anuwit<br />
Charoensupakul. We had started from 40 years ago<br />
in year 1968 that was a round Thailand research trip.<br />
But in this time will be focus on Lanna Architecture.”<br />
Pathom Puapansakul tall about source of photograph<br />
“Photograph is creating thinking system. I think<br />
there is a human behavior that taking a space. It’s<br />
meaning of space that define from different community<br />
such as cave, tree or use stone and put on rectangular<br />
shape on floor to define temple.” Photograph becomes<br />
a tool to tell about architecture or lifestyle which changed<br />
and Pathom’s photo are telling story of 30-40 years ago<br />
in term of urban architecture religion and lifestyle.<br />
Apart from photo exhibition that show along this<br />
event, there information are connect to explore lanna<br />
architecture by photograph in ‘Music Thinking and<br />
Lanna Architecture’ seminar by Wiwat Temiyapan in 3<br />
May.<br />
“In this seminar we will speak with Ajran Jiw<br />
under the topic of Lanna architecture as images from<br />
Pahom Phuphansakun, architectural and landscape<br />
photographs depicting a long lost Lanna that cannot be<br />
found at present, illustrate the dialog. We will discuss<br />
how to adapt knowledge captured in the photographs<br />
for use today. Secondly, a Lanna music session will<br />
accompany the seminar, offering a means of telling<br />
the story from another perspective and providing the<br />
architects and those in attendance with a new source<br />
of inspiration for the imagination and future designs.”<br />
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WIRAT PANTAPATKUL<br />
ART COMPETITION<br />
58 <strong>ASA</strong> THEME
The theme 18 | 80 of Exhibition 18 is drawn from<br />
the founding date of ‘The Association of Siamese<br />
Architects Under Royal Patronage’ who will be<br />
celebrating their 80th anniversary this year. The main<br />
idea is to address the issue that many members of the<br />
general public in Thailand are not familiar with the work<br />
that architects do, nor do they understand the scope<br />
of their role. Therefore, this year’s exhibition aims<br />
to increase clarity through a focus on the architect’s<br />
character and role.<br />
Normally, the architect’s work does not end with<br />
a picture of perspective - models, drawings and many<br />
other forms of media must be drawn upon in order to<br />
effectively communicate an idea. Stemming further<br />
from last year’s photography competition, this year’s<br />
exhibition will welcome more forms of art allowing for<br />
the diverse character of the architect to be explored<br />
from a wider perspective.<br />
It could feature photos from the working process,<br />
drawings that never ended up being used or even<br />
models broken by clients. We will take on a humorous<br />
approach and it will be fun. Normally, when people<br />
come to see your work, they are confronted with shade<br />
and shadow, and compositions referencing the golden<br />
section; this exhibition employs a different language<br />
that most can understand. We use works of art to<br />
explain who we are in an enjoyable, fun and informative<br />
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WHY DO WE STUDY<br />
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Last year’s exhibition ‘<strong>ASA</strong> 101,’ was structured<br />
around a desire to create better designs for everyday<br />
life at a low monetary cost, developing creative works<br />
under the requirement that their cost of creation could<br />
not exceed 101 baht. This year, architecture students<br />
from a variety of universities will contribute to an<br />
exhibition at ARCHITECT ’<strong>57</strong> under the topic, ‘Why do<br />
we study architecture?’ The topic follows the overall<br />
theme of the event aimed at communicating the roles<br />
and goals of architects to the general public.<br />
Through the creation of video clips and the exhibition,<br />
student’s consider the question, ‘Why do we<br />
study architecture?’ Taking two approaches, some<br />
student works discuss how architecture can be used to<br />
solve social problems, while others developed dialogs<br />
describing what they had learned and taken away from<br />
their own academic architectural programs. The video<br />
works are also meant to complement the exhibition.<br />
32 universities will join in the event and, as we saw<br />
last year, several interesting works are sure to emerge<br />
from the exhibition. This year, the ARCHITECT ’<strong>57</strong> committee<br />
looks forward to another successful experience<br />
leading to ample positive feedback, benefit and interest<br />
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been operating continuously since 2546(2003) to the<br />
present year and aims to discover designs and aspects<br />
that are appropriate for developing community areas<br />
to support sustainable education, a task that draws<br />
upon the cooperation of academics and community<br />
representatives as well.<br />
In 25<strong>57</strong> (2014), the workshop project will commemorate<br />
12 years of operations, and, as for this year,<br />
plans to recruit 75 people, including a group of students<br />
and professors from 30 architectural institutions around<br />
the country, to design models for real operations. By<br />
adapting knowledge from The Royal Sciences, the prototype<br />
models can be made to develop areas of forests<br />
that are the origin of water sources. The workshop will<br />
further draw upon the additional support of The Ton<br />
Nam Naan Community, Amphur Thawangpha, Naan<br />
Province and the Sufficiency Economy Institution and<br />
Foundation for Natural Agriculture.<br />
The Workshop this year will be quite different from<br />
previous ones, as it involves working in new areas.<br />
Previously, the workshop was carried out in areas that<br />
were able to support students and the professors, a<br />
group that included only some 100 people all together.<br />
Therefore, wherever the group’s work took them, they<br />
would find adequate and complete public utilities,<br />
including toilets, rest areas (residences), and also buildings<br />
that were available to support their needs and the<br />
work required to complete their architectural projects.<br />
This year, however, is special - as they will be traveling<br />
to locations where construction has just begun, and<br />
housing will be provided by the villagers themselves –<br />
the workshop participants will cook with them, assist<br />
them in their work or chores and may have to sleep in<br />
tents or do whatever is needed to carry out their<br />
practice. These accommodations are not however<br />
unfitting, as the work that will be done includes the<br />
creation of a design for a Center for Natural Agriculture,<br />
a process that also aims to teach self-dependency<br />
and enable participants with the confidence needed<br />
to face any calamities that may occur in the future.<br />
By experiencing the real scenarios their projects are<br />
developed for, students become self-dependent, gain<br />
an in-depth understanding of the task at hand and are<br />
able to design according to the actual experiences they<br />
encountered. Assistant Professor Phichet Sowithsakul<br />
elaborated on the details of the project:<br />
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The entire 24 days that the project will be in<br />
operation will be divided into 2 parts –the first of which<br />
focuses on providing training for students to live selfdependently<br />
at the Natural Agricultural camp at Maab<br />
Er-ung, Amphur Baan Beung, Chonbori Province and<br />
later travel to the actual location where the work will<br />
be completed, that is to work with the villagers at the<br />
Ton Nam Naan Community, Amphur Thawang Pha,<br />
Naan Province for 15 days. In the second part of the<br />
workshop the students will create models/replicas and<br />
prepare their architectural project plates to be shown at<br />
the Architect Show <strong>57</strong>.<br />
“By taking all the students to study at Chonburi<br />
prior to actually designing, they will learn to be selfdependent<br />
and design according to the actual Thai<br />
society. Only after this practice can they then actually<br />
start working –if we take students to work or learn<br />
about design according to His Majesties principlesbefore<br />
they learn the basics of self-dependency, they<br />
run the risk of designing things that cannot actually<br />
be constructed in real life. After three days at Maab<br />
Er-ung, they will travel to Naan, where they will sleep,<br />
eat, design and basically do everything the process requires<br />
through the means of their own hands. As there<br />
is no electricity available, the designs have to made by<br />
hand and require various skills for completing them.”<br />
The main idea of holding the project in 25<strong>57</strong>(2014)<br />
is based on the concept of ‘eighteen eighty 18:80’ and<br />
conveys to society the importance of the role, duty<br />
and benefits of architects. Hence this viewpoint is<br />
used to carry out a project that results in the creation<br />
of a practical design responding to the role and duty of<br />
the architect as a whole, while harmonizing it within<br />
society and the present currents of change in life that<br />
utilize technology. With the integration of these factors,<br />
creativity will be added to the picture resulting in<br />
architectural works imbedded with depth and beauty.<br />
Furthermore, the project will allow one to look deeply<br />
into the Thai intellect, learn and consider the diversity<br />
within the nation and hence reach the essence of<br />
being Thai - in thought patterns, lifestyle, society and<br />
culture this can be accomplished by intermingling and<br />
staying with the people - sharing their lives is a process<br />
which allows for continuous learning, both in physical<br />
and creative aspects.<br />
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Urban Robot<br />
(URBOT) in Tokyo .. 1971 <br />
Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects ..<br />
1979 Toyo Ito -<br />
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Toyo Ito Sendai Mediatheque,<br />
Serpentine Pavilion Gallery, TOD’S Omotesando<br />
Building Tama Art University Library Toyo Ito<br />
The Pritzker<br />
Architecture Prize .. 2013 The Royal Gold<br />
Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects<br />
.. 2006 The Golden Lion for<br />
Lifetime Achievement The Venice Biennale<br />
.. 20<strong>02</strong><br />
Pei Zhu <br />
Studio Pei-Zhu .. 2005 <br />
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Studio Pei-Zhu<br />
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Studio<br />
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Cai Guo-Qiang Courtyard House Renovation<br />
‘Digital Beijing’ Olympics Control Center <br />
Venice Biennale Chinese Pavilion <br />
.. 2010 OCT Design Museum <br />
The Courvoisier Design Award <br />
Wallpaper .. 2009, the Design Vanguard<br />
Award Architecture Record .. 2007,<br />
the China Award Architectural Record <br />
.. 2005 DFA Grand Award Special Award<br />
for Culture, Hong Kong ..2008 Special<br />
Merit Award UIA and UNESCO .. 1989<br />
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New York Florian<br />
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Delft University of Technology <br />
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Graduate School of Design, Harvard University<br />
Jing Liu Master of Architecture <br />
Tulane University <br />
Columbia University Parsons the New<br />
School for Design Idenburg <br />
Liu SO-IL Kukje Art Gallery <br />
Seoul, Frieze Art Fair tent New York City, the<br />
Linked Community Center The Netherlands<br />
UC Davis campus <br />
SO-IL the AIA<br />
Young Practices Award .. 2010 AIA<br />
New York Design Awards Kukje Art Gallery<br />
Logan’s ofces .. 2011 2012<br />
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China. 2013.<br />
08 SO-IL: Spiky, Beijing,<br />
China. 2013.<br />
09 SO-IL: Jing Liu<br />
10 SO-IL: Frieze Art Fair,<br />
New York, USA. 2012 and<br />
2013.<br />
11 DBALP: Hotel De La<br />
Paix, Cha Am Beach,<br />
Thailand. 2008.<br />
12 DBALP: The Naka,<br />
Phuket, Thailand. 2013.<br />
13 DBALP: Duangrit<br />
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DBALP H1 Boutique Mall, Costa Lanta Resort,<br />
X2 Kui Buri Resort, Hotel De La Paix <br />
Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC)<br />
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The Jam Factory <br />
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ARCASIA Award for Architecture ..<br />
2556 ARCASIA Gold Medal .. 2548,<br />
the <strong>ASA</strong> Award .. 2547 .. 2549 <br />
The UK’s FX Award .. 2543<br />
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The <strong>ASA</strong> Forum is a much-anticipated annual<br />
event and this year Assistant Professor Dr. Rachaporn<br />
Choochuey and Associate Professor Tonkhao Panin are<br />
serving as the main organizers of the 2014 forum. The<br />
Forum will be held on the 3rd and 4th of May 2014,<br />
and 6 world famous architects, each of which have<br />
taken various approaches toward building architectural<br />
structures, have been invited to attend.<br />
On the 3rd of May 2014 there will be 3 lectures<br />
including those from Toyo Ito from Japan, Pei Zhu from<br />
China, and SO IL from the United States; as for the 4 th<br />
of May 2014 the lecturers will include Duangrit Bunnag<br />
from Thailand, Bevk Perovic from Slovenia and TYIN<br />
Tegnestue from Norway. As always, the <strong>ASA</strong> Forum is<br />
a venue that allows for the presentation and exchange<br />
of ideas in regards to architecture that reflect the<br />
various methods employed in different corners of the<br />
world, with a belief that this variety of ideas could be<br />
the driving force that enables the creation of architectural<br />
structures that are both clear cut and powerful<br />
as well as suitable for specific situations and capable<br />
of allowing society to keep up with the complicated<br />
dynamics of the present world.<br />
Toyo Ito is a Japanese Architect and has gained<br />
acceptance through his innovative and conceptual<br />
designs. He established his own studio in Tokyo named<br />
Urban Robot (URBOT), a name that was later changed<br />
to Toyo Ito & Associates Architects back in 1971. In<br />
1979, the projects of Toyo Ito reflected a search for<br />
integration amongst forms, structures, empty spaces<br />
and nature in the context of a building or structure. This<br />
creativity led to the creation of projects that people<br />
were not previously acquainted with. Some examples<br />
of his architectural works which gained significant recognition<br />
include the Sendai Mediatheque, Serpentine<br />
Pavillion Gallery,TOD’S Omotesando Building and Tama<br />
Art University Library. Toyo Ito has been recognized and<br />
received many awards including The Pritzker Architecture<br />
Prize in 2013, The Royal Gold Medal from the Royal<br />
Institute of British Architects in 2006 and The Golden<br />
Lion for Lifetime Achievement at The Venice Biennale<br />
in 20<strong>02</strong>.<br />
Pei Zhu is a leading Chinese Architect who set up<br />
his Studio, Pei-Zhu in 2005 in Peking. The purpose was<br />
to find a way to design things in a manner that aligned<br />
with the present context of the environment and met<br />
its proposed challenges, especially in the urban areas<br />
of China. The architecture of Studio Pei Zhu restored<br />
life to older vicinities and also promoted activities in<br />
public places. Parts of the shapes of the structures can<br />
be seen to have received their inspiration from the<br />
perfection of nature. The works of Studio Pei Zhu appear<br />
both within China and internationally with projects<br />
such as the Cai Guo-Qiang Courtyard House Renovation<br />
in Beijing, Digital Beijing Olympics Control Center in<br />
Peking, Venice Biennale Chinese Pavilion in 2010 and<br />
OCT Design Museum in Shenzen serving as a few to<br />
take note of. He received many awards such as The<br />
Courvoisier Design Award from Wallpaper in 2009,<br />
the Design Vanguard Award from Architecture Record<br />
in 2007, the China Award from Architectural Record in<br />
2005, DFA Grand Award and Special Award for Culture,<br />
Hong Kong in 2008 and Special Merit Award from UIA<br />
and UNESCO in 1989.<br />
Solid Objectives-Idenburg Liu, or SO-IL, is a design<br />
studio that was established in New York in the year<br />
2008 by Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu. The works of<br />
SO-IL are related to the creation of an experience<br />
through a design process not limited by size or stages.<br />
SO-IL have developed their works through a process of<br />
selecting ideas through consideration for the probability<br />
of various paths and an interpretation of them into<br />
objectivity, thereby arriving at a clear-cut concept. The<br />
main architects of SO-IL are Florian Idenburg, who<br />
completed her education from Delft University of<br />
Technology, Netherlands and served as an assistant<br />
professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard<br />
University and Jing Liu who received his Master of<br />
Architecture from Tulane University and served as a<br />
professor of architecture at Columbia University and<br />
Parsons the New School of Design. Some examples<br />
of the architectural works of Idenburg and Liu under<br />
the name of SO-IL include Kukje Art Gallery, located in<br />
Seoul, Frieze Art Fair tent in New York City, the Linked<br />
Community Center in the Netherlands and the art<br />
museum at the UC Davis campus. The projects of<br />
SO-IL have received many awards such as the AIA<br />
Young Practices Award in 2010 and the AIA New York<br />
Design Award for the Kukje Art Gallery and Logan’s<br />
offices in 2011 and 2012.<br />
Khun Duangrit Bunnag is an architect and the<br />
Managing Director of the design studio Duangrit<br />
Bunnag Architect Limited (DBALP). Khun Duangrit<br />
completed his architectural education at Chulalongkorn<br />
University in 2532 (1989) and worked with Architects<br />
49 Limited for 9 years before continuing his studies<br />
at the Architectural Association School of Architecture<br />
(AA) in England. When he returned to Thailand he set<br />
up DBALP in 2541(1998). The works of DBALP encompass<br />
many types and sizes of designs and especially<br />
those of hotels, resorts and bungalows. They reflect<br />
the usage of a combination of contemporary styles of<br />
forms and shapes as well as utilization of empty spaces.<br />
The outstanding projects of DBALP include H1 Boutique<br />
Mall, Costa Lanta Resort, X2 Kui Buri Resort, Hotel De<br />
La Paix in Luang Prabang and Thailand Creative and<br />
Design Center (TCDC) in Bangkok and Chiang Mai.<br />
Khun Duangrit’s interest in various aspects of integrating<br />
design and commerce are further reflected in The Jam<br />
Factory project located in Khlong San. Khun Duangrit<br />
Bunnag has also received many design awards including<br />
the ARCASIA Award for Architecture in 2556 (2013),<br />
ARCASIA Gold Medal Award in 2548 (2005), the <strong>ASA</strong><br />
Award in 2547(2004) and 2549(2006) as well and The<br />
UK’s FX Award in 2543 (2000).<br />
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Toey Community Lantern,<br />
Bangkok, Thailand. 2011.<br />
18 TYIN tegnestue: Cassia<br />
Co-op Training Center,<br />
Sumatra Indonesia.<br />
19 TYIN tegnestue: Yashar<br />
Hanstad and Andreas G.<br />
Gjertsen<br />
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Bevk Perovic Arhitekti is an architect studio that<br />
was established by Matija Bevk and Vaso Perovic in<br />
1997 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and focuses on a variety of<br />
architectural works that include residences, institutes,<br />
public buildings and bungalows. The many various<br />
projects of Bevk Perovic arhitekti can be interpreted<br />
as following a similar simple and rigid approach in a<br />
manner that allows for a profoundness of structure that<br />
appears clean cut yet extremely energized, together with<br />
this the empty spaces create a constructive engagement<br />
with activity - aspects that reveal the overall direction<br />
of contemporary Slovenian architecture. Some of the<br />
most notable architectural works of Bevk Perovic<br />
Arhitekti include the Ob Rinzi Elementaty School, Royal<br />
Netherlands Ambassador’s Residence, Faculty of<br />
Mathematics at the University of Ljubljana, Congress<br />
Center Brdo, the Cultural Center of European Space<br />
Technologies of KSEVT and the many residential<br />
projects located in the city of Ljubljana. These projects<br />
have enabled Bevk Perovic arhitekti to receive many<br />
national and international awards including the European<br />
Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture-Mies<br />
van der Rohe Award in 2007. In addition to these accomplishments,<br />
both architects set up the T5 Project Space,<br />
a public area that is used for the exchange of ideas in<br />
relation to art and design in Ljubljana.<br />
Andreas G. Gjertsen is one of the co-founders who<br />
established TYIN tegnestue Architects, a group of<br />
architects from Trondheim, Norway well known for their<br />
architectural designs that meet the basic necessities<br />
depending on the limitations of the actual situation that<br />
is presented. Hence, the architectural works of TYIN<br />
often appear in areas that are under-developed and aim<br />
to improve the quality of life of communities in locations<br />
such as the rural areas of Thailand, Burma, Haiti and<br />
Uganda. The projects depend on the labor available on<br />
hand provided by the communities themselves, as well<br />
as local raw materials, allowing for the community itself<br />
to serve as an integral part of the design and construction<br />
process for the projects. Therefore, the creative<br />
architectural styles employed reveal an exchange of<br />
expertise between the communities and architects<br />
and reflect solutions that are often a necessity due to<br />
the actual space availability and budgets, yet succeed<br />
in harmonizing beauty into the design as well – a combination<br />
that thereby supports both ecological and social<br />
sustainability. TYIN’s approach utilizes student volunteers<br />
and the capital that is received from personal donations<br />
together with support rendered from various agencies.<br />
The outstanding projects of TYIN include Soe Ker Tie<br />
House and Safe Haven Library in Taak Province and<br />
Klong Toey Community Lantern located in the Klong<br />
Toey community of Bangkok. The architectural works<br />
of TYIN have received many awards such as the European<br />
Prize for Architecture in 2012, Global Award for<br />
Sustainable Architecture in 2012, WA Awards 10 th Cycle<br />
in 2012 and Best of TIDA, Eco and Conservation Award<br />
in 2010.<br />
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As for organizing the <strong>ASA</strong> TALKATIVE and seminar<br />
this year, the committee members began by asking a<br />
question: ‘Architects: who are they, what work do they<br />
do and where are they?’ This may seem like a simple<br />
and straightforward question, but finding the answer is<br />
quite a difficult task and depends on the understanding<br />
and experience of the person posed to answer.<br />
The organizers of this seminar feel that they should<br />
provide an opportunity and create an experience for<br />
the attendees of the seminar so that they may better<br />
understand the architect’s profession. The seminar<br />
emphasizes 2 groups, the first of which includes architects,<br />
architectural students and other related professionals<br />
and the second of whom is comprised by the<br />
general public, a delineation aimed at allowing for them<br />
to gain a greater knowledge and understanding of the<br />
roles and duties of the architectural profession.<br />
The seminar on Friday 2 nd , May 2014 is divided into<br />
three parts:<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> TALKATIVE-Part 1<br />
'Future of the Architects'<br />
Time: 13:00-15:30 at the Jupiter Room<br />
With a society that is rapidly changing and falling<br />
further into a design that is more ‘ready-made,’ it is no<br />
longer necessary to search or ask questions - all that<br />
must be done is for one to draw upon the present<br />
media as a means of immediately finding answers.<br />
However, the answers that we get have not been proven,<br />
or may not even be true. This unfortunate reality has<br />
led many to neglect the essence of life and conduct<br />
themselves in such a way that relies on what is called<br />
the ‘ready-made’ formula. One might notice that we<br />
are surrounded by the word 'How-to' and now, when<br />
we turn back to look at the profession of an architect,<br />
or more specifically an architect who has just started<br />
work (5 years or less) and architectural students, we<br />
find that they also have what we call the ‘ready-made’<br />
questions on hand- such as ‘How do we find a job?<br />
How do we find a way to be compensated sufficiently<br />
for our designs? How do we go about opening an<br />
office?’ With plenty of questions at hand, they actually<br />
lack the knowledge and inspiration needed to progress<br />
forward. Therefore, by holding a panel discussion<br />
(fraternizing) on this topic, the hope is to provide<br />
present architects with an opportunity to inspire other<br />
architects or the new generation of architectural<br />
students- so they may further carry out the profession<br />
for themselves and for society as well in the best way<br />
possible.<br />
The 4 people and topics who are a part of this panel<br />
discussion/ fraternizing seminar include:<br />
1. Tawan Wongsawan- the moderator of the panel<br />
discussion/ seminar<br />
2. Dr. Porn Wiralruck- architects are everywhere<br />
3. Khun Boonchai Thienwang- architects can<br />
choose their jobs/work<br />
4. Khun Chana Samphalang – Architects…Architects<br />
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<strong>ASA</strong> Talkative Part 2<br />
'Theory, Aesthetics, Secrets, Ways of Tonsilp Studio'<br />
Time : 16:00-18:30 at Jupiter Room<br />
When we talk about architects we often think of<br />
people and organizations who are outstanding and<br />
talented and one of the names that must be included<br />
in this group is ‘TonSilp Studio.’ Some may not be well<br />
acquainted with the name, but if we refer to the fact<br />
that they designed the Duriyaang Silpa (Orchestral Hall)<br />
Building at Mahidol University, you will definitely know<br />
who they are and you will be even more baffled to<br />
find out that while many of their works have received<br />
awards, there is only one employee behind it all and<br />
that is Khun Chatree Ladallitsakul. Khun Chatree’s<br />
works are nationally acclaimed and every piece melds<br />
together a hidden philosophy within and Thai architectural<br />
style resulting in the utilization of space in a very<br />
impressive way.<br />
“As I have had an opportunity to teach the subject<br />
‘Professional Practice’ in various universities and with<br />
my experience of running an office, I feel that there are<br />
more and more questions that require what we call a<br />
‘ready-made’ formula. The students have started to feel<br />
that this profession generates a low-income and will<br />
not be able to support them financially-thereby leading<br />
to more and more queries from them. Therefore we<br />
have found interesting examples and have set up this<br />
panel discussion. As for Khun Chatree, he will elaborate<br />
on ‘Theory, Aesthetics, Secrets, Ways of Tonsilp<br />
Studio’ –this will be a very enriching discussion as he<br />
will share the method of working & reveal to us various<br />
secrets of his work as well” described Woraphoj<br />
Techaumnuaysuk in regards to the panel discussion,<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> Talkative.<br />
“I see the difference between the two parts – in<br />
the first part we will talk about inspiration and methods<br />
used to train in this profession, as for the other section<br />
by Khun Chatree, this is where we will find out about<br />
the real life of an architect.”<br />
Other than the aforementioned discussions<br />
regarding various viewpoints in relation to working as<br />
an architect, another part of the seminar has been set<br />
up for the general public and will be held on Saturday-<br />
Sunday 3-4 May 2014.<br />
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<strong>ASA</strong> Talkative Part 3 on 18 frequently asked questions<br />
Time 14:00-15:00 At the Activity Field (Hall)<br />
The general public still believes that work related<br />
to architecture is not related to them, and, even more<br />
so, when we talk about the majority of architects, the<br />
public also thinks that this profession is one that they<br />
cannot be easily linked too. Therefore, this seminar will<br />
allow passersby and members of the general public<br />
to gain a better understanding of the ways in which<br />
architecture surrounds them and will reveal to them<br />
the fact that architects are present in every circle/field.<br />
18 frequently asked questions will also be addressed<br />
in a similar panel discussion format that is organized as<br />
a seminar over these 2 days. Some of the questions<br />
to be addressed include: ‘How do we start working<br />
with architects? Engineers and Architects, are they the<br />
same thing? Is using an Architect overdoing it?’<br />
“Medicine- if you are sick you can go out and<br />
purchase medicine by yourself, you do not have to<br />
depend on a pharmacist, but if you ask yourself if you<br />
are confident enough to have chosen the medicine<br />
that you have just bought on your own, what would be<br />
your answer? If you are not familiar with a disease or<br />
sickness we rely upon the advice of a pharmacist, or at<br />
times even go to a hospital if the sickness is quite critical.<br />
Similarly, if you want to extend/ expand your house<br />
you have several choices - you can do it by yourself, or<br />
hire sub-contractors to do it for you- I am not saying<br />
that it is necessary to hire architects but you have to<br />
understand what an architect does and can do. As for<br />
the architect, we can compare him/her to a doctor.<br />
You have to understand that when you walk into an<br />
architect’s company it is like walking into a hospital – I<br />
would like to recommend that the public should know<br />
and understand themselves and also where the architect<br />
stands,” described Woraphoj while explaining the<br />
importance and benefit of discussion on this particular<br />
topic.<br />
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<strong>ASA</strong> Conservation exhibition showcases achieved<br />
missions and activities of the Arts and Architectural<br />
Conservation Committee, the Association of Siamese<br />
Architects and the Architectural Heritage Conservation<br />
Network. For <strong>ASA</strong> ’<strong>57</strong>, several interesting conservation<br />
projects are featured along with 9 small exhibitions.<br />
The first one is the Architectural Conservation Awards<br />
2014, the event, which has been held for 32 consecutive<br />
years, features a great variety of award categories such<br />
as Building, Local Community, Individual and Organization,<br />
etc. “One of the projects that I find beautifully<br />
distinctive is the new building of the Metropolitan<br />
Waterworks Authority, and there are may others that<br />
are just as great.” said Pongkwan about the works<br />
participating in this year’s event. The highlight of 2014<br />
is the exhibition, Borderless Conservation: Mahatera<br />
King Udumbara Memorial Ground at Amarapura. With<br />
the site located in Myanmar and almost demolished,<br />
the association has been a part of this challenging<br />
conservation project protecting Thailand’s historical<br />
ground. “The content encompasses the exhibition<br />
of the ancient objects we found at the site, and the<br />
process that took place from the negotiation we had<br />
with Myanmar’s authority, asking for their permission<br />
by proposing the conservational approach that would<br />
be employed to the development of the area. It’s a<br />
win-win project for everyone. We get to preserve the<br />
two country’s sharing heritage site, and Myanmar<br />
gets to put another cultural tourism destination and a<br />
historical learning centre on their map.” In addition to<br />
the aforementioned, on Sunday, 4 th May 2014, <strong>ASA</strong> ’<strong>57</strong><br />
will be hosting a talk under this topic with Burmese<br />
archaeological architects participating the discussion.<br />
Another interesting exhibition is the From Amarapura :<br />
Drawings of Yodia Architectural Heritages. “At the time<br />
of the excavation, Associate Professor Teerasak<br />
Wongkhamnan, our specialist in architectural sketches<br />
and drawings was also there as one of the team<br />
members. He did some great drawings of the site’s<br />
surrounding architecture, which bears some interesting<br />
details of architectural blend between Myanmar and<br />
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Thai architecture.” Another project expected to complete<br />
in the April of 2014 is the conservation project initiated<br />
by the Association of Siamese Architects with Dr. Vasu<br />
Poshyanandana, the chairperson of Arts and Architectural<br />
Conservation Committee (Traditional Thai Architecture<br />
division) as the supervising director. The work will be<br />
showcased as the exhibition under the name Upsornsawan<br />
Worawiharn Temple’s Scripture Hall Conservation<br />
Project. “The exhibition shines the light on the methods<br />
and procedures of architectural conservation that is the<br />
result of skillful and knowledgeable architects and<br />
artisans from different fields of artistic and constructional<br />
practices. This particular conservation team was also<br />
the winner of Asia Pacific Heritage Award for their work<br />
on Theptidaram Temple’s Scripture Hall Conservation<br />
Project back in 2012.” A talk under the topic 'The Young<br />
Plants of Thailand’s Architectural Conservation' will be<br />
held as part of this exhibition on Sunday, 4 th May 2014.<br />
Another enthusiastically participated project is the<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> Network’s activity, Vernadoc, supervised by<br />
Assistant Professor Sudjit Sananwai. With overwhelming<br />
interest from both local and international<br />
participants, and support from the Association of<br />
Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage and <strong>ASA</strong><br />
VERNADOC Projects, the project focuses its interest<br />
on vernacular documentation, the ancient method<br />
where architectural heritages are documented using<br />
basic hand-drawing and sketching technique, which<br />
has been acknowledged as one of the greatest tools<br />
that help creating a great deal of awareness in the<br />
values of architectural heritages among young, new<br />
generation architects.<br />
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Another Vernadoc-related exhibition is Architectural<br />
Heritage Conservation of Bang Luang Canal area. “This<br />
project, under the supervision of Dr. Worasit Tantiniphankul,<br />
is the collaboration between the association and<br />
the Architectural Heritage Conservation Network where<br />
architectural students from King Mongkut's University<br />
of Technology Thonburi and Rajamangala University of<br />
Technology Thanyaburi did a Vernadoc survey, data<br />
collection and documentation of the Bang Luang Canal<br />
neighborhood, which encompasses the area from Talat<br />
Plu district, Bangluang Artists’ House, Kumpang Temple<br />
to Bangjak district. The obtained data will be used and<br />
developed into a neighborhood revitalization program<br />
in the future.” A talk about this project will be held on<br />
3 rd May 2014.<br />
The cultural mapping of Bangkok’s riverside cultural<br />
areas is the project led by Assistant Professor Niramol<br />
Kilsrisombat of UDDC (Urban Design Development<br />
Center), who worked together with architecture<br />
students from the Department of Urban Planning,<br />
Chulalongkorn University, conducting a fieldwork and<br />
survey in Wang Derm neighborhood (the area around<br />
Wat Arun Ratchawararam Ratchawaramahawihan<br />
Temple). The exhibition also features the conservation<br />
project of Talat Noi area by Arsom Silp Institute of the<br />
Art with the community’s Sow Heng Tai Residence as<br />
the highlight of the program.<br />
Last but not least is one of <strong>ASA</strong> ’s regular activity<br />
where organizations within the Architectural Heritage<br />
Conservation Network such as ICOMOS Thailand<br />
Association and An Nimmanhemin Foundation will<br />
showcase their works and projects, and there will also<br />
be a booth by the Conservation Club selling t-shirts and<br />
souvenirs.<br />
“The role of architects in Thai society does not<br />
revolve only around the aspect of design, but also<br />
architectural heritage conservation and management,<br />
which is considered one of our most significant responsibilities.<br />
If real-estate developers or the governmental<br />
sector want spatial developments of geographical<br />
spaces to take place effectively and tangibly, they must<br />
be aware of the importance of architects who are properly<br />
trained to manage projects with complex cultural areas<br />
for they are one of the most significant factors contributing<br />
to the increased values of real-estates and the<br />
city as a whole. Even in the highly challenging project<br />
such as Mahatera King Udumbara Memorial Ground in<br />
Myanmar, in which the site locates in an entirely different<br />
geographic boundary and political entity, the role of<br />
architects professes the ability to turn the deserted area<br />
that was almost demolished into a Thailand-Myanmar<br />
historical and cultural destination. I think it’s the<br />
achievement we can all be proud of.”, said Pongkwan<br />
with pride.<br />
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THEME <strong>ASA</strong> 79
SONGPORN SAISUWAN<br />
<strong>ASA</strong> AWARDS 2014<br />
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One of the activities continuously organized as<br />
a part of the Architects Expo is the announcement of<br />
outstanding works of architecture by the Association of<br />
Siamese Architects. The event is aimed at promo-ting<br />
and creating a push for the field of professional architecture<br />
design in Thailand in terms of growth and<br />
development towards international and worldwide<br />
recognition, as well as honoring the innovative contributions<br />
to the field through the creation of quality<br />
architectural designs for society at both national and<br />
international levels. The selection is held every two<br />
years in order to provide architects with an opportunity<br />
to build their portfolios during the selection period.<br />
Only architectural firms who are members of the<br />
Siamese Architects Association are eligible for submission.<br />
The submitted works must be a new design<br />
for a new construction or alterations or renovations<br />
completed before the submission deadline of March<br />
25<strong>57</strong>. Furthermore, works must have not been awarded<br />
for the selection of the Architectural Award for the year<br />
by the Association of Siamese Architects previously.<br />
In regards to the selected works, the Association will<br />
respectfully request an audience with the King to<br />
receive a royal certificate from HRH Princess Maha<br />
Chakri Sirindhorn and an honors and award plaque to<br />
be installed at the selected project.<br />
Songporn Saisuwan, one of the people behind this<br />
project, described that “For this award, we did not limit<br />
how many awards would be given in each category, or<br />
require that each category must have some award. For<br />
example, this year, there may be no winners at all in<br />
some categories; it will depend on the judges panel.<br />
In the year 2555, only 3 buildings received an award, as<br />
the panel is relatively strict. The recipients were ‘Baan<br />
Krungthep Kreetha’ by Architects 49 Limited, ‘Architect’s<br />
Building’ by Mr. Kritsada Pnitkoson in association with<br />
AR Bay Co. and ‘Cross II Resort (X2 KUIBURI)’ by<br />
Duangrit Bunnag Architects Limited. Under the policies<br />
of the President of the association, we would like to<br />
see more projects awarded this year, in order to help<br />
support the architects. One thing that will be different<br />
from last year is that, this year we have decided to use<br />
the same set of judges in every category, allowing for<br />
a common standard to he held across categories.<br />
Additionally, the judging committee will be changed<br />
each year. As architecture is a trend that changes<br />
constantly, using the same judges panel consecutively<br />
would not be suitable. The main criteria the judging<br />
panel will consider is that the architecture is memorable<br />
and can be used effectively accordingly to its purpose.”<br />
Consideration for the <strong>ASA</strong> Awards, divided into 9<br />
different categories:<br />
1. Single House,<br />
2. Residential Building,<br />
3. Commercial Building,<br />
4. Hotels, Resorts and Recreation Building,<br />
5. Institutional Building or Religious Building<br />
6. Building with Special Structure or Construction<br />
Method (sports center, stadium and airport, etc.).<br />
7. Industrial Building<br />
8. Energy-saving Building and Environmentally<br />
Friendly Building<br />
9. Renovation of an Existing Building<br />
“Many people may be wondering about the<br />
categories, which are very similar and could be seen to<br />
overlap. For example, some Special Structure buildings<br />
could also fall into the category of an Industrial Building<br />
and an Energy-saving Building might also fit within<br />
the Residential or Commercial Buildings categories as<br />
well. But, we cannot completely take out any category,<br />
because each building has its own prominent features.”<br />
Khun Songporn added.<br />
The award is divided into two categories: 1.<br />
Architecture Award for Outstanding Association of<br />
Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage 25<strong>57</strong> and<br />
the annual Award for Architecture worthy of publishing,<br />
Association of Siamese Architects under Royal<br />
Patronage Year 25<strong>57</strong>. The first round of the awards will<br />
be held on Sunday, March 23, 25<strong>57</strong>. After that, there<br />
will be a presentation of selected works to the committee<br />
and visits to the real locations between March 24 and<br />
April 20, 25<strong>57</strong> to support the verdict prior to officially<br />
announcing the outstanding architecture award at the<br />
Architects Expo <strong>57</strong>.<br />
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THEME <strong>ASA</strong> 83
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The Handy Home Exhibition was held for the second<br />
time this year at Architect‘14, with a difference in<br />
theme and appearance from that of the previous year.<br />
Pol.Lt.Gen.Dr. Bundit Pradubsook explained that, “Last<br />
year, we cooperated with the Thai health Promotion<br />
Foundation to build a 7x10 m. universal design house<br />
for Architect‘13. The house’s components reflected an<br />
idea of universal design that was accessible for older<br />
people, people without disabilities and people with<br />
disabilities. The components, such as a ramp, table,<br />
chair and dining room were designed especially to be<br />
wheelchair accessible. Nevertheless, there was also a<br />
wardrobe with adjustable clothes rack, a sliding toilet<br />
door with a big latch and rail beside it.”<br />
But, this year is different. “For Architect ‘14 we<br />
will focus on the concept of a ‘townhouse,’ a building<br />
typology that we commonly see in Bangkok and the<br />
suburbs. We will demonstrate how we can adapt the<br />
concept of a universal design into that of a townhouse”<br />
Bundit described.<br />
Other than the exhibition, the association is also<br />
trying to push the idea of ‘Universal Design’ into the<br />
curriculum of undergraduate architecture programs.<br />
Several examples of buildings that have adapted<br />
this concept into their designs include A1 Hotel,<br />
Pattaya in Chonburi and Samrongnhua city’s municipality<br />
office in Samutprakarn, which won the universal<br />
design competition last year. “This year, we will also<br />
arrange a competition, right now we have four buildings<br />
that need to be examined and approved,” Bundit<br />
explained.<br />
“Universal Design is a design strategy for all, it<br />
represents neutrality in our society that can be afforded<br />
by those of all social statuses. We will strive to push<br />
this concept forward not only within this exhibition, but<br />
within the real buildings as well, making the spaces<br />
both accessible for the users and more sustainable,”<br />
described Bundit.<br />
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NATTAWUT <strong>ASA</strong>WAKOVITHWONG<br />
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Commission, which is a new commission that was<br />
established in October of 2556, joined the Expo under<br />
the name <strong>ASA</strong>-CAN. <strong>ASA</strong>-CAN references a group that<br />
took part in creating awareness for architecture and<br />
the role of social architects toward the community<br />
and society for some time previously under the name<br />
CAN (Community Act Network). This year, we have<br />
organized activities that are linked with the Architects<br />
Expo in 3 parts: 1) Project Workshop Khlong Takok 2)<br />
Community Act Network Exhibition 3) Seminars and<br />
activities.<br />
PROJECT WORKSHOP KHLONG TAKOK<br />
This year we have a main objective of facilitating<br />
grounds for learning to design for the community and<br />
society amongst architecture students and young<br />
architects. We have created the event for these two<br />
groups in order to provide them with an opportunity<br />
to actually try their hand at designing work in this area<br />
and experience what it means to work in architectural<br />
services within the community. The requirement is to<br />
design a community center and find ways to improve<br />
the environment within the community based on the<br />
needs of the people residing in the Khlong Takok community,<br />
Bang Pu district, Samut Prakarn province. This<br />
area was originally considered to be a slum, but has<br />
seen recent improvements in the residential communities<br />
and creation of better homes and walkways.<br />
However, even with these improvements, the area is<br />
still lacking a community center and there are some<br />
other minor environmental issues that should be<br />
addressed as well, considering that the area is directly<br />
connected to the mangrove forest.<br />
We have been working in cooperation with two<br />
leading architecture firms for this activity, Architect Kidd<br />
and Shma. It is an honor to have these architects and<br />
landscape architects on board, as well as our senior<br />
mentors who helped with conveying the concept of<br />
the design to the architects who have been working in<br />
the community previously such as Sook Architects and<br />
Openspace. 12 students from various institutions will<br />
be joining the activities, and they have been divided<br />
into two teams. One team will focus on designing a<br />
community center to meet community needs and the<br />
other will focus on utilizing the design to sustainably<br />
improve and support the environment in a manner that<br />
is consistent with the local context.<br />
THE <strong>ASA</strong>-CAN EXHIBITION CONSISTS OF THREE<br />
PARTS:<br />
1 Exhibition of four decades of Community<br />
Architecture<br />
This exhibition will showcase the project development<br />
process of community architects over 4 decades<br />
by projecting images of community architectures from<br />
three eras consisting of:<br />
The pioneering era - which reflects the architect’s<br />
own questioning of their role towards society by focusing<br />
on solving problems in slums.<br />
The community-building era - which reflects<br />
improvement in the skills of the architects in working<br />
with the community in terms of physical and financial<br />
attributes, as well as assisting in the appointment of<br />
villager organizations.<br />
The expansion era - which reflects the opportunity<br />
for community architects to work under a very open<br />
public policy, and the expansion of the role of architects<br />
in handling the physical attributes of a diverse community<br />
in terms of both context and quantity.<br />
2 Exhibition of Community Architects Work<br />
This exhibition presents the works of community<br />
architects in Thailand and Asia in different contexts<br />
including residential, conservation and disaster relief as<br />
well as other tools that the architects used in order to<br />
work successfully with the community.<br />
3 Exhibition of community center design<br />
workshop, Khlong Takok, Samut Prakarn.<br />
This is an exhibition portraying the designs of the<br />
community center of Khlong Takok, a collaborative<br />
project previously worked on under the joint efforts of<br />
a group of architects and students. The exhibition brings<br />
the results of these designs to be displayed at the exhibition<br />
space <strong>ASA</strong>-CAN, which will project, step-by-step,<br />
the process of working with the community.<br />
SEMINARS AND ACTIVITIES<br />
In regards to the seminars, the major discussion<br />
will be focused on the topic of Design Activism, and an<br />
important keyword - ‘Inspiration.’ The participants in the<br />
seminar will include Theeraphon Niyom, National Artist<br />
for Architecture in 2556 who has worked in the area of<br />
social architecture for a long time. Another participant<br />
is an industry outsider, Sarinee Aachaoskul, a translator<br />
and an economist, and Tomon Sukpreecha, a columnist<br />
and writer who will discuss how people working outside<br />
the field of Architecture view architects working in this<br />
area and what they expect of the role of the architects<br />
working for the society and community.<br />
Another discussion promoting the exchange of<br />
ideas in regards to the Project Workshop Khlong Takok<br />
with a focus on an important keyword - ‘Reflection’<br />
will also be held. This discussion will allow for the<br />
architects and students who worked on the project to<br />
discuss and share their experience in working together<br />
with the Khlong Takok community to design the project.<br />
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CONVERSATION<br />
ADMIRAL THANIT KITTIAMPON<br />
THE PRESIDENT OF THE 80 YEARS <strong>ASA</strong> COMMITTEE<br />
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90 <strong>ASA</strong> ARCHITECT’14
August 28 th , 2014 will mark the day that commemorates<br />
80 years of the establishment of the<br />
Association of Siamese Architects under Royal Patronage.<br />
The volunteer journal publication department had<br />
an opportunity to talk with Admiral Thanit Kittiamphon,<br />
the president who has been organizing the activities<br />
for the 80-year anniversary celebration of <strong>ASA</strong>. Besides<br />
discussing the upcoming event, he also informed us of<br />
the association’s future plans for development.<br />
“On the occasion of the association reaching its<br />
80-year anniversary, I began thinking about what we<br />
could do for the association and found that there were<br />
4 areas which we could touch on- the first is that we<br />
will try and develop the association in the ‘physical’<br />
aspect, meaning that, the location of the Association is<br />
not very convenient for utilizing its services; therefore,<br />
we set up a committee, with the president of the committee<br />
being Mr. Prakit Phananuratana, and are now<br />
studying ways and methods of using the space, so that<br />
the members of the association can enjoy the utmost<br />
convenience and comfort.”<br />
“Together with this we are also developing on the<br />
IT front as well. Nowadays, social networking plays<br />
a big role in our daily lives. Following up on this issue<br />
is Captain M.L. Prakitti Kshemasanta, the president<br />
of the sub-committee who is studying various ways<br />
of finding methods to consider this issue so that the<br />
members can gain efficient access to various sources<br />
of information,” Admiral Thanit Kittiamphon described.<br />
In addition to developing the association’s physical<br />
aspects, public relations and finding effective ways to<br />
increase the dissemination of information to the public<br />
related to the Association are also very important.<br />
“The first question I asked when I came in as<br />
the Chairman of the Association was, as a member,<br />
how do I benefit from this? Therefore, communication<br />
and conveyance of information to members and the<br />
general public are very important, especially in relation<br />
to the architectural profession. For this task, I assigned<br />
Preecha Navaprapakul to serve as the president of<br />
the sub-committee and Dhanes Wongtun-yakorn as<br />
the counselor. We decided to set up an exhibition at<br />
the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre for two purposes.<br />
Firstly, to let the new generation of architects and<br />
general public gain a better understanding of this<br />
profession and, secondly, to glorify the works of Thai<br />
architects. Other than this exhibition, we are also<br />
trying to convey and communicate our purpose and<br />
objectives to different groups through the utilization of<br />
various media.<br />
Another activity that the Association is holding to<br />
commemorate the 80 th year of establishment is the<br />
celebration and glorification of architects.<br />
“We want to respect and glorify architects, and for<br />
those architects who have created great works or who<br />
have worked together on a continuous basis with the<br />
association, we have strived to do so on a regular and<br />
continuous basis. We also hope to motivate and inspire<br />
other good architects to want to work with the association<br />
as well.”<br />
This year I have invited Nithi Sthapitanonda, the<br />
former chairman of the Association and a Thailand<br />
National artist, to serve as the president of the selection<br />
of the sub-committee.<br />
We will also hold celebrations together with the<br />
exhibitions at the BACC, the preparations for both of<br />
which are currently being done by Smith Obayawat,<br />
the chairman of the Association.<br />
As the Association has been under the Royal<br />
Patronage of His Majesty the King for the past 80 years,<br />
we are also planning to hold an activity to design an<br />
architectural project to be dedicated to His Majesty the<br />
King as a means of showing our great appreciation for<br />
the royal grace that has been bestowed on the<br />
Association.<br />
“I have coordinated with M.R. Chakarot Jitraphong,<br />
the former deputy of the Ministry of Culture, whereby<br />
Smith Obayawat and myself held an audience with<br />
HRH the Princess who has the royal intention to let the<br />
Association study and design 47 schools, in Amphur<br />
Cha-am, Petchburi Province under Royal Patronage.<br />
These schools will be dedicated to His Majesty the<br />
King Bhumipol Adulayadej. Presently, we are in the<br />
stage of establishing a work committee to initiate the<br />
designs.<br />
Admiral Thanit Kittiamphon concluded by saying<br />
“For the past 80 years the Association has tried to hold<br />
activities, disseminate information and provide knowledge<br />
to its members, while upholding its main goal<br />
of aiding members in adjusting to the present modern<br />
world. Lastly, I hope that all members of the association<br />
will assist in developing the profession to progress<br />
even further, becoming a leader in this region as well.”<br />
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Embassy of Design Territory Co., Ltd took on the<br />
project of designing a new office building and interior to<br />
accommodate the company’s expansion. Though they<br />
originally planned to purchase an existing townhouse<br />
structure and renovate, the overall budget and limitations<br />
of such a structure simply did not answer to the<br />
firm’s spatial requirements. The site is now located on<br />
an existing parking lot near the old building.<br />
Embassy of Design Territory Co., Ltd is located on<br />
a 840 square meter plot of land at the end of Latphrao<br />
Soi 93. The company is one of the most prominent and<br />
earliest event and exhibition design firms in Thailand<br />
and, with a heavy workload year round, the staff tends<br />
to use the office as a second home. The management<br />
would like to accommodate these special habitat<br />
characteristics and create an office that is comfortable,<br />
open and creative with areas for the staff to meet<br />
and exchange ideas while working together, as well<br />
as develop the building to become a trademark of the<br />
company. The architects also stated a personal preference<br />
for barn-style buildings and spaces.<br />
The two-story building contains a reception area,<br />
meeting rooms, multifunctional space, kitchen, dining<br />
area, offices, library and a bedroom.<br />
BUILDING TYPE<br />
Office<br />
BUILDING AREA<br />
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DURATION<br />
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CLIENT<br />
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INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
Studio krubka<br />
COST<br />
9 Million Bahts<br />
96 <strong>ASA</strong> WORK IN PROGRESS
ELITE DECOR
X2 KAMALA<br />
NUZEN<br />
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BUILDING AREA<br />
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DURATION<br />
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CLIENT<br />
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PROJECT STAGE<br />
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LOCATION<br />
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STRUCTURAL ENGINEER<br />
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INTERIOR DESIGN<br />
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LANDSCAPE<br />
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limited, located in Kathu, Phuket. The brief was to<br />
design a hotel in the form of a contemporary villa by<br />
adapting the uniqueness of the natural landscape and<br />
topography directly into the design and allowing for<br />
the sea view to be taken in from some locations, not<br />
an easy task as the steep slope and big rocks posed a<br />
major problem in regards to the zoning arrangement.<br />
To achieve the quantity of units required and other<br />
necessary functions, the entire process had to be well<br />
planned and carried out with care.<br />
NUZEN compromised the simplicity of form and<br />
dynamic of the natural topography together by allowing<br />
the building to intervene into the existing context<br />
and green area. Furthermore, as X2 Kamala Phuket is<br />
another branch of X2 KUI BURI, striving to maintain<br />
brand identity within a completely new location posed<br />
additional issues that had to be considered during the<br />
design process.<br />
Other than space and function, mood and tone in<br />
architecture is another distinctive point of this project.<br />
Inspired by the natural surroundings, the selection of<br />
color palettes used for aesthetic management within<br />
the project. These selections of colors will be adapted<br />
into different locations and attempt to blend in with the<br />
surrounding context as much as possible. From the<br />
results of experiments and diagrams considering user<br />
behavior and characteristics of the context, NUZEN<br />
has made X2 Kamala Phuket into a user-friendly space<br />
that, at the same time, sits respectably amongst its surroundings,<br />
interwoven into the landscape through the<br />
use of the surface materials.<br />
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ASEAN<br />
THE VIBRANT<br />
NEIGHBORHOOD OF<br />
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1<strong>02</strong> <strong>ASA</strong> ASEAN
TEXT & PHOTOS<br />
Aroon Puritat<br />
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From the early 2000s onwards, Bangsar has become<br />
the neighborhood that welcomes the energetic<br />
presence of art and design crowds be it architects,<br />
landscape architects or graphic designers. The coming<br />
of these design workforces has caused a tremendous<br />
change to the community. Originally hosting an ordinary<br />
residential area, the neighborhood, which locates<br />
to the south west of Kuala Lumpur, had employees of<br />
Malayan Railways, including the folks of New Straits<br />
Times and Namg Yang Siang Pau newspapers as the<br />
first generation habitants.<br />
Kevin Mark Low is considered the first architect<br />
who moves into the area. He renovated a house on<br />
Jalan Tenggiri and gave birth to the Lightwell House<br />
in the early 2000s. Low executed the design of the<br />
house by reallocating the interior spaces, demolishing<br />
some parts of the wall in order to open the building’s<br />
mass to be visually and physically connected to the<br />
indoor garden. Materials such as locally manufactured<br />
bricks are used with the wall, accompanied by architectural<br />
elements such as exposed concrete roof and<br />
steel grate. The Bawa-influenced floor plan orientation<br />
focuses on the order of accessibility on spaces as well<br />
as the blurred lines between the green and architectural<br />
sphere. The thermal comfort of the building is<br />
created through the airy wall where natural air can be<br />
conveniently ventilated. Several of Low’s designs are<br />
conceived from sketches, and he uses them to work<br />
closely with contractors and artisans. In 2008, Low did<br />
a renovation of a townhouse for his graphic designer<br />
neighbor, Oon Soon Lim. He opened up the space of<br />
the house to enhance the natural airflow while handbuilt<br />
construction and onsite supervision were still<br />
Low’s favorite approaches that allowed the building to<br />
evolve through different stages of its renovation. The<br />
project took him two years to finish.<br />
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At the other end of Jalan Tenggiri Street, the<br />
landscape architect, NG Seksan kicked off his small<br />
hotel project, Sekepping Tenggiri. Even with a fairly<br />
large collection of contemporary art by Malaysian and<br />
Southeast Asian artists he has collected through the<br />
years, Seksan’s house/gallery still has some space to<br />
spare. He decided to renovate the house into a small<br />
boutique hotel where landscape architecture plays<br />
a significant part in the building’s interior space and<br />
architectural character. Trees are grown under the<br />
translucent roof, plants pots and crawlers on the walls<br />
and the presence of green elements in different spatial<br />
interfaces can be seen, from the roof, the open floor<br />
plan, outdoor space to restrooms in different units of<br />
the hotel.<br />
Bangsar neighborhood also hosts several other<br />
architectural projects of young architects who are still<br />
in their early 30s, such as Studio Bikin’s The Tenggiri<br />
House and The Kurau House. Both of these renovation<br />
projects exemplify Studio Bikin’s architectural style<br />
where landscape is incorporated to amplify the verdant<br />
atmosphere of the building, as one can sense a<br />
glimpse of Kevin Low’s use of brick wall and manipulation<br />
of architectural details. What makes Studio Bikin<br />
different are additional elements added to the work<br />
be it the concrete panels or different patterns of brick<br />
walls, ornamented door frames and steel handrails.<br />
Other groups of young architects such as Atelier Tetawowe<br />
and WHBC ARCHITECTS who, although favor<br />
the use of the thick and heavy mass of concrete, never<br />
neglect the attempt to insert the green element to<br />
different architectural compositions of the works such<br />
as roof or terrace. One of the factors influencing the<br />
similarities of architectural details of Bangsar’s emerging<br />
establishments and habitats is the contractor who<br />
is hired for several residential projects. Chong Beng<br />
Huat and his group of artisans are assigned to handle<br />
the construction of the projects designed by these<br />
architects and landscape architects. The coming of this<br />
creative crowd gradually results in the area’s changing<br />
architectural fabric as Bangsar has become the<br />
neighborhood that hosts a great amount of Malaysia’s<br />
contemporary residential architecture.<br />
From the mid 1990s onwards, the term Tropical<br />
Regionalism has been widely used in Southeast Asia’s<br />
architectural arena (Malaysia and Singapore, in particular)<br />
along with the development of the term Vernacular<br />
Architecture. Architectural concepts take on the more<br />
environmentally and locally conscious approaches<br />
especially the issue about the local climate. Nevertheless,<br />
the architectural approach that is based upon the<br />
notion of regionalism often times emerges as part of<br />
the genres of expensive and luxury houses or resort<br />
projects. The architectural style that puts the emphasis<br />
on forms be it the inclined roof structure, sun protection<br />
panels, wooden laths, or court, gears towards the<br />
issue of style rather than the surrounding context of<br />
the location (cultural, historical, social and political). As<br />
for the academic arena, the territory of Tropical Regionalism<br />
usually revolves around the conversation about<br />
the fight between Regionalist and Modernist instead of<br />
the discussion and consideration in other contexts that<br />
actually influence the existence of these architectural<br />
creations.<br />
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104 <strong>ASA</strong> ASEAN
THE EMERGING CONTEMPORARY<br />
ARCHITECTURE OF BANGSAR<br />
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INTERESTING PART OF MALAY-<br />
SIA’S CONTEMPORARY CULTURE,<br />
BUT ALSO ACTS AS AN ARCHITEC-<br />
TURAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE<br />
COUNTRY’S BOURGEOISIES.<br />
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106 <strong>ASA</strong> ASEAN
The emerging contemporary architecture of<br />
Bangsar does not only reflect an interesting part of<br />
Malaysia’s contemporary culture, but also acts as an<br />
architectural representative of the country’s bourgeoisies;<br />
a group of western-educated individuals who<br />
express their identities through their tastes in architecture.<br />
Under the image of a unified Islamic state, the<br />
Malaysian Government has enthusiastically called for<br />
the services from the world’s famous architects to help<br />
the country globalizing its locality (the famous Petronas<br />
Twin Towers and KLIA as two of the clearest examples),<br />
the new generation of Malaysian architects are<br />
not only battling with the increasing number of works<br />
of these internationally reputable architects, but they<br />
are also fighting to escape from the frame set out by<br />
the convention of Tropical Regionalism and contemporary<br />
architecture that often comes with sun protection<br />
panels, brick walls, steel door frames, wells and so on.<br />
Inspiringly and truthfully, these young creative minds<br />
are reconciling their works from being bounded by the<br />
cultural and environmental contexts of the place where<br />
their works are being created.<br />
Bangsar <br />
30 The Tenggiri Housec<br />
The Kurau House Studio Bikin <br />
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PROFESSIONAL<br />
TEXT<br />
Assistant Prof. Atch Sreshthaputra, Ph.D.<br />
Green Building or environmentally friendly building or eco<br />
building has been referenced as the new construction trend that is<br />
expected to become the foundation of every architectural design<br />
and construction in the world. Green will eventually become the<br />
mandatory design criteria for every designer and architect out there,<br />
for eventually they won’t be able to explain why their designs are not<br />
green, especially in the era where the environmental and climate<br />
changing issues are as critical as they are today. Despite the redundant<br />
discourse of green building we are all getting tired of, there<br />
will be the day that the concept becomes the basic standard that<br />
everyone has to follow, just like fire protocol is. Green will become<br />
the universal design: the ordinary ergonomics that is regarded as<br />
nothing out of the ordinary. When that day comes, we architects will<br />
be spending our time thinking about something different and new,<br />
rather than boasting how green the buildings we design are. And<br />
consequentially, our boredom for green concept will eventually be<br />
reconciled. For this article, I have accumulated several interesting<br />
pieces of information as well as obstacles and dilemmas found in<br />
the design and construction process of green building, including the<br />
research conducted about this area of architectural study over the<br />
past several years. This article will help everyone get ready to handle<br />
any possible issues that might come along as we simplify the notion<br />
of green building, transcending the ‘to green or not to green’ phase<br />
with no more concern for the level of greenness and the so- called<br />
‘green wash’ sensationalized by big corporations. With those things<br />
out of the way, we can all continue to make a living, struggling to<br />
fight for a more considerable design fee or whatever...sound good?<br />
There are 10 issues I would like to discuss, well, express my boredom<br />
about.<br />
The first question that comes to mind when the idea of green<br />
building is initiated is ‘How much more it is going to cost if we decide<br />
to go green?’. To tell you the truth, this question is very difficult to<br />
answer and I know this won’t satisfy everyone’s curiosity.<br />
But if I said 10-20 %, everyone’s happy because that’s probably what<br />
they have expected. But the cleverest answer has got to be “the<br />
increased costs all added up is still less than that what you’ll end up<br />
paying if your don’t turn your building green NOW.” I know it’s a bit<br />
rhetoric, since the question demands to know the increased costs,<br />
but here I am talking about how worthwhile it’s going to be. The cost<br />
of construction of a green building in percentage depends on what it<br />
is compared to, considering the difference in quality. To make things<br />
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even more complicated, you have to know how ‘green’ you want the<br />
building to be, and by that I mean - are you aiming for Silver, Gold,<br />
or Platinum? If the latter is what you’re striving for, I would have to<br />
say that the steel plate installed on the wall of the building may not<br />
be the best signifier of the level of ‘greenness,’ but more likely how<br />
expensive the building is. If you were to consider the building’s shell,<br />
the use of high-quality glass windows such as Insulating Low E is going<br />
to cost about 3 times that of the ordinary light-filtering laminated<br />
glass used for windows and openings of a normal building. But if<br />
you look at the lighting, LEDs are 8-10 times more expensive than<br />
T% bulbs, or if it’s an air conditioning system, an air conditioner with<br />
the highest energy saving efficiency (Energy Label No. 5 for Thailand)<br />
with an EER of 16 comes with almost a 30% higher price than a<br />
normal air con system with EER of 11. If you choose an aluminum<br />
sun protection panel, it will cost around 5,000 baht per meter. As<br />
for flooring materials, Linoleum is 4-5 times more expensive than a<br />
normal rubber tile. If you detest that super hot concrete road, and<br />
decide to go with a turf block, add 300 baht/1 square meter to your<br />
budget. If you want to install a wastewater recycling system as an<br />
add-on, prepare another 10 million baht for that. The same story goes<br />
with an ‘Eco’ toilet or water-saving faucet—these things come with a<br />
price to pay.<br />
This chart can be used to calculate the additional percentage of<br />
the construction costs, however, the following question is, if one<br />
were to conduct a VE (Value Engineering), one would find that everything<br />
is replaceable but at a dramatically different price. For instance,<br />
the materials from China can be unbelievably cheap, whereas the<br />
sun protection panels that can offer just about the same functionality<br />
can be incredibly different in price due to the materials that are used.<br />
A good building orientation; however, may not need both the expensive<br />
glass and sun protection panels in order to be ‘green.’ From my<br />
experience, the price of green building materials tend to decrease<br />
gradually, unlike the cost of labor, oil prices or inflation rates, and for<br />
that reason, the accurate increase of construction cost is not exactly<br />
the main issue we need to know in advance for a green building project.<br />
The budget control done through VE is a much more important<br />
issue. Let’s not forget that a green building’s VE is the VE that covers<br />
the Life Cycle Cost (LCC), which includes monthly electrical and water<br />
bills throughout the building’s 30-40 year life cycle. To obtain the<br />
usable evaluation, annual inflation rates and energy escalation rates<br />
must be added into the calculation. VE has to be more than the evaluation<br />
of Initial Cost, since a comprehensive VE offers a much clearer<br />
picture of what ‘penny wise and pound foolish’ would look like.<br />
GREEN<br />
TEAMWORK:<br />
INTEGRATED<br />
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LEED <br />
(Integrated design)<br />
<br />
(Design charette) -<br />
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EIA <br />
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O<br />
ENERGY COST<br />
Fuel<br />
Eletricity<br />
25,000,000<br />
20,000,000<br />
$<br />
15,000,000<br />
10,000,000<br />
5,000,000<br />
0<br />
Base Case Silver Gold Platinum<br />
01 <br />
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<br />
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<br />
112 <strong>ASA</strong> PROFESSIONAL
2<br />
Integrated design <br />
Design Build <br />
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<br />
(<br />
EIA OTTV ) <br />
<br />
Integrated design <br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
(energy simulation) <br />
<br />
<br />
-<br />
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<br />
<br />
( <br />
) <br />
<br />
OTTV RTTV <br />
safety factor <br />
<br />
<br />
A green building consists of a wide rage of elements, and they<br />
are all considered to be the responsibility of every member of the<br />
involved design personal (architect, engineer, landscape architect,<br />
interior designer, lighting designer) as well as foreman, contractor,<br />
inspector and building manager. Those who are familiar with green<br />
building projects, where the goal is to collect as many points from<br />
LEED as possible, will know that the working schedule of architectural<br />
projects in Thailand is headed by an architect, who usually acts as<br />
a mediator between the owner and other working units, coordinating<br />
to get all the working drawings together before submitting them for<br />
a construction permit. This alone brings tons of headaches, and if the<br />
goal is to design a green building, in which a submission will also be<br />
made to acquire a LEED label, Integrated design is definitely the way<br />
to go. Taking such a collaborative approach allows everyone to cross<br />
check responsibilities and design charette. This particular process is<br />
different from the way in which working drawings are done separately<br />
before they are put together and submitted for a construction<br />
permit, EIA or pitching competitions. When the working drawings<br />
are done separately, surpluses become somewhat of a tradition; for<br />
instance, the engineers have to design and calculate excessive use<br />
of air conditioners, water and electricity because they do not know<br />
what kind of material the architects will use for the building’s shell,<br />
or what type of toilet the interior designer is going to choose, or how<br />
much water will be needed, or which light bulbs the lighting designer<br />
will use, or how the landscape architect will design the garden including<br />
the amount of water required for the maintenance.<br />
Integrated Design can be quite a challenging task to accomplish<br />
in Thailand considering the Design Build convention where the less<br />
mandatory details such as the landscape, interior design, fittings<br />
and glass specifications are often done after the construction takes<br />
place. In many cases, before interior designers or landscape architects<br />
begin to work, the project has already been granted a permit<br />
and the construction has already begun, leaving the opportunity<br />
for Integrated Design to help making the building ‘greener’ behind<br />
(luckily, EIA is now demanding to see at least OTTV data). In terms<br />
of energy savings, it is evident that the factors for Integrated Design<br />
to successfully bring about a standardized green building stem from<br />
a collaborative approach among the involved design personnel.<br />
Data regarding materials used for the building’s shell, air conditioning<br />
system and lighting system have to be put together for energy<br />
simulation. The results will be analyzed in order to find the most<br />
suitable and effective energy saving solution. Such an approach can<br />
be rather time-consuming and experts working on the project have<br />
to be allowed a sufficient amount of time to work on it. Often times,<br />
the schedule is not properly planned, and not enough time is given<br />
for the results to be used as part of the decision making process that<br />
could potentially lead to the best design solution. In many cases,<br />
the issues are neglected and it is not until after the construction is<br />
completed that the aftermath, such as the building’s irregular thermal<br />
level, starts to reveal its presence. Building owners begin to realize<br />
how wasteful the electricity that must be spent on an air conditioning<br />
system in order to keep the interior comfortably cool is and this<br />
is not even to mention the additional expenses of installing window<br />
film. Warning: an architect can end up being sued for not designing<br />
the standardized heat prevention according to the building laws and<br />
regulations such as OTTV and RRTV. You may also end up paying for<br />
the film that you failed to include in the design in the first place - especially<br />
if your luck runs out, and the engineer forgets to design the<br />
building to have enough to spare for safety factors. If the architect’s<br />
finalized working drawings are legit, but the air conditioning still can’t<br />
provide the standardized thermal comfort level, the fault can fall on<br />
the system engineer instead.<br />
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PROFESSIONAL <strong>ASA</strong> 113
GREEN<br />
MATERIALS<br />
(Material Science) <br />
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Precast <br />
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(Arsenic) <br />
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(Rapidly<br />
renewable materials) <br />
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<br />
(Recycled<br />
materials) (Recyclable<br />
materials) <br />
Cradle to Cradle <br />
Celebrity () <br />
William McDonough <br />
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<br />
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<br />
20-30 <br />
<br />
<br />
40-50 <br />
<br />
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<br />
Post-tensioned <br />
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<br />
<br />
50 ‘’<br />
(Nutrients) <br />
<br />
‘’ <br />
Recycle <br />
(Reuse) <br />
<br />
<br />
(<br />
……) <br />
<br />
O3<br />
the heat protection performance of a brick wall, concrete block wall<br />
Material Science is rarely a subject that most Thai architects and<br />
building constructors get to study in school. A lot of architects cannot<br />
give a comprehensive explanation of the heat and humidity transfer<br />
of a building’s walls, nor can they tell the difference between how<br />
and a precast wall can vary. Today, the technological development<br />
of materials has progressed considerably with additional elements<br />
and chemicals being used, and many of them come with names<br />
that architect and designer folks have never even heard of, nor are<br />
they aware of their toxic properties. Most of us didn’t take chemistry<br />
class in school, and god forbid if we don’t really know that the stuff<br />
used for coating bamboo for termite and insect prevention actually<br />
contains arsenic; the very same substance used for poisoning Napoleon.<br />
And we thought using bamboo was going to be friendly for the<br />
environment!<br />
How many of us know what ‘Hemp’ really is and why do we<br />
have to import the stuff to be used with a green building simply<br />
because we are told that it’s a rapidly renewable material when it’s<br />
a plant that can be found locally in the North of Thailand? No one<br />
seemed to care about Hemp before until it was developed and used<br />
with the Royal Project’s products such as carpets and curtains.<br />
Nevertheless, there are several other issues to be discussed about<br />
material science and green building from recycled materials to recyclable<br />
materials, which are very different. The book ‘Cradle to Cradle’<br />
by William McDonough, a famous architect that most Thai architects<br />
do not know much about, gives the idea by pointing out that even<br />
though something is made of recycled paper, the binding adhesive,<br />
color printed cover, glossy coated pages and synthesis ink could<br />
make the book impossible to recycle. Mainly because it’s incredibly<br />
difficult to sort out the materials used for the book. 20-30 years from<br />
now, this book will be no different from other un- recyclable garbage<br />
that is ready to pollute the environment with toxic elements.<br />
As for buildings, no one has really thought about how, within<br />
40-50 years, the materials we used for green buildings will eventually<br />
become a massive pile of concrete junk. Perhaps we should be thinking<br />
about designing a modular structure that can be systematically reassembled<br />
when buildings are dismantled. If you ask a civil engineer,<br />
many are now not that willing to use prefabricated structures since it<br />
is so much easier to use Post-tensioned, regardless of the fact that<br />
the materials used for this type of structure will end up being nothing<br />
but wasteful, un-recyclable trash.<br />
114 <strong>ASA</strong> PROFESSIONAL
GREEN<br />
CONSTRUCTION:<br />
POLLUTION CONTROL<br />
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<br />
O4<br />
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<br />
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<br />
What the construction industry of Thailand needs is green buildings<br />
‘today’ not ‘tomorrow.’ It seems like no one really cares what<br />
kind of nutrients the building will turn out 50 years from now. Will it<br />
be the healthy kind of nutrients that are beneficial for new buildings<br />
constructed in the future? The criteria of a Green label, therefore,<br />
shines a light on the price one has to pay to be green and stay green,<br />
which is most of the time disturbingly expensive. But where does<br />
the money go? Well, mostly to the recycling industry rather than to<br />
the support of the creation of products that can really be reused. It<br />
is quite common to see old furniture left behind when a company<br />
moves offices as most owners would prefer new furniture (made<br />
with recyclable materials of course..) and couldn’t care less how<br />
much trash they have created in the world.<br />
The determination to accomplish a green building project can’t<br />
really end in front of a computer screen. A construction process that<br />
is conscious of cleanliness and pollution reduction is often neglected.<br />
People tend to think that everything public, be it the roads, sewers or<br />
the air that we breathe are theirs to use (or pollute). The basic principle<br />
of clean construction, according to the general standard of green<br />
building, is “a construction that does not pollute the areas surrounding<br />
the site.” In Thailand, issues concerning wastewater, construction<br />
debris, scrap materials, and concrete contamination in public sewer<br />
systems are always neglected. The constructional standard of green<br />
building indicates that every contractor must follow the set working<br />
plan, which includes inspection and speculation of the amount of<br />
wastewater and rainwater, as well as the inclination of the site and<br />
how the water will be drained, in which direction, and as a result, a<br />
septic tank system must be built to prevent the polluted water from<br />
getting out of the site. It is the contractor and foremen’s responsibility<br />
to figure out a solution to this issue. It is not the owners or<br />
architects’ burden to tell them what to do. The common scenario<br />
today is, however, to take prescriptive methods where contractors<br />
expect owners or architects to tell them what to do, and if the site is<br />
still contaminated and not clean, the responsibility now falls on the<br />
owner who failed to inform them of the issue (sigh…). Nevertheless,<br />
if owners take on a performance-based method, the contractor folks<br />
will refuse to follow the deal, claiming that it’s something they have<br />
never done and that they don’t know how to do the quotation and so<br />
on. If this is the case, then a lot of so-called green buildings out there<br />
shouldn’t be calling themselves green buildings after all. Their ‘greenness’<br />
exists only on paper and computer screens. Ultimately, the<br />
ones who take responsibility for cleaning up the pollution are every<br />
taxpayer out there. The Polluter Pays Principle is neither applicable<br />
nor practical in Thailand, because corruption in government agencies<br />
allows for the bad guys to continue doing bad things, and tax money<br />
will continue to go down the drain, like it always has.<br />
To be continued in the next issue.<br />
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PROFESSIONAL <strong>ASA</strong> 115
CARTOON<br />
SRV<br />
120 <strong>ASA</strong> <strong>ASA</strong> CARTOON