Infinity Ground : Thailand and Taiwan Contemporary Architecture

interface for humans and the environment. Among these four architecture
firms’ works, Ground Exchanges not only presents the diversity of architecture
and land, but its projects also show the way of future living directions:
togetherness, ritual, native, and porosity.
In the second chapter “Feeling Grounds”, the architect takes the environment
as a design solution and combines materials, craftsmanship, and tectonics
to present a multi-dimensional sense of ground space. First of all, in
Arsomsilp Community and Environment Architect’s Puey Ungphakorn
Centenary Hall (2019) and Tha Chalom Sky Boat Library (2022), the building
continues the landscape surface and combines functional attributes to
form a micro-ecological system that is harmonious with the ground, and
the placed space effectively activates the original environmental interface
and evokes the unique value of the place. Second, in Ambi Studio’s Hushan
Reservoir Archaeological Exhibition Hall (2023) and Yuhsiu Museum of Art
(2015), the building conforms to the topography to provide visitors with
an unusual viewing path. In the detour circulation, the materials and the
environment create an impressive scene. Then, The Commons Thonglor
(2016) and Sala Bang Pa-In (2021) by the Department of ARCHITECTURE
combined meticulous architectural craftmanship with floating and elevated
forms to create more “ground gray spaces” to flow the indoor-outdoor
interface, and they also reflected the multifunctional “Tai toon” of traditional
Thai houses. Fourth, in Atelier Or’s Sparkling Market (2021) and Pavilion
for Hsinchu Bus Station Plaza (2018), the small and light structural columns
release the heavy visual constraints of typical buildings so that the internal
and external spaces can be integrated. Among these four architecture
firms’ works, Feeling Grounds endows the architecture with empathy for
nature. The project not only shows the building as an interface between
humans and the land but also provides reflections on the environment:
extra-ordinary, nostalgic, vernacular, and boundaryless.
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