PLAI•BOONYANUT•SIMMARA
ENVIORNMENTAL DESIGN │ VISUAL DEVELOPEMNET
Kiara Looro
Free Play
The school embraces the concept of FREEPLAY where children are allowed to learn on their own in a safe space. The area utilizes both deep and wide axes, by tilting volumes it creates corners that could be filled with functions or gives opportunity to join areas between them. The many learning stations make it so that the learning area does not dictate where the child will learn or face towards. Walls tilt both upwards and downwards so that natural light and the outdoors is constantly visible to the children. The building also opens itself to the community by using the canteen as an open space for activities.
Plant Plastica
Plastics are one of the major sources of pollution in today’s world, and there are several measures to recycle them, for more wonderful results rather than wastes that are toxic towards our environment. Our project’s brief is to architecturally utilise the plastics as main structure for the module, that could be easily replicated for mass production in order to tackle the issue caused by the material on a larger scale. Hence the name Plastica.
Miang Tea House
Located in the mountainous region of Chiangdao at 1,000m elevation, the Raming Tea Estate in the Mae Taeng district of Chiang Mai is famous for organic tea production by the Lahu ethnic people. The Ramming Tea Estate and Joshua Kaiser, the CEO and Founder of Rishi Tea, offered INDA to convert an old lookout building (24 sqm) at the tea plantation into a Tea Tasting Pavilion to encourage tea culture and tea education within the local Lahu community. INDA Y3 of the year 2024’s design, will focus on keeping the existing timber stucture while incorpuating the concept on “ichigo ichie” elements to create an adjustable tea space. The space should reflect the local context such as, craft, culture, landscape, tea lifestyle, local materials and construction patterns.
