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Renderings for design of the “Adaptable Gallery” competition, London. Studio ELEVATION, in collaboration with OVERDOSE Graphic studio Bangkok, has come up with an idea of a floating, fabric-skinned “cloud” that contracts and extrudes, thus ever-changing. In addition, the movements are to be powered by tide energy collected by the hydraulic mechanism under the raft(barge) on which the gallery is situated.

All images copyrighted by studio ELEVATION

Koh-Kaew-Games (Prisma Island Game), mixed media (ink on tracing, digital).  Work by artist Joe Chatrasingha.  Inspired by the classic folk poetry “Praapaimani,” by late World-honored Thai poet Soon Don Pu, the work portrays the scene in which the mermaid of Prisma Island races to rescue Praapaimani from the Sea Demoness, fighting off all obstacles along her way.

Go go!  The strong athletes of Siam!  You’ll always be remembered, with or without a medal!

Thanks to the nice tourist lady for a very natural post.

Besides its renowned “Church of Light,” this here is a shot taken at the Osaka Castle. 
Osaka is a city rich with culture and architecture, a major economic hub of Japan, yet not as “lost” and catastrophic as Tokyo.  As you can see there are still many peaceful space where nature can play around among built environment.

More sketches done “Napkin-style,” mostly on Starbucks napkins, used papers, travel tickets, etc. by Bangkok-based architect cum artist Joe Chatrasingha.  These series were done mostly during the trip to Japan, due to the cultural discourse in the artist’s mind’s eye between his native Thai and toyish, graphical “O-taku” culture of Japan.

If there should be any sport events to be held in Bangkok, it’d be most appropriate to spare us those elephant, Siamese Cat or the recent irrational bunny mascots.  We all know strayed dogs are everywhere in this Metropolitan city, thus no wonder they’re the unsung identity of Bangkok.  Go go!  Doggie!  Make yourselves be known and jurisdicate the bias!

This is where the flyover confronts the row-houses at Bangchak Community’s natural market.  The flyover’s structures act as a fore layer (note the torn posters  above looking auspicious), and the overall elements one composition of dots, lines and planes.

WANFA House+Gallery Shop, or the ‘House of Insight’ was designed for a spectacle shop owner on the suburban plot outside of Bangkok.  The design intention was to build under limited budget.  The house divided into two sections, the shop and the house, whereas the house was dominated by the internal tree court resembling Thai traditional house, with crossover bridge to the bedrooms, from the shopfront the bridge and the tree can be seen.  There’s an elapse of time when public and private spaces connect and merge through the visual ‘gateway.’

“Catter The Venus” is a traditional Siamese Cat. She likes fishes, and she means fishes, not fillet burgers! After visiting Japan, I wish Thai art, design and architecture can become more accessible. Japanese they transform their legendary and mythical creatures into cute, consumable products and art.  

An experimental architectural project in Bangkok. The theme is “Bangkok: Re-packaging urban row-houses.” The facades of the worn-down row-houses are being re-animated, treated like installation art consisted of numerous treated wooden crates used for cargoes, picked up from the near-by Bangkok Port. And afterall, this project is GREEN!